Example sentences of "is now [adj] that " in BNC.
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1 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
2 | It is now dear that Waite 's involvement was peripheral and that he was used by North as a cover to conceal the true reason for Jacobsen 's release . |
3 | The grosser absurdities of the consultative document have disappeared , and it is now apparent that the cross-curricular elements ( those aspects of learning that will not slot into the conventional ‘ subject ’ boxes yet are still too important to be left to chance ) are going ( somehow ) to be retained . |
4 | It is now apparent that too much weight has been attached to tool using . |
5 | It is now apparent that poor readers can be meaningfully divided into two groups . |
6 | Moreover , following a study that failed to show superiority of intravenous nutrition over polymeric feeding or oral food with parenteral supplementation , it is now apparent that complete bowel rest is not essential for achieving remission in acute Crohn 's disease with nutritional treatment . |
7 | I hope it is now apparent that soft conventionalism is not really a form of conventionalism at all in the spirit of the tripartite distinction among conceptions we are now using . |
8 | It is now probable that despite conservation measures — China budgeted $895 million on this in 1981 — there will be shortages until 1985/6 . |
9 | It is now elementary that the tort of negligence involves three factors : a duty of care , a breach of that duty and consequent damage . |
10 | LATE NOTE : It is now possible that this will have to be switched to the Public Hall . |
11 | Although many of the stories are exaggerated accounts , and were once thought to be only legends , there is now proof that giant squid do exist . |
12 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
13 | It will not do to paint Themistokles as Kimon 's opponent on the issue of foreign policy principles — that is , as a medising Sparta-hater — and thereby to seek to explain his ostracism in 471 : it is now certain that very many ostraka were cast against him in the early 480s when his patriotism was not in question . |
14 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
15 | For it is now certain that she left Shrewsbury on the cart that was returning with gifts from the devout to our needy and afflicted abbey . |
16 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
17 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
18 | It is now certain that Malta 's coach , Pippo Psaila , could not predict what Scotland 's team will be , for the simple reason that even Roxburgh does not know the answer to that one yet . |
19 | Ernest Gowers , a very far-sighted man , had no hesitation in suggesting a separate council for Scotland and this is what happened ; it is now inconceivable that there could be any other arrangements . |
20 | He is now upset that it is not our policy and keeps saying that the views in it must be the views of Ministers . |
21 | It is now critical that investment begins again in both people and equipment , otherwise smaller UK manufacturers will not remain competitive in international markets and capture the business which is necessary to increase the country 's employment and wealth . ’ |
22 | It is now essential that an output model is adopted with the student achievements being expressed in competency terms . |
23 | Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ? |
24 | So let us look at the present day , and to take this wording , do you consider that it is now appropriate that Skelton should expand any further ? |
25 | But the degree of sensitivity on this issue is now such that the emigration of a single Serbian individual or family is blown up to a national crisis . |
26 | The law is now such that the courts will restrain a local authority from spending public funds on any purpose not authorised by law . |
27 | The state of the microscopist 's art is now such that the choice of instrument to use depends largely on what he wants to see , and in some applications the acoustic microscope may give him the sharpest pictures ever . |
28 | The capacity and flexibility of desk-top computers is now such that the optimal sharing of processing , storage and presentation of material between computer and operator may well be quite different from the traditional combination of human memory and material on paper . |
29 | It is now well-recognised that the development of tourism is having massive effects on the built and physical environment of many countries and areas . |
30 | Said Mr Robinson : ‘ Several views were aired and it is now important that we all try to push in the same direction to the benefit of the club . ’ |