Example sentences of "are now a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gardens are now a mixture of municipal bedding and 19C specimen trees , all somewhat disfigured by eye-level lollipop lighting . |
| 2 | Says a spokesman : ‘ Competitors are claiming hand-helds are now a part of fashion , but we do n't see it like that . |
| 3 | Like it or not , American mink are now a part of British wildlife . |
| 4 | On the positive side , the changes inside the Soviet Union will help : with the unprecedented flowering of Jewish cultural freedom , Hebrew classes are now a possibility ; potential immigrants can now learn more about Israel before they come . |
| 5 | A number of activities that were closed to him before — such as camping and sailing — are now a possibility . |
| 6 | ’ — And yet we hear that you are now a Merkut also , ’ Artai observed tartly . |
| 7 | The Desertas are now a bird sanctuary . |
| 8 | And we are now a quarter way through a four-year development plan ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You are now a minister 's wife ’ , he enjoined her , ‘ and must now so far forget your father 's house as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners . ’ |
| 10 | My unhappier memories are now a generation old and , thankfully , much of the starch seems to have gone out of youth hostelling . |
| 11 | They no longer strike you however quite as ramparts because they have been planted with grass and shrubs and are in places penetrable on foot or even by traffic ; they are now a pleasance more than a deterrent . |
| 12 | U.S. titles are now a phone call away . |
| 13 | As Ulster Unionist security spokesman , Ken Maginnis , said this week : ‘ Loyalist paramilitaries are now a mirror image of the IRA . |
| 14 | These personal line drawings of the author 's family are now a tradition with this scribe , reflecting his work before he trained as a calligrapher . |
| 15 | Erm sea boundaries are now a bit more complex because the law of the sea has been changing erm over recent decades . |
| 16 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 17 | NHS dentists are now a rarity in parts of London and the Home Counties — this is one effect of the new dental contract introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 18 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 19 | The upshot is that London currency derivatives have completely disappeared , currency futures are now a monopoly of the CME while currency options are split between the CME and Philadelphia . |
| 20 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 21 | There are now a lot of low-cost ‘ share shops ’ we can deal through as well . |
| 22 | There are now a number of stretching devices on the market . |
| 23 | Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect . |
| 24 | Many strains of Bacillus thuringiensis , for example , are insect pathogens because they produce insecticidal chemicals and , as Payne ( 1988 ) has discussed , there are now a number of commercially available strains which are used to control a variety of insects . |
| 25 | There are now a number of Baptist churches among the gypsies also . |
| 26 | Fortunately , there are now a number of assessment instruments designed to utilise spontaneous speech samples , and some of these suggest coding utterances direct from a tape without the need for transcription . |
| 27 | There are now a number of books and articles on Portage — the National Foundation for Educational Research ( NFER ) publishes Portage books and materials . |
| 28 | There are now a number of types of specially protected areas including national parks , Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) , nature reserves , Heritage Coasts , green belts , Areas of Great Landscape Value , country parks , forest parks , and Sites of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 29 | There are now a number of other women artists groups here in Berlin and in Germany . |
| 30 | There are now a number of routes to obtaining a qualification in the field . |