Example sentences of "may now be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Fed up with the snail-like pace , the market yesterday began to entertain the possibility that the group itself may now be on the block . |
2 | This idea may now be on the way out . |
3 | In The Selfish Gene I speculated that we may now be on the threshold of a new kind of genetic takeover . |
4 | An effective solution to the problem may now be at hand . |
5 | Losing 1–0 , 5–3 and 2–0 to Redland Park Avenue , Botham Wanderers , and Twitchit Albion respectively means that promotion may now be beyond our grasp . |
6 | Whereas it was hoped that this would be brought to the Council by the end of November , it may now be into 1993 before the first draft is presented to the Planning and Development Committee . |
7 | Although the worst of the depression may now be over there will be a longer-term impact on compny profits , said Dr Richard Roberts , construction economist with Barclays Bank . |
8 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
9 | Costs may now be under control , after 750 redundancies and the Washington office closed along with cuts in New York and London . |
10 | Stuck fast in the mire : Ford 's at Dagenham may now be in a state of terminal decline . |
11 | Equally controversial has been the recently-introduced Employment Contracts Act that has drastically undercut the powers of the trade unions — to the extent that New Zealand may now be in breach of International Labour Organisation provisions . |
12 | There are grounds therefore for believing that superpower activity in the Middle East may now be in a phase of decline . |
13 | No one the police may now be in close contact with since you are missing . |
14 | If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer . |
15 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
16 | Carbon monoxide has no smell and if your appliance has n't been services for some time you may now be in danger . |
17 | Having said this , I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature . |