Example sentences of "[be] now [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 So , too , had Hawke 's own navigating officer , who having warned him of the dangers was firmly told : ‘ You have done your duty in this remonstrance ; you are now to obey my orders .
2 It is understood that councillors who voted in favour of the motion are now to consult with the Department of the Environment over the legality of offering waste collection free of charge to Orange halls .
3 It says those who use radioactive material , mainly in medical or biological research , are now to flush waste down the drains or put low level solid waste out for normal dustbin disposal .
4 FUW leaders are now to lobby the UK Government and the EC in a bid to ensure they continue the level of current spending on the scheme .
5 On the other hand , foreign words that already end in s , x or z — all legitimate plural endings in French — are now to remain invariable .
6 They are now to admit women to orders , orders which they themselves have rightly filled over the centuries .
7 ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes .
8 According to IBM Corp , which is busy trying to salvage and make sense of its core business , we are now to think of the mainframe as the complete server .
9 Moreover , instead of these cash limits being set one year ahead they are now to cover the whole planning period ; that is , three years ahead .
10 The argument we are now to consider tries to show that this assumption ( characteristic of a weak scepticism ) is false .
11 Right so even , even landlords , within this absolute egalitarianism policy , are now to get land .
12 They were now to withdraw to corridors with a width of 3 km , along ( i ) the 315-km road , rail and oil pipeline running through central Mozambique to the port of Beira ; and ( ii ) the 540-km railway along the Limpopo river from the Zimbabwean border to Mozambique 's capital , Maputo .
13 The decade began with the American Library Association 's Standards for school library programs , which gave a very thorough rationale for the new type of services the school libraries were now to support :
14 However Crete was invaded the day before the arrival of 800X at Malta , where they were now to remain , attached to 830 Squadron , and were to play the role of night intruders , attacking airfields in Sicily with 20 lb. bombs .
15 To my mind , it would be a stylistic improvement if Community legal texts were now to abandon the use of the word ‘ whereas ’ for the purpose of introducing their recitals .
16 If so , I can not think that your Lordships would do right , if you were now to reverse , as erroneous , a judgment of the Court of Appeal , proceeding upon a doctrine which has been accepted as part of the law of England for 280 years … .
17 The young earls who attended the Dunstable tournament were now to take a leading part in Edward 's wars , and with a new generation of earls came a new strategy .
18 Elections to the National Assembly were now to take place through the direct and secret vote of the population — deputies having previously been elected by members of each of the country 's 14 provincial assemblies ( which were popularly elected ) from among their own members .
19 On the other hand , businesses in the Midlands and North which qualified for UBR reductions were now to receive them more quickly .
20 It was in the Cup that Northampton were now to make the headlines .
21 The main objectives were now to abolish poverty among children and halt the decline in the birth rate .
22 The same ship had brought two 16-pounder , two 12-pounder and two eight-pounder [ 7.3 , 5.5 and 3.6-kg ] guns , which were now to prove their value .
23 If we were now to consider the many sonnets of celebration of the Friend where the Thou outweighs the I we would find a similar dedication to the other without , I feel , any disabling by modern tastes — self-abnegation .
24 His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller .
25 To date , LanOptics has used distributors such as Datarange Communications Ltd , but following the establishment of the UK company , it is now to sell direct where it feels this is more strategic .
26 It was considered as wrong then as it is now to embezzle the Crown 's revenues .
27 Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead .
28 It is now to go before Hambleton District Council .
29 The task is now to create a new ‘ culture of education ’ in which curriculum is better supported and understood by the community .
30 Can I just clarify , what , what you 're saying is that in a sense there is this overall aim of getting through to socialism but the means of getting there have now changed so that we 've gone from absolute egalitarianism , which is , is an immediate step tow towards socialism you 've gone away from that and the position is now to create a rich peasant economy in order to industrialize , in order to get through to collectivization , I E into socialism .
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