Example sentences of "is now [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This grew into what is now Braidwood Schools for the Deaf . |
| 2 | The vision of Arthur Guinness had been realised and the foundations laid for the building of the international organisation that is now Guinness Brewing Worldwide . |
| 3 | He is now ambassador to the United Nations in New York for the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea . |
| 4 | The price cuts are 9% on notebooks , including the Contura 3/25 at $1,500 , the 3/25c at $2,000 and the colour Lite/25c at $3,000 ; 15% on desktops , so that the cheapest 80386 desktop model without a screen is now $750 and the Deskpro 486 is $1,400 ; the Pagemarq printer is now $2,600 . |
| 5 | There is now evidence that misting the flowers with water , formerly thought to help setting , can in fact be counter-productive . |
| 6 | However , there is now evidence that the mechanism responsible for this can act in a similar fashion in some normal individuals ; as one would expect these are people high in schizotypal traits . |
| 7 | These characters may be homologous with those of the orang-utan , or with those of the African apes and humans , but not with both as there is now evidence of independent derivation of orang postcranial characters from the other great apes . |
| 8 | There is now evidence that the bulge is elongated in a direction that lies in the plane ; the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy . |
| 9 | There is now evidence both that the police charge some children and not others ( Cigourel , 1967 ; Parker et al. , |
| 10 | Until recently acetylcysteine was not recommended for use more than 15 hours after overdose , but there is now evidence that it can safely be given to patients up to 24 hours after ingestion and perhaps even later than this . |
| 11 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Does the Secretary of State accept that there is now evidence that standards in the basics , which the report identified as the key skills on which other learning depends , have fallen ? |
| 13 | The major source of the neutralising capacity of saliva is its bicarbonate content , but there is now evidence that gland bearing oesophageal mucosa can also secrete alkali , a phenomenon first documented in the opossum esophagus in vivo . |
| 14 | There is now evidence that the basement membrane-like matrix of the liver can change the phenotypic characteristics and growth of lipocytes , endothelial cells , and hepatocytes . |
| 15 | A barricade was built at what is now Barracks Fold to seal off the infected area , and anyone crossing it was threatened with death . |
| 16 | Another Coral made an encouraging seasonal debut last month when going down by seven lengths to Tipping Tim at Cheltenham — a race in which he also finished second last year — and is now 11lb better off with that rival . |
| 17 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 18 | In a neat piece of role-reversal , Lewis , who went on to become the Wales Under-21 coach , is now Jenkins 's assistant at Stradey . |
| 19 | A high-end configuration with 520Mb , 16Mb RAM , 19-inch colour monitor , single-slot GX accelerator , Sunsoft Inc 's Solaris 1.1 , Motif , X11R5 and UK-based IXI Ltd 's X.desktop 3.0 is now $9,000 , down from $10,700 . |
| 20 | A high-end configuration with 520MB , 16MB RAM , 19-inch colour monitor , single-slot GX accelerator , Solaris 1.1 , Motif , X11R5 and X.desktop 3.0 is now $9,000 , down from $10,700 . |
| 21 | Professor Tim Brighouse , formerly of Oxfordshire is now Birmingham 's Chief Education Officer . |
| 22 | If we believe , and many of us do , in unitary local government — one door to knock on and one set of people to hold to account — we must give them something to do other than riding around in a civic car pretending that they are important and delivering nothing , responsive to no demands , not aspiring to change and improvement , and not even doing what the Conservatives of old did in the Chamberlain era when there was the sort of socialism that is now anathema to the Tory party . |
| 23 | The rate for Buildings insurance has been increased by 10p per £1000 Sum Insured which means that the rate for standard cover is now £1.60 per £1000 sum insured . |
| 24 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 25 | The average house price , according to the Halifax sample , was £30,952 in 1984 and is now £60,837 . |
| 26 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 27 | He was Limerick Area Secretary 1978–86 and is now Waterford Area Secretary . |
| 28 | THis works is now 95% completed . |
| 29 | As Her Majesty 's Government have based their aid to Kenya on progress being made on the political front , presumably there is now scope for increasing that aid to a country which is an island of stability in a troubled area . |
| 30 | The Piazza della Scala was created in 1859–60 when several old buildings between what is now La Scala and the Palazzo Marino were pulled down . |