Example sentences of "is now the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bitter is now the premier beer style in England and Wales . |
| 2 | My silver birch , a fine form of Betula pendula , is now the tallest tree in the garden at 25ft , yet 16 years ago it was a seed gathered from a moss-covered stump on Birk Crag . |
| 3 | It is now the sectors which sponsor investment in track and signalling as well as rolling stock , that must deal with the modernisation of stations , and so on . |
| 4 | 90 per cent availability is now the norm , and there have been weeks when the 150/ 2 series , arguably the most reliable diesel trains ever to have run in Britain , have attained 100 per cent availability during the daytime . |
| 5 | This station and line is now the subject of a multi-million pound investment scheme . |
| 6 | But there appears not to have been , for instance , any of that sterile rivalry between man and wife which is now the bane of middle-class society with any claims to cultural or intellectual interests ; plainly Mrs Lowndes and the young matrons who were her friends did not seethe resentfully at having their intellectual and imaginative capacities shackled to kitchen and nursery , whereas their husbands could exercise theirs in the great world . |
| 7 | Since Sean Lineen changed nationality to win four caps last season , every Kiwi migrant is now the subject of intense scrutiny and great expectations . |
| 8 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is now the custodian of national standards on emissions from such plants , of which Britain currently has three . |
| 9 | The Australians won their first VC of the campaign in a tank battle outside a village called Marjayoun in the south of the country which is now the headquarters of Israel 's proxy South Lebanon Army militia . |
| 10 | It is now the subject of a bitter dispute between the neighbouring republics . |
| 11 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 12 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |
| 13 | In the end she proved , and many women police officers are proving , that it is now the men who are holding on to their apron strings . |
| 14 | Writing in Language Matters , a newsletter issued by the Associated Examining Board , Sir Alfred argues : ‘ English is now the world language . |
| 15 | Penrhyn is now the largest quarry in the world , and 30,000 tonnes of rock a week are gouged out of the Carneddi mountains — 6 per cent of the world 's slate output . |
| 16 | Over in Nancy , Simone Weber , the so-called ‘ Devil of Nancy ’ , is now the undisputed record-holder for imprisonment on remand . |
| 17 | The central point is that he and his advisers recognise that this is now the main task . |
| 18 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 19 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 20 | Roddick experienced her first taste of trading as a child while serving in the family café in Littlehampton in Sussex , which is now the centre of her worldwide retailing empire . |
| 21 | The Hippodrome Theatre is now the home of the Royal Ballet and the Alexandria Theatre boasts the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company . |
| 22 | The church of St Peter , Vauxhall , was built between 1863 and 1865 on part of the area formerly occupied by the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens ; its altar is on the site of the Neptune Fountain , and the late-eighteenth-century house which adjoins the church and is now the vicarage was originally the home of the manager of the gardens . |
| 23 | The Greenhouse Effect is now the e world 's most pressing environmental problem . |
| 24 | Egerton was impressive in England 's win over Fiji last weekend and , with Wasps ' Dean Ryan recovering from a broken arm , the Bath player is now the only realistic candidate for the No.8 position . |
| 25 | I particularly enjoyed the contributions of Wally Serote , the black poet and writer who is now the ANC 's cultural representative in London , and who never lost his cool once . |
| 26 | Rest is now the accepted cure . |
| 27 | In September agreement was held up when the then Chancellor , Mr Nigel Lawson , seemed reluctant to allow any change in the IMF 's structure which resulted in a drop in Britain 's position as the second largest shareholder within the Fund , even though it is now the sixth largest market economy . |
| 28 | There is now the danger that the same media circus will be dispatched to Sardinia next summer looking for the same headlines which will produce a similar outcome . |
| 29 | An astonishingly frank , and therefore pessimistic , view of Soviet history is now the basis of instruction in Soviet schools . |
| 30 | Dedicated to demonstrating and popularising alternative , sustainable ways of using energy — sun , wind and water power — it is now the second most popular tourist attraction in Wales , drawing 1,000 visitors a day in the summer . |