Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] now [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often she had passed the stone house where he lived with his children , some of whom must now be grown . |
| 2 | Collectively these three initiatives encompass the main thrust of the post-1979 managerial approach in central government , each of which will now be examined in turn . |
| 3 | Teachers and LEAs could not keep track of this deluge , little of which can now be recalled by practitioners in any detail . |
| 4 | Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects . |
| 5 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 6 | It would be wrong to claim that Darwinism had no impact on the study of what would now be called ecological relationships , but the impact was indirect . |
| 7 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
| 8 | The argument continued into the following year , Samuel Whitbread being deluged with medical journals and copies of letters in support of what can now be recognised as an untenable position i.e. that the stomach in this case had ‘ really taken up in some measure the office of the kidnies ( sic ) ’ . |
| 9 | It was an impressive demonstration of what can now be done . |
| 10 | I had learnt German at Dartmouth where I had specialized in my last year in what would now be known as arts subjects : languages , English and history . |
| 11 | Regions of the old DDR have been subsumed into the new federal states of Germany , and many of the sources are housed in what must now be called the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , Preussischer Kulturbesitz — a name that in itself sums up the problems of uniting the two Germanies . |
| 12 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |
| 13 | Network and relational database systems to which can now be added a fourth : |
| 14 | The education work included a village primary school with five hundred pupils , a central primary school equivalent to what would now be counted as secondary education , a teacher training school with fifty students and a Salvation Army officer 's Training College . |
| 15 | His monistic philosophy promoted a sense of the unity of Nature among later generations of environmentalists , but it was several decades before serious work on what would now be called ecological topics began . |
| 16 | If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning . |
| 17 | It was purchased by an architect , Michael Manser , in 1969 , for what would now be regarded as a nominal sum . |
| 18 | On a renewed application for leave to move for what would now be called judicial review , this court granted the application . |
| 19 | In the early 1980s the need to incorporate IT within the teaching of publishing led to participation in industrial panels monitoring the development and adoption of SGML ( Standard Generalized Mark-up Language ) , investment in the first generation of dedicated word-processors , and research into communication protocols between what might now be characterized as taciturn dinosaurs . |