Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] now [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having made the distinction clear between the two modes it is necessary now to acknowledge that to see the relationship always in terms of contrary orientations may be an oversimplification . |
| 2 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 3 | Since then things have improved markedly and it is rare now to see such howlers as the Wirral Globe 's explanation of a 16K RAM as a chip with ‘ up to 16 000 different uses ’ . |
| 4 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 5 | He himself thought The Confidential Clerk to be his most profound play , but it is difficult now to see this . |
| 6 | It is difficult now to imagine this square without the powerful bronze of Jan Hus gazing upon his church with his followers holding the chalice which was so significant in his religious arguments ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 7 | It is hard now to remember that Labour actually cut nurses ' pay . |
| 8 | It is hard now to associate this restful hamlet with those who have set out to take part in events that have shaken the nation ; even more so with the lawless days of mob rule , savage revenge and gruesome murder . |