Example sentences of "[coord] [be] now [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manila had no property boom in the 1980s and is now about the only significant capital in South-East Asia that is not overbuilt . |
| 2 | It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s . |
| 3 | This year Gary , of Enderby , Leicestershire , passed his law degree and is now on the last stage of training which will take him from factory to court . |
| 4 | Ten year old Dean Goldsmith fell off his bike last week and is now in the intensive care unit of the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . |
| 5 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 6 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
| 7 | It disappeared for centuries but in 1725 it was rediscovered in Ballinabeck graveyard in the parish of Scarva and is now in the National Museum in Dublin . |
| 8 | Just before lunch today a Macchi pilot whom I shot down on 9 January was wheeled in , and is now in the next bed to me . |
| 9 | Zhanna has no rivals as a female rock singer and is now among the top three Soviet women the others are All a Pugachova and Sophia Rotaru who reach the wider pop audience . |
| 10 | A petro-chemical and pharmaceuticals company , Elf Aquitaine was founded in 1941 and is now among the ten largest oil , gas and chemical companies in the world , with an operating income in 1991 of FFr18.8 billion . |
| 11 | If the accounts of British politics between 1832 and 1867 pointed to the sovereignty of Parliament , then the accounts that came to the fore after that period made the additional point that the sovereignty of the people was behind this and was now of the constitutional and political essence . |