Example sentences of "be now [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matters are now coming to a head because of the advent of leagues next season . |
| 2 | The government and the TUC were now committed to a concordat to bring inflation down to 5 per cent over three years , while new TUC guidelines were issued over picketing and the operation of the closed shop . |
| 3 | It is now determined to a degree it never was in the past to put an end to beef intervention being viewed , by the Republic of Ireland in particular , as a market it has a right to supply . |
| 4 | That what I always call a family , is now referred to a lot a lot as a family . |
| 5 | Among her achievements was writing the school song , which is now sung to a tune composed by Miss R. C. Evans , music mistress at the school from 1924 to 1949 . |
| 6 | Curtis is now confined to a wheelchair after a stage accident in 1990 but this album — great value at £7.99 for CD and £4.99 for cassette — reminds us how good he was . |
| 7 | This means the account client , calling on his ex-directory priority line , is now linked to a cab in his area by computer and the taxi despatched to pick-up in seconds . |
| 8 | Swan Hunters was reprivatized in January 1986 and is now reduced to a work force of some 3000 and one building berth at Wallsend , although other yards are being used for preliminary fabrication . |
| 9 | Once found throughout the Yangtze , as well as the adjacent Futon River , the baiji , 2.5 metres ( 8 feet ) long , is now reduced to a handful of sub-groups . |
| 10 | The hall at the bottom of the stairs was a tiny square , a door on one side opened to what had been designed as the best parlour , but was now converted to a waiting-room for the surgery , which was a lean-to structure at the back . |