Example sentences of "now [vb pp] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 2 | This is now considered to be extremely dangerous — she could bite and break whatever it is and inhale the broken bit . |
| 3 | Namibia predicted that it would have to spend R19,000,000 ( about US$6,850,000 ) on maize imports as the commercial maize harvest , originally forecast to be a record 50,000 tonnes , was now expected to be only 5,000-10,000 tonnes . |
| 4 | Voters were now said to be more worried about ‘ poor public services ’ than they were about high taxes . |
| 5 | Mr Sam 's now said to be seriously ill , but stable in hospital after two operations . |
| 6 | This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers . |
| 7 | Although the details of their theory are now seen to be clearly wrong , their insight , that different parts of the brain are responsible for different processes , has stood the test of time and research and informs much of our current understanding of the brain . |
| 8 | The earth is now thought to be over 5,000 million years old , and the oldest fossils are over 3,000 million years old . |
| 9 | These rocks , now thought to be about 650 million years old , were believed to be completely unfossiliferous . |
| 10 | These areas of hypersensitivity are now shown to be functionally important in vivo , as they mark regions which comprise a putative locus control region ( LCR ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The costs of absence are now shown to be much higher than had previously been thought , ’ said Robbie Gilbert , the CBI 's director of employment affairs . |
| 12 | The delayed Subsystem is now scheduled to be generally available in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 13 | However , this view is now known to be rather naive . |
| 14 | Most starch and fibre sources come largely under the heading of complex carbohydrates — now known to be as important as protein to a healthy diet . |
| 15 | The signalling properties of the polarizing region are now known to be quite unrelated to cell death which is a separate process . |
| 16 | The global demand is now estimated to be over 1000 million tonnes . |
| 17 | There are now estimated to be around 50 in the Moscow area , and 100 in the Russian federation as a whole . |
| 18 | There are now estimated to be about 760,000 minke whales in the Antarctic , up from less than 200,000 in the early 1970s , and some supporters of whaling argue that the increase in minke numbers is putting pressure on food stocks and hampering the recovery of more seriously endangered whale species . |