Example sentences of "is now [adv] [verb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And it is now equally clear that Mrs Thatcher 's response to this ultimatum was similarly direct .
2 It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John .
3 It is now generally accepted that FAP is fully penetrant ( polyps are present ) if the bowel is examined endoscopically .
4 Origin of Wings and Flight — It is now generally accepted that wings arose , perhaps in the early Devonian , as lateral expansions of the thoracic terga ( Hamilton , 197 z ) .
5 It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA .
6 It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) .
7 It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis .
8 It is now generally appreciated that Warner Bros had been particularly badly hit by the depression , largely because of the furious rate at which they had acquired movie-houses in the 1920s .
9 It is now well established that diabetics are prone to early atherosclerosis ( Epstein et al , 1965 Pirart , 1978 ; Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) which appears no different from that in non-diabetics ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) .
10 It is now widely accepted that H pylori is one of the most important factors in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer disease .
11 It is now widely acknowledged that Keynes accepted the classical theory of the demand for labour in the form of marginal productivity theory .
12 In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden .
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