Example sentences of "[noun sg] is now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your first prescription was right but a new remedy is now needed . |
| 2 | The Freight Transport Association is now wondering if the government will increase the car speed limit in line with Europe , as motoring organisations have been suggesting . |
| 3 | In certain respects the Old Testament is now invalidated . |
| 4 | But because of the council 's incompetence , which has meant that her rent card is now marked as owing rent , and lacking a deposit , she would be dependent on a somewhat shady mortgage company for the mortgage to buy such a house ( rent cards are the easiest and most common means of checking on the credit-worthiness of a person on a low income ) . |
| 5 | A great deal is now known about such signals in a wide range of animals , from crabs and spiders to monkeys and humans . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the model does show that a good deal is now known about the illness , and this information provides both promising avenues for future research and implications for preventive intervention . |
| 7 | However , an experiment is now taking place here whereby cyclists may share the space with the walkers on the basis of equality . |
| 8 | The experiment is now performed and it is found that the bats avoid collisions just as efficiently as before . |
| 9 | But since the entire British electorate is now sitting on his cushion , he has increased public spending and raised taxes simultaneously , allowing the PSBR to rise to £28 billion . |
| 10 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 11 | Birdland is now offering a reward for the safe return of the birds and the conviction of the thieves . |
| 12 | Kelmscott Manor is now maintained by the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 13 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |
| 14 | On May 28 the West German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , rejected the latter suggestion but declared : " It is remarkable that the Soviet President is now beginning to concern himself in public with the prerequisites for [ German ] NATO membership . " |
| 15 | The first step in the proceedings taken by a defendant is now governed by Ords 12 and 13 and has two functions — to acknowledge that he has been served with the writ and to give the plaintiff notice that he intends to defend the proceedings . |
| 16 | The Prime hardware side is now closed and the company has a letter of intent to pass on what is left of the Prime Information Pick-derived database system to Pick-under-Unix specialist VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts on undisclosed terms . |
| 17 | Although these attitudes still persist , the general view has been transformed and reminiscence is now seen as a normal , if not essential , element of successfully growing old . |
| 18 | Cotton is profitable again — Texas produces half of the US cotton crop — and much less insecticide is now applied to the crop . |
| 19 | The Inland Revenue is now applying stricter rules in considering applications for Profit Related Pay scheme registration . |
| 20 | The Inland Revenue is now applying stricter rules in considering applications for Profit Related Pay ( PRP ) scheme registration . |
| 21 | His immobility is now pointed , and getting awkward . |
| 22 | The club is now written up in style magazines ; models are photographed with the head waiter . |
| 23 | Management of the programme is now overseen by Stuart and Dr Derek Pooley , managing director of our Nuclear Business Group , and detailed assistance is provided by Ken Currie 's Business Strategy Unit . |
| 24 | This programme is now moving on to a consideration of the functions of government departments themselves , with proposals to privatise large swathes of government activities , leaving a small , central policy-making core in Whitehall . |
| 25 | The programme is now sponsored by British Telecom hence the new title , BT Environment City . |
| 26 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 27 | Opposition is now beginning to proposed gold mining in Co . |
| 28 | This means that the habitual/made-strange opposition is now located within literature itself and is no longer co-extensive with the distinction between literature and non-literature . |
| 29 | Land Rover themselves seem to realise this as the Defender is now fitted with the 200 Tdi unit which seems a good engine . |
| 30 | His brother-in-law is now asking people to send letters of protest direct to the Iraqi government . |