Example sentences of "[noun prp] be now the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royalty was first introduced in France in order to assist widows of artists who were killed in World War I. Although France and Germany are now the main countries where this royalty operates , it is on the statute books of another eight European countries within the EC at present ; only the UK , Ireland , the Netherlands and Greece do not have laws relating to a resale royalty . |
| 2 | Needless to say , though , drawings which bear a good provenance are usually of good quality : the drawings collected by such a fine connoisseur as the seventeenth-century English painter Peter Lely are now the pride of the world 's greatest museums . |
| 3 | Richard Tonks and John Brockbank are now the only directors at Feethams following his departure . |
| 4 | His old house on College Hill is now the Clive Museum.Behind the beautiful Georgian brick exterior lie remains of 15th- and 16th-century buildings . |
| 5 | Mexico is now the star economy in Latin America . |
| 6 | The United States was now the leading foreign oil power in the Middle East . |
| 7 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 8 | Brunei was now the sole ASEAN member without formal diplomatic ties with China . |
| 9 | Jesus of Nazareth was now the prism through which the various shafts of light in the Old Testament about the Spirit became luminous and in focus to them . |
| 10 | Ingatestone are now the only side in the Premier Division without a win following Broomfield 's 27-run victory over Little Waltham . |
| 11 | Partly that is because the people in power are primarily interested in the high-quality urban schools that their own children attend — and the best schools in Delhi or Nairobi are now the equal of any in the West . |
| 12 | Post Soviet Union Gosstandard is now the Russia Committee on Standards . |
| 13 | Ubermoppet Macaulay Culkin is now the 53rd most powerful person in Hollywood , according to America 's Premiere magazine . |
| 14 | The company claims that IBM is now the only competitor it comes up against on every deal . |
| 15 | The BBC documentary that alerted people in Britain to the implication of the silicon chip ( Ed Goldwyn 's Now the Chips are Down that we mentioned in Chapter 1 ) ended with the alarming questions : |
| 16 | Jeffrey is now the owner of a 39 bed , sea front Nursing Home at St. Annes-on-Sea . |
| 17 | And the player so often on the periphery of affairs with England is now the hub of a revitalised Liverpool . |
| 18 | The Tories have never before been reduced to control of one county council : Buckinghamshire is now the sole jewel in their crown . |
| 19 | If reforming Russia is now the world 's biggest challenge , then comfort can be taken in this new Russian knack of taking the right road when choices have to be made . |
| 20 | Russia is now the only country among the 15 post-Soviet republics that can design , construct and operate nuclear power stations . |
| 21 | Flashman is now the subject of a police enquiry as a result of a complaint by Sun photographer Paul Welford after a scuffle following the Football League hearing at a West End hotel on Monday . |
| 22 | Put simply , Northern Ireland is now the only place on the globe where people can not vote for or join the Labour Party . |
| 23 | The Americans turned the Islands into a plantation and Honolulu was now the business centre of the Pacific . |
| 24 | Milan are now the richest , the biggest club in the world , and if they defeat Marseille in Munich next Wednesday it will be their third success since their benefactor entered the San Siro . |
| 25 | Disgorged are now the Ministers of day ; |
| 26 | Since Matilda is now the wife of Geoffrey of Anjou , your oaths are no longer binding . ’ |
| 27 | The College of Education Ripon is now the College of Ripon and York St John . |
| 28 | The private Bodmer collection in Geneva is now the home of what was the only surviving Russian example of the 1455 Gutenburg Bible , bought for the Imperial library in the middle of the last century . |
| 29 | Penrhyn is now the largest quarry in the world , and 30,000 tonnes of rock a week are gouged out of the Carneddi mountains — 6 per cent of the world 's slate output . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ We believe Joe Darby is now the right man to take LASMO forward and to develop the company 's full potential ’ . |