Example sentences of "[be] now a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am now a man of straw . |
| 2 | The gardens are now a mixture of municipal bedding and 19C specimen trees , all somewhat disfigured by eye-level lollipop lighting . |
| 3 | Says a spokesman : ‘ Competitors are claiming hand-helds are now a part of fashion , but we do n't see it like that . |
| 4 | Like it or not , American mink are now a part of British wildlife . |
| 5 | These personal line drawings of the author 's family are now a tradition with this scribe , reflecting his work before he trained as a calligrapher . |
| 6 | NHS dentists are now a rarity in parts of London and the Home Counties — this is one effect of the new dental contract introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 7 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 8 | The upshot is that London currency derivatives have completely disappeared , currency futures are now a monopoly of the CME while currency options are split between the CME and Philadelphia . |
| 9 | There are now a lot of low-cost ‘ share shops ’ we can deal through as well . |
| 10 | There are now a number of stretching devices on the market . |
| 11 | Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect . |
| 12 | Many strains of Bacillus thuringiensis , for example , are insect pathogens because they produce insecticidal chemicals and , as Payne ( 1988 ) has discussed , there are now a number of commercially available strains which are used to control a variety of insects . |
| 13 | There are now a number of Baptist churches among the gypsies also . |
| 14 | Fortunately , there are now a number of assessment instruments designed to utilise spontaneous speech samples , and some of these suggest coding utterances direct from a tape without the need for transcription . |
| 15 | There are now a number of books and articles on Portage — the National Foundation for Educational Research ( NFER ) publishes Portage books and materials . |
| 16 | There are now a number of types of specially protected areas including national parks , Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) , nature reserves , Heritage Coasts , green belts , Areas of Great Landscape Value , country parks , forest parks , and Sites of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 17 | There are now a number of other women artists groups here in Berlin and in Germany . |
| 18 | There are now a number of routes to obtaining a qualification in the field . |
| 19 | But many historians have trod this path before and there are now a number of glossaries and explanatory works to guide the newcomer . |
| 20 | Hong Kong Special Report : The spectre haunting Hong Kong 's future : The ‘ Jewels of the Orient ’ are now a string of tarnished beads . |
| 21 | Cliftonville are now a team to be respected by other Irish League outfits and good luck to them in next week 's Irish Cup semi-final . |
| 22 | Within a few weeks he began to feel better , and his depression , anxiety , tiredness , panic attacks , fainting and sweating are now a thing of the past Problems , due to too much caffeine are fairly common , but not everyone has the sort of symptoms that Ken experienced . |
| 23 | They are a great menace to humans and have been hunted to such an extent that the huge wolf packs that terrorised whole provinces are now a thing of the past . |
| 24 | b ) family of marriage : the Jones ( Phil and Maggie ) are now a family of marriage . |
| 25 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 26 | In the USA the benefits of a home of one 's own , as generally understood — freedom , privacy , mobility , independence — are now a fact of life for an increasing number of people with learning difficulties . |
| 27 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm now a director of Blackpool and a FIFA lecturer and instructor and am involved in the national sports centre project in Belfast . |
| 29 | I 'm now a professor of mathematics , but I have not had any formal instruction in mathematics since I left St. Albans school at the age of seventeen . |
| 30 | Resolution 44/142 expressed alarm that drug trafficking and related criminal activities were now a threat to the political stability and security of states , as well as to their social and economic fabric , and asked the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive study of the problem . |