Example sentences of "be now [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're now in the second stage — the establishment of democratic institutions . |
| 2 | I think we 're now in the third phase , where women are expected to have a job , but at the same time to look after the family and keep themselves alluring to men . |
| 3 | Its restaurant and coffee bar are now on the first floor but once were on the ground floor where the bank is now . |
| 4 | And Schlegel in turn is followed by the Three Pieces Op. 29 by Jan Brandt Buys ( 1868–1933 ) , whose abrupt , rather Janáčekian turns reveal that we are now in the Twentieth Century , if only just . |
| 5 | We are now in the second division of world football and world cricket . |
| 6 | We are now in the third year of recession |
| 7 | The farmers are now among the first to use biological insecticides , becoming increasingly popular as a replacement to conventional chemical ones , to protect the environment and overcome the problem of resistance , which insects can develop after extended exposure to the same chemical . |
| 8 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
| 9 | They were now into the next lecture period , the last before lunch , and the campus had quietened down again . |
| 10 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the process of selling Official Airline Guides is now into the second round , with Reed Elsevier as the leading contender . |
| 12 | The US is now on the third edition of the Sun Express catalogue , Europe a second , with the first Japanese version due now . |
| 13 | This year Gary , of Enderby , Leicestershire , passed his law degree and is now on the last stage of training which will take him from factory to court . |
| 14 | Reactor 3 is now in the fifth week of a 14-week outage , with work on schedule . |
| 15 | The product is now in the last stages of beta testing with 19 customers chosen by BT , and Phonelink chief executive Trevor Burke claims there has been a 95% take-up rate . |
| 16 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 17 | My mother is now in the third year of her relationship . |
| 18 | Just before lunch today a Macchi pilot whom I shot down on 9 January was wheeled in , and is now in the next bed to me . |
| 19 | It was a generally constructive attempt to discuss the fact that 2 or 3 per cent of the population of most big European countries is now from the Third World , something which those who rhapsodise about the ‘ European identity ’ often ignore . |
| 20 | She knew by the temperature that it was now about the sixth hour . |
| 21 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |
| 22 | The threat was sufficient to alarm the king 's sister Adela , and she warned the king , who was now in the last stages of planning his final great attack on his brother 's duchy of Normandy . |
| 23 | But he was now in the last stages of his infirmity . |