Example sentences of "what be now a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sculptor and a rock star have teamed up to honour hundreds of unskilled labourers who toiled in difficult , often dangerous conditions to build what 's now a busy commuter railway line . |
| 2 | A complete review of what is now a vast , varied — and sometimes idiosyncratic — literature would take us well beyond our available space and our aim here will be to summarise the main approaches to the topic , in order to try to disentangle some arguments in the debate and draw some general conclusions from it . |
| 3 | before a final all-embracing italicized section , looking back in its typography , placing , and , most importantly , its rhythm , recalls the opening nursery rhyme chorus , but gives it a universal voice which seems to include all that we have heard before in what is now a ritual chant ending with an appropriately childlike sound , |
| 4 | It will mean added congestion on roads , which are barely adequate to cope with the present traffic , not to mention more people brought into what is now a pleasant rural area . |
| 5 | Water is due to be impounded in April 1984 and the reservoir will spread over 3500 hectares of what is now a semi-urban area . |
| 6 | What is now a spacious , much-loved kitchen and casual eating area , for example , was once a muddle of little rooms — sculleries and larders . |
| 7 | This small selection of articles only covers a fraction of what is now a large field , but it does point the way towards more effective reconstruction of tissues and organs . |
| 8 | Indeed , the SVR4.1 ES work cleared out much of CPU-specific code that had crept into SVR4.0 , resulting in what is now a clean porting environment , according to Price . |
| 9 | XVT , which first surfaced back in 1989 , is probably the most mature of what is now a growing bunch of tools offering a single developers toolkit for multiple graphical user interfaces — competitors include Neuron Data 's Open Interface and Open Inc 's Aspect . |
| 10 | We have tried to respond to increasing demands from what is now a growing membership . |
| 11 | The milieu in which I met James in 1975 was that of the florid young Lord Alexander Hesketh , undoubtedly the last figure of unbridled fun ever to have competed in what is now a grimmish , strictly money-oriented sport . |
| 12 | The Unix Forum ‘ 92 expo and conference is being held May 26–27 at the Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin in what is now a united Germany . |
| 13 | The Unix Forum ‘ 92 expo and conference is being held May 26–27 at the Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin in what is now a united Germany . |
| 14 | Pacified by what was now a familiar hand-out of a packet of sandwiches , some chocolate and an orange , many , like ten-year-old Angela Carpos , were bewildered . |
| 15 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 16 | The bill passed what was now a Whig-dominated Commons , although the Tories did try to introduce an amendment to make the foreigners take the sacrament in accordance with the rites of the Church of England , and when the Tories gained power after the 1710 General Election they repealed the Act . |
| 17 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 18 | Over several centuries it had grown into what was now a natural bond . |