Example sentences of "now be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lax strokes against India last winter led to an unexpected blip in his Test fortunes , but then predictability is hardly a word one readily associates with the man whose one-time monicker , ‘ Afghan ’ ( the forgotten Waugh ) , should now be transferred to brother Steve . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | The proposal here is that the right to gain an attachment of earnings should now be limited to maintainance payments only . |
| 4 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |
| 5 | So far there 've been no prosecutions but following a period of grace the speeders will now be taken to court . |