Example sentences of "now [verb] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had ceased operations in February 1992 on the basis of government 's pledges to provide land and credits , and were now demanding that these pledges be honoured . |
| 2 | With meticulous footnoting , she now argued that all plots and revolutions against the social order in human history had been caused by secret societies , through the use of black magic , mass hypnotism and telepathy . |
| 3 | " This Meeting being informed that Cart Drivers are very inattentive as to their Conduct upon the road with Carts It is now recommended that all Travellers upon the road shall take to the Left in all situations , and that when a Traveller upon the road shall loose a shew of his horse , the Parochial Blacksmith shall be obliged to give preference to the Traveller . " |
| 4 | We now realise that these claims are totally unfounded . |
| 5 | But it gets worse : the Home Office has now decided that those Departments must find the money to build the places but that local authorities must find the running costs . |
| 6 | This case now establishes that such covenants will run with the land and that it is only necessary for the lease to provide that the expression " the landlord " includes its successors in title . |
| 7 | We must , however , now accept that these plans are developments from the original forms and that great changes may have taken place before we get to the earliest arrangement we can distinguish . |
| 8 | Those who now complain that these approvals were given too quickly overlook the sense of crisis which the spread of AIDS has engendered over the past decade , not to mention the eagerness of all concerned to match the pathos of those infected with HIV with anything that might be an effective medicine . |
| 9 | Since aerial photography of cropmarks has now shown that such sites are widespread , particularly beneath a number of later hillforts and in numerous river valleys , most parts of southern Britain may well have been within the territory of , and exploited by , one or other of these sites in Neolithic times . |
| 10 | However , some of my medical and scientific friends now suspect that some women burn up only 1,500 calories daily — so obviously , on this intake , they would maintain weight rather than reduce surplus fat . |
| 11 | The Edict of Pîtres in 864 strongly suggests the combination of political and fiscal reasons behind Charles 's determination to keep control of markets : others , presumably local magnates , had been setting them up on their own initiative , but the king now decreed that such markets were to be banned unless they secured royal authorisation , and royal agents were told to keep lists of those so authorised . |
| 12 | The migrating larval stages in large numbers may cause a transient pneumonia , but it is now recognised that many cases of so-called " Ascaris pneumonia " may be attributable to other infections , or to piglet anaemia . |
| 13 | It is now known that many plants grow at temperatures as low as 0°C , albeit slowly , and it is thought that higher temperatures are more important in the earlier half of the year . |
| 14 | It is now known that most children who are sensitive to cow 's milk are actually reacting to the proteins it contains . |
| 15 | However , it is now known that some corals can survive settling sediment and that even reefs may develop in muddy surroundings . |
| 16 | Some commentators now believe that these forecasts underestimate the benefits to trade . |
| 17 | However , the sex of the fetus will be known in numerous situations of antenatal diagnosis other than for sex-linked diseases , and it now seems that some women seek abortions merely because they are dissatisfied with the sex of the fetus . |
| 18 | Sugars also attach to proteins to form ‘ glycoproteins ’ , and it now seems that most proteins function only in the form of glycoprotein . |
| 19 | Its discovery in E. coli is relatively recent , and it now seems that most bacteria can be transformed by raw DNA . |
| 20 | It is now believed that such names were used for monastic communities modelled on genuine desert prototypes in Egypt . |
| 21 | The new contract for General Practitioners now stipulates that all patients aged over 75 should be offered an annual check up and home visit where , if possible , assistance can be offered to cope with any undetected functional handicaps . |
| 22 | This now means that many institutions no longer have the business and technological skills in-house to take on large systems integration projects , and are looking to external providers to save them money on services and hardware . |
| 23 | But the government is now proposing that all schemes , including small ones , should not be allowed to invest more than 5 per cent of their money in their employer 's businesss . |