Example sentences of "now [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have had your news , now I 'll be gone ! ’ |
| 2 | Thank God , Charlie thought , I 'm still alive , and surely now I 'll be sent back to England . |
| 3 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 4 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 5 | IT systems are available now which can be trained by experts to perform decision making activities based on implicit information as well as , or even better than , the experts who have trained them . |
| 6 | Now you will be caught for Value Added Tax . |
| 7 | She who had been refused any kind of hearing , now she would be heard . |
| 8 | Now she would be sent to a convent of the same order in Dublin where she would do a secretarial course . |
| 9 | Any second now she would be thrown out into the water , then her hand would — |
| 10 | Now we should be occupied totally with the future , or we shall risk being left behind . ’ |
| 11 | Now we will be plunged back into uncertainty . ’ |
| 12 | Lacking form , these movements had failed in 1848 — 50 , but now they would be given shape and direction by a monarchical revolution from above which would establish Prussian pre-eminence in Germany . |
| 13 | The old 'uns know if they come in now they 'll be seen nice and easy and have time for a chat-up with their old mates . ’ |
| 14 | It came in a stone mug , deliciously cold and wiping out in one mouthful the heat of the morning and the traces of last night 's headache ( he wondered briefly how the Engineer regiment was getting on in its battle positions ; by now they should be dug in and pausing for sips of lukewarm water or barely warmer tea . |
| 15 | Now they can be seen strolling around the city alongside their mahouts or drivers , or earning their living as tourist attractions , tethered to hotel lawns and bars . |
| 16 | In spite of the revival of interest in airships now they can be filled with cheap helium , they are still unattractive in most circles and it is no good quoting the figures for people killed in airship crashes against those killed every day on the roads and similar statistics , or the successful career of the R100 , although filled with hydrogen . |
| 17 | Hip replacements were once a rarity : now they can be carried out easily and the call for them has escalated . |
| 18 | Now they can be found only in the Moray Firth in Scotland . |
| 19 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 20 | Now they will be given even more freedom — they may change their characters if they wish to do so . |
| 21 | Now it might be argued that the resultant sense of dog here is caused by contextual modulation of the general sense : dog can not in this context refer to females if logical consistency is to be preserved , which leaves only males as possible referents . |
| 22 | Now it might be argued that ontologically the decisive factor is that on opening his eyes he found again two distinct individuals . |
| 23 | Now it might be argued as was done by Kant , for example — that the idea of a non-arbitrary , objective , order is built into the very concept of an external object ; that one can not significantly refer to external objects qua external without acknowledging by implication the existence of such an order ; and in a sense this is of course true . |
| 24 | Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability . |
| 25 | By now it might be wondered whether there is any satisfactory way to measure mental performance . |
| 26 | If they sacked Sutton now it would be seen as a victory for Pilger and agreement to his total control over the paper . |
| 27 | Only in 1835 , after intermittent rioting , subsequently suppressed by the Coldstream Guards , did the magistrates cautiously suggest that unrest had ended , ‘ Otmoor , being now it may be hoped in a state of permanent tranquillity ’ . |
| 28 | It would seem that the originators of atonality believed that their music was really completely non-tonal , but by now it can be seen that atonality is really an obscuring of tonalities in varying degrees . |
| 29 | Now it can be argued that the mere collection of information about named persons is not in itself necessarily wrong ; even if it does offend against good taste — like the prying neighbour behind the lace curtains — it is hardly an area for the heavy hand of the law . |
| 30 | Now it can be told . ’ |