Example sentences of "is now [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vision of Arthur Guinness had been realised and the foundations laid for the building of the international organisation that is now Guinness Brewing Worldwide . |
| 2 | He was Limerick Area Secretary 1978–86 and is now Waterford Area Secretary . |
| 3 | The new fare is now £199 return . |
| 4 | No a I ca n't see that that Friday is now Sunday night . |
| 5 | Akeman Street was the boundary between what is now Tackley Park and Whitehill Farm as early as the year 1004 when King Ethelred gave the small estate of Whitehill to St Frideswide 's monastery at Oxford , and it is still a boundary though the Roman road has vanished from sight . |
| 6 | Due to cutbacks in Adult Education last year , Margaret was made redundant from her part-time post as lecturer for Special Needs in Wandsworth Adult College ; she is now Curriculum Manager for Basic Education , Special Needs , Physical Education and Complementary Health with Surrey Adult and Continuing Education Service and enjoys this work very much . |
| 7 | St Luke 's College Exeter is now Exeter University . |
| 8 | Quantum Software Systems Ltd , the 10-year-old Unix-like firm has have changed its name to mirror its software : it is now QNX Software Systems Ltd . |
| 9 | It is now History plc . |
| 10 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 11 | The bid by what is now Braintree District Commercial Services , an organisation set up to comply with Government rules over competitive tendering for council jobs , is for £246,285.27 . |
| 12 | Brighton Training College is now Brighton Polytechnic . |
| 13 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |
| 14 | It was used as a lace factory until 1877 , and is now government property . |
| 15 | ‘ The old six five-minute rounds and best of three falls has gone , it is now time limit matches with one fall to decide . ’ |
| 16 | This is possible with ballot laws is now ballot bill . |
| 17 | Some machinery but not the wheel still survives , in the cellar of what is now Malvern House . |
| 18 | Joined the Group in 1982 and is now Group director responsible for Safety , Health and Environmental matters . |
| 19 | They were commissioned by John Cox who worked with Hockney at Glyndebourne and who is now Production Director of the Royal Opera . |
| 20 | He began his career as intake foreman at the maltings when it was built and is now barley buyer for the south of England . |
| 21 | This he did , with successful air tests conducted at Hanworth ( London Air Park ) , near what is now Heathrow Airport . |
| 22 | He is now Darlington Football Club 's full time physio with big plans for improving the treatment of sports injuries in the town . |
| 23 | A canal had been dug by French prisoners of war from what is now Dartmoor Prison , and it passed through a 2-mile-long tunnel to the hillside above the quay . |
| 24 | The College of St Mathias Bristol is now Bristol Polytechnic . |
| 25 | Clarke is now tournament professional at the K-Club , Straffan , County Kildare — he has just switched from the equally fashionable Mount Julliet , County Kilkenny — and manager Andrew Chandler believes a European victory is definitely on the cards for Ulster 's emerging star . |
| 26 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
| 27 | Her first job in the area at Ayresome Junior School , Middlesbrough , gave her first hand experience of the problems faced by teachers in the region and she is now county education committee spokesman . |
| 28 | Balls Park College , later Hertfordshire College of Higher Education , is now Hatfield Polytechnic ( Wall Hall Campus ) . |