Example sentences of "is now [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is now seeing the moment of ultimate feedback . |
| 2 | The US got the ‘ best ’ of the Cubans and Iranians , as it got many from 1848 ( Pinkerton , the organiser of anti-union factory guards was originally a British Chartist ) , and is now taking the cream of former communist states . |
| 3 | I remind the House that Britain is now taking the environmental lead in Europe . |
| 4 | There is now widespread evidence that the transport infrastructure can not keep pace with growth , and the Confederation of British Industry argues that traffic congestion is now costing the country some £15bn a year . |
| 5 | The firm is now touring the country teaching vicars the value of increased security . |
| 6 | Priestley received £3,000 and is now eyeing the £30,000 first prize at the Embassy World Championship . |
| 7 | David Chandler is now accusing the British Foreign office of not doing enough to secure his brother in law 's release . |
| 8 | Cabra is now enforcing the club 's option to buy — at a £22.8m price determined by arbitrators . |
| 9 | ‘ He is still the right man for the job , ’ said Kelly and it is now understood the issue will not even be on the agenda when the Football Association holds its annual meeting at Bournemouth on June 26 , a week after the conclusion of the ill-fated US Cup tour . |
| 10 | The executive share option scheme is now nearing the end of its ten-year life and following successful introduction of the savings related share option scheme in the UK , the Directors would like to make similar arrangements available to employees in other countries . |
| 11 | In effect , Japan bailed out America — and is now facing the consequences . |
| 12 | FOLLOWING the success of the Midland Railway Centre two excursion trains to London for Christmas Shopping which both departed from Butterley Station , the Trust is now discussing the possibility of operating a number of other trips during the summer months with Regional Railways for 1993 . |
| 13 | ESRC has funded some of the survey work and is now supporting the production of a book based on the project to be included in the series on the Inner Cities Programme . |
| 14 | Insiders suggest the Brighton party is now demanding the sum of £60,000 from Suede , and plans to issue the single should the band refuse to pay up . |
| 15 | It was considered as wrong then as it is now to embezzle the Crown 's revenues . |
| 16 | However , it is fair to say that the Forestry Commission has become more sympathetic to the needs of the land and is now encouraging the planting of more broadleaved trees . |
| 17 | British Telecommunications Plc is now implementing the first Metropolitan Area Network in the UK . |
| 18 | For us the key piece of this period is the François vase ( detail , fig. 47 ) , found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi ; Athens is now capturing the western market from Corinth . |
| 19 | I will turn finally to experiments on what is now called the ‘ child 's developing theory of mind ’ ( see Astington , Harris and Olson , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Britain is now called the dirty man of Europe because of our government 's lack of care for the environment . |
| 21 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , although it is now called the Robben Ford Signature series . |
| 23 | Once again the Italian School is represented by the largest number , fifty-one ; there are no additional Spanish drawings ; the British School has increased by two , the Flemish by eight , the Dutch by twenty-three , the French by twenty-nine , but the surprise is the rapid expansion of what is now called the Central European School , comprising German , Swiss and Prague Schools , of which there are twenty-nine compared with the fifteen published in the first volume . |
| 24 | Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate . |
| 25 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |
| 26 | Darwin had to think carefully about what is now called the problem of speciation : how a single species splits up into a number of ‘ daughter ’ species . |
| 27 | An explicit statement of what is now called the concept of a biotic community was made in Karl Möbius ' study of oyster beds ( 1877 ) . |
| 28 | What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing — the result of forced repression in some directions , unnatural stimulation in others … |
| 29 | This process is begun more explicitly in Barthes 's S/Z which in its change of direction opens what is now called the post-structuralist era and marks the end of the so-called classical or scientific period of structuralism . |
| 30 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |