Example sentences of "now [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was known as ‘ the Inspectors ’ Course , and is now referred to as the ‘ Junior Command Course ’ . |
| 2 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 3 | The General Household Survey ( GHS ) defines a one-parent family as ‘ one parent with their never married dependent children ’ ; they may be widowed , divorced , separated or single never-married women ( from now referred to as ‘ single mothers ’ ) . |
| 4 | Following the 1974 NHS reorganisation , we had the introduction of what is now referred to as the departmental system of budgeting ( as in level 2 in Fig. 3.2 ) . |
| 5 | Clive 's latest wheeze was to have the students — now referred to as ‘ customers ’ — grade the teachers on a scale of one to ten . |
| 6 | For that reason , authorisation under EC rules by a member state is now referred to as ‘ the single passport ’ , since it permits the beneficiary to rely upon that authorisation from its home country throughout the Community . |
| 7 | The sick wards were now referred to as the workhouse infirmary , a new block was built in 1916 , and by the twenties , it was this section of the Bedford Union which became St. Peter 's Hospital . |
| 8 | The Mexicans seem to be following a general trend in renaming their penal institutions , and many prisons are now referred to as ‘ Centres for Rehabilitation ’ . |
| 9 | Subsequently Wernicke ( 1874 ) drew attention to defects in the comprehension of language following damage to the posterior third of the superior temporal gyrus on the left side , now referred to as Wernicke 's area . |
| 10 | In a final , ironic comment on what commentators now referred to as ‘ the British disease ’ , television coverage of the national celebration was severely disrupted by a dispute over technicians ' pay . |
| 11 | The process was initiated in 1970 and is now referred to as the European Political Cooperation Procedure . |
| 12 | That is why it is essential that we should continue to develop the space-based defence , which was once called the strategic defence initiative or SDI and is now referred to as ’ brilliant pebbles ’ . |
| 13 | One has to be ever-vigilant in feeding what I believe are now referred to as ‘ multicultural ’ gatherings . ’ |
| 14 | The concept , now referred to as ‘ universal precautions , ’ stresses that all patients should be assumed to be infectious for HIV , HBV , and other blood-borne pathogens . |
| 15 | The council observes that the estimated total cost , including preliminary expenses , has now risen to in excess of £63 million , and that that does not include the costs of disruption during the construction period . |
| 16 | Although not all newspapers were affected to the same degree , the trend towards more ‘ sensation ’ and more ‘ sport ’ suggested that the ‘ reader was expected to be intellectually more passive … attracted less by the prospect of greater wisdom than by that of ‘ Elevated ’ status , and he was now appealed to in a shrill capitalised format ’ . |
| 17 | It was this policy he now resorted to in an attempt to win Martha back . |
| 18 | Erm so erm th the cheapest er fuel at the moment is gas , you know , that 's , that 's why er a lot of the erm er er generators are now moving to towards gas er erm er generation er wh which is fine for as long as the gas exists but , you know , another , give it another ten fifteen years , and our North Sea gas will have gone you see so , so erm you have to ask well how much do you , weight do you put on market forces and how much in say , in the energy business , ought you to be thinking longer term ? |