Example sentences of "[adj] but now " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 2 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 3 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 4 | The force on the mobile charges is still qE but now the charges may follow the electric field all the way around the ring . |
| 5 | The money was brought in by direct weekly collection , but sales of various kinds and by that once universally popular but now almost vanished institution , the Guest Tea . |
| 6 | There are further curbs on union activity to think up , a pastime that used to be popular but now looks merely gratuitous . |
| 7 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 8 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 9 | The focus of what could be seen as a heartfelt cry for commercial sanity to be restored to the sport centred upon one simple but now all-consuming issue — money ! |
| 10 | Notice now that the white one the two white ones are superimposed but now look the two reds and the two blues are now not superimposed any longer . |
| 11 | It is , however , a much better thing for the Lions that England 's formerly mighty but now creaking pack should have been found out at Lansdowne Road rather than in the Land of the Long White Cloud . |
| 12 | The other quibbles are the lack of photography and a shortage of contemporary comment save Richard Hutton 's observations on Yorkshire 's stance on overseas players and Derek Hodgson 's anticipatory but now irrelevant portrait of C.J.McD . |
| 13 | The consequences of successive devaluations of the ‘ green ’ pound were also referred to by Mr Ramsay , who said ‘ With the compensation calculated at 80p per ecu as it was last September a high-yielding arable farm of 1,000 acres would have been over £48,000 worse off between 1993 and 1995 but now , with the rate at 98p per ecu that same farm 's cross margin will drop by just under £2,000 . |
| 14 | But it was also an explicitly Christian spirit — unfortunate therefore for the four thousand Jews and for the tiny but now increasing numbers of Hindus , Buddhists , Muslims , and Taoists . |
| 15 | It possesses a most interesting tower porch ( clocher-porche ) originally three-storeyed but now only two as the bell chamber has disappeared . |
| 16 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 17 | Before , he had always been rather frightening but now he looked pathetic with his tear-stained cheeks , grieving eyes and red gaping mouth which could only make gurgling sounds as Benjamin took him by the hand and tried to convey his condolences . |
| 18 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 19 | A BELA Lugosi horror classic , derided when originally released back in 1932 but now hailed as his finest role . |
| 20 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 21 | Well you know he used to be quite good looking when he was younger but now he 's really ugly . |
| 22 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 23 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 24 | BRECHIN Round tower of Irish type from eleventh or twelfth century , originally free-standing but now linked to restored cathedral by an aisle . |
| 25 | In County Durham , for example , British Coal is spending £6 million a year keeping its remaining coastal pits dry but now has no operational interest in the network of 11 pumping stations . |
| 26 | In it is Louis Jourdan , once fabulous-looking but now not just a shadow of his former self . |
| 27 | It used to be very covert but now we are coming out from behind the bushes . ’ |
| 28 | And that 's , am I right in saying that in terms of the erm move to try and get erm heating additions , it 's actually started er in , and that but now there 's , there 's , there 's been a spin-off affect , and increasingly people are trying |
| 29 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 30 | Within a week , she was back to normal but now it 's happened again and I feel anxious to know more about it . |