Example sentences of "now [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while the White House has publicly dismissed anti-war demonstrators as well-meaning but ‘ misguided individuals ’ , off the record , some presidential advisers reportedly consider the anti-war movement a danger to be dealt with , noting that ‘ its membership is mainstream and 100 times stronger now than at the beginning of Vietnam . ’ |
| 2 | It was to no purpose , however , for Franco was no more inclined to negotiate now than at any time in the past year . |
| 3 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 4 | The number of new words entering the English language is rising faster now than at any time in history . |
| 5 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 6 | The prospects for democracy in Africa are probably better now than at any time in the post-colonial era . |
| 7 | ‘ According to the CBI , manufacturers are more optimistic now than at any time for almost five years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 9 | He went on , more to her father now than to her , in his light drawling voice she had to listen to in church every Sunday of her life telling them all what was what because he had the God-given power to do so and they had to listen and obey . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a better atmosphere now than for many years — fewer stoppages , better relationships . |
| 11 | During the housing debate , Kevin Johnston , from Eastbourne , East Sussex , was cheered as he said : ‘ The homelessness problem is even more acute now than in 1985 . |
| 12 | Lewis Smedes , in his book Sex in the Real World , lists a number of reasons why adultery is so much more common now than in previous generations . |
| 13 | But still , it must be better now than in 1990 , as she watched many of her titles slip away , one by one . |
| 14 | One way of considering broad based beliefs about health was to ask , ‘ Are people more healthy now than in their parents ' time ? ’ |
| 15 | The proportion reporting that they thought people were healthier now than in their parents ' time decreased with age , from 78 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 years to 67 per cent of those aged 85 years and over ( Victor 1990a ) . |
| 16 | In contrast , the production of village and nomadic rugs has generally decreased , and the investment potential of better quality items is probably far more secure now than in the past . |
| 17 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
| 18 | These are harder to come by now than in the boom period of the late 1980s . |
| 19 | Do you feel that you 've got more or less job security now than in the past ? |
| 20 | There is , however , somewhat more investigation now than in the past , and occasionally the teachers may wheel in a micro or a video player to provide a degree of reinforcement of learning in a given field . |
| 21 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 22 | We were too pessimistic about manufacturing companies withdrawing from the the Third World as automation in the West took over — in fact there is much more manufacturing in developing countries now than in 1980 , as our next issue will make plain . |
| 23 | There are certainly fewer trained health workers in the field now than in 1985 . |
| 24 | Higher proportions of older unemployed workers experience long unemployment durations now than in the late 1970's . |
| 25 | These aspects of political choice are still important but less so now than in the past . |
| 26 | Whatever the case , it is not only governments in the Middle East that appear to be more pragmatic now than in the recent past and although anti-TNC rhetoric is still common for public consumption , the line is substantially moderated in regulations for and negotiations with the TNCs . |
| 27 | Work would be a crude er a crude assessment er between nineteen ei nineteen ninety one census of employment data and nineteen ninety one census data would indicate that there is a greater inflow of commuters now than in nineteen eighty one , although I accept that that is crude and I would n't like |
| 28 | ‘ In fact the amount outstanding in arrears as a proportion of our total mortgages is slightly less now than in June 1988 . ’ |
| 29 | In choosing between the goals towards which I spontaneously tend , I may find myself being excited more strongly by what I perceive here and now than by what I imagine from other viewpoints , so that for example a present amusement obliterates consciousness of a future danger . |
| 30 | The cry by 1901 was for educated men ‘ of good social standing ’ to become ministers : ‘ Such men … are more needed now than before Board Schools provided hearers whose improved education demands preaching of a higher order than formerly . ’ |