Example sentences of "[noun] now [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 2 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 3 | The Minister 's Department now concedes that it can not check every farm in every year . |
| 4 | Labour now realises that that system of relief was not adequate . |
| 5 | Seers now say that the petrol car will eventually be replaced by a battery-powered version . |
| 6 | Some organizations now insist that their staff be constantly cheerful and smiling , no matter how they feel . |
| 7 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 8 | The reports Authors now hope that University officials will take on board their recommendations and do everything they can to prevent any more tragic deaths . |
| 9 | If appraisal now reveals that it has some validity in principle , the next stage is application . |
| 10 | Television manufacturers now realise that , with comparative parity between models , consumers are less likely to be drawn towards a particular brand because of its supposed technical superiority or standard of after-sales service . |
| 11 | Pete Roche now believes that if the Scottish Miners Union leader Mick McGahey — a communist who supported the then official party policy of ‘ nuclear power with copper-bottomed safety ’ — had encouraged greater trade union involvement , a more substantial opposition could have been mounted . |
| 12 | Senator Moynihan now says that his plan is dead . |
| 13 | Enkidu now dreamt that they had offended the gods so deeply that one of them must die , and he promptly declined into a fatal illness . |
| 14 | The growing gap now means that the elderly people or their relatives must find that difference . |
| 15 | Because the size of potential losses is growing so fast , many insurers now reckon that providing catastrophe cover has simply become too risky and have quit the market . |
| 16 | To explain why the ozone hole exists , research now suggests that the Antarctic region offers an extreme situation in which chlorine molecules can scavenge ozone at a very fast rate ( Crutzen and Arnold , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | The defendant had argued that part of the land was exempt from tithes but an assistant tithe commissioner had denied this ; the defendant now asserted that the determination was an excess of jurisdiction . |
| 18 | The words drawled out sleepily but there was enough light from the window now to see that his eyes were open , watching me . |
| 19 | In simple terms the law now states that if the side taking the ball into a ruck or maul does not succeed in producing the ball then the opposition are awarded the put-in at the scrummage . |
| 20 | In place of the requirement to debit debt charges to individual operating statements , the law now requires that the local authority makes a ‘ minimum revenue provision ’ for the accounts as a whole . |
| 21 | Work on the Museum now reports that the wing control surfaces have recently been reworked and they hope to have on the wings themselves restarted soon . |
| 22 | The manifesto now admits that only freight services will be sold outright , and talks vaguely about ‘ franchising ’ the rest . |
| 23 | Even Yugoslav patriots now admit that their federation was probably unsaveable . |
| 24 | Did her recent divorce now mean that she was foot-loose and fancy free ? |
| 25 | Engineers now realise that sewerage can not be technically viable without a large domestic water supply . |
| 26 | However , most engineers now agree that low-cost systems are better . |
| 27 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 28 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 29 | Ross now admits that their conversations with the island 's inhabitants made them ‘ overconscious perhaps of island sloth and corruption , of the drug-running and fatalism that seemed the legacies of a colonial past ’ . |
| 30 | Ross now admits that his decision to record what they saw and encountered without reference to any personal response , in imitation of the camera-like approach used by Christopher Isherwood in Goodbye to Berlin , results in an ‘ inevitable distancing ’ . |