Example sentences of "[subord] it was now " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least to that branch of it that had rooted at Edendale in Southland , NZ , where it was now summer . |
| 2 | Clashes and scores of casualties continued elsewhere in south-east Turkey , where it was now estimated that about one-third of the Turkish army , or 150,000 troops , were deployed . |
| 3 | The structure had originally been a sphere , Ace guessed , although it was now , like the space station itself , an accretion of bizarre extrusions . |
| 4 | Although it was now early morning , the house was still in total silence , and so there were no witnesses to see Mason being helped downstairs and put in the carriage . |
| 5 | He had n't touched the black box alarm so it was now or never . |
| 6 | If it was now , they might be inclined to be physical ’ . |
| 7 | See people did n't have cars , and if it was now , they could only help me by bringing a horse to meet me or erm or a tractor if they half way . |
| 8 | Because it was now precisely twelve hours from the big bang . |
| 9 | At the same time , while it was now impossible to recover any significant sense of the centrality of English within the process of political democracy , the Cambridge Crisis allowed the wider debates about the " democratic " process to come into play within English studies . |
| 10 | Off I went to resume normal existence and my first priority , since it was now nearly nine o'clock and I was due to meet Jack Mason at a quarter to ten , was breakfast . |
| 11 | And not just in Britain either , though it was now setting the pace - or at least contributing its own in all these fields . |
| 12 | The tight ranks wavered and melted before the driving spearhead , even though it was now sadly deformed and its speed slackened . |
| 13 | Though it was now possible to cross , the central stones were still wet , and in that poor light would be treacherous . |
| 14 | the jacket was the uniform of Britain 's 95th Rifles , though it was now so threadbare and patched that it might have belonged to a tramp . |
| 15 | It had been unsaddled but its coat was still covered with a thick , sweaty foam though it was now quiet and placid . |
| 16 | Fear of the Communist " Trojan horse " was still present in the minds of the Executive , though it was now coupled with a desire to assert the Party 's independence from allies on the Right as much as on the Left . |
| 17 | But WS & C as it was now known world wide had carried the development of security to the ultimate . |
| 18 | I packed away my Bible in its plastic bag and , as it was now light enough to see , switched off the torch . |
| 19 | ‘ Nor do I. ’ He smiled at her , and she smiled gently back at the tall , grey-haired , spare-framed man , whose brown eyes were so like her own , and whose hair at one time had been auburn , too , not a grizzled grey as it was now . |
| 20 | On structural grounds alone , a new building was needed as it was now so weak that it probably would not be able to withstand building operations being carried out on the surrounding land . |
| 21 | The Zambia Daily Mail , as it was now known , received a subsidy from the Government . |
| 22 | He was struck by the way that the buffalo hide pictures from the last century , drawn by his great-great grandfathers , showed the monastery as it was now , in 1997 . |
| 23 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 24 | The next meeting of the Accident Investigation and prevention Division , as it was now called , was altogether different . |
| 25 | He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now . |
| 26 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 27 | Asmar 's fiancée , Giselle , Mary-Claude 's sister , met him off the boat , and as it was now Sunday , they joined the family for lunch at their house in Sarba . |
| 28 | After a warm-up climb on the interesting granite cliffs of Basher 's Harbour near Pra Sands , and fortified by a cream tea , we hastened , for it was now after 7pm , across the moorland from the car-park south of Mullion Cove , to Vellan Head . |