Example sentences of "it now [vb past] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George ; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith ; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own — it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour , with the Liberal Party on the sideline . |
| 2 | He aimed to operate an air route towards the end of this year , but he said it now looked likely that the service will begin early next spring . |
| 3 | It now seemed extraordinary that so remote and irrelevant a place should ever loom so large in national and international affairs . |
| 4 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 5 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |