Example sentences of "but [pers pn] now [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department . |
| 2 | There was a copy in the library at one stage , although not listed under it was under , but I now see that when the other day I looked erm , according to er , there is n't even anything under . |
| 3 | But I now realise that I , too , have been a whore , now that I am in love . |
| 4 | They were laughed at then , but we now know that they were correct . |
| 5 | Once it used to be just child psychology but we now know that we develop all the time from womb to tomb . |
| 6 | But we now know that the dominant leader of the herd is the old matriarch and that the big bulls are forced to live out their lives in solitary splendour on the fringes of elephant society . |
| 7 | The rings of Saturn are indeed spectacular , but we now know that Jupiter , Uranus and Neptune likewise have rings : it is strange that the visiting extraterrestrials should not have mentioned this . |
| 8 | Without calculating moments of inertia about three Cartesian axes we can not be sure which band-type corresponds to which of the three IR-active symmetry species , but we now know that the B-axis is associated with a 1 vibrations , and is therefore the z axis . |
| 9 | In the past , it was thought that language began when the child uttered the first word , but we now know that it begins with the first interactions and communication shortly after birth . |
| 10 | But we now know that what discovered was individual genes and , as far as we know , individual genes are always handed on complete and intact . |
| 11 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 12 | ‘ The Lions were obviously disappointed about losing that first Test 20–18 , but we now realise that we are pretty close to the All Blacks . |
| 13 | For instance , in 1936 the style of certain Athenian coins was compared with that of other arts , and the conclusion was drawn that the coins were produced at the same time as the other objects , i.e. , 565BC ; but we now believe that the true date of these coins is some sixty years later . |
| 14 | Hopefully , I know we 've got problems with those er colleagues who lost their jobs since that time , but we now feel that we are providing the best advice , the best service in respect of advising members on and the acquired rights directive . |
| 15 | Except for the first two days , the decaying component is well fitted by an exponential with 18-day time constant , but we now see that the glitch also leaves a nondecaying increase in rotation rate . |
| 16 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 17 | He still stressed the desirability of banning the fascists but he now stated that anti-semitism had added a new dimension to the problem since 1934 . |
| 18 | But it now appears that in this form the ‘ Treasury view ’ was a transient formula . |
| 19 | But it now seems that people completely unknown to me , absolute strangers , have been giving me what my mother used to call ‘ old-fashioned looks ’ or furtive , sidelong glances . |
| 20 | The meaning of this phrase was never very clear , but it now seems that whatever it meant , the availability of these two remedies is not limited in this way . |
| 21 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |