Example sentences of "now it [verb] as [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality .
2 Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely .
3 Now it seemed as if this ‘ law of parallelism ’ could be extended to the whole history of life on earth .
4 Now it seemed as if his arms tapered all the way down to his fingertips where they lay lightly on the wheel of the Audi .
5 She had recovered her figure after the birth of both her children very quickly , but now it looked as if she was four months pregnant .
6 The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it .
7 Now it looked as if that , too , were coming apart .
8 It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius !
9 But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn .
10 Now it looked as if the choice had been taken away from her .
11 Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian .
12 Now it looks as if nothing could stop West Germany taking the lead with her unbeatable combination of credentials : guilt , enthusiasm , material interest and money .
13 Now it looks as if only the banking directive , adopted by the Council of Ministers in December 1989 , will be operative in time .
14 Now it looks as if the wrong side won .
15 Now it looks as if history may be repeated .
16 And now it looks as if the worst fears of the Foreign Office have been realised .
17 The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act .
18 Now it looks as if not all of that will be called , but we ca n't be sure at this stage .
19 Now it looks as if Leicester 's manager , formerly at Darlington , is set to pay the club back by putting a brand new star their way .
20 Only now it looks as if it was n't .
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