Example sentences of "but it now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lafayette ’ may have been the name of a French noble woman , but it now refers to a brand new and stunning range of carpets launched by Stoddard Templeton . |
| 2 | The role of symbol had been a necessary and successful one for de Gaulle up to this point , but it now became much more problematic . |
| 3 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 4 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 5 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 6 | The insurance giant has had an office in Glasgow 's West Regent Street since 1988 but it now plans to purchase the four times bigger and brighter Fitzpatrick House in the heart of the city . |
| 7 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 8 | It may well have shocked listeners in 1957 , but it now comes as the most delightful interlude — genuine , not mocking , in its evocations . |
| 9 | Garlic was probably originally indigenous to Asia , but it now grows widely wherever there is a warm climate , and it is perfectly hardy in northern Europe and North America though the flavour is less good in cooler latitudes . |
| 10 | But it now appears that in this form the ‘ Treasury view ’ was a transient formula . |
| 11 | The Tories ' share of the vote is not as high as in the 1950s under Winston Churchill , Sir Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan , but it now appears impregnable to attacks by the other parties . |
| 12 | and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be |
| 13 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 14 | The deadline on the payment , which is the final tranche of a total Bond investment of more than £154m , is early November , but it now looks as though the money could be paid over as early as next week . |
| 15 | They had hoped to be back at the beginning of next season but it now looks unlikely to be until half-way through it . |
| 16 | MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over . |
| 17 | But it now looks as though something similar can happen in a failing computer . |
| 18 | The initiative was not continued , but it now looks as if a new partner has been found in the shape of the Venice Soprintendenza . |
| 19 | But it now looks as though pressure for earlier action may surface at the United Nations in the autumn , led by Canada and Malta . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 22 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 25 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |
| 26 | But it now seems to be established that there is no clear-cut difference in the role of environmental factors in so-called ‘ neurotic ’ or ‘ psychotic ’ depressions ( see Paykel et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | But it now seems possible that Pask will never come back to court . |
| 28 | Cars were being left on a fast stretch of road outside Woodham Cottages , in Newton Aycliffe , but it now seems likely the owner of the business will make an arrangement to park his taxis on land at the Woodham Equestrian Centre to reduce the dangers . |
| 29 | San Diego-based TeleSoft Inc says its TeleAda-Exec Ada-oriented real-time executive , is now available for MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 target systems : up to now , it has been available only for Motorola 68000 and Intel 80386 targets , but it now works in conjunction with the TeleGen2 Ada VAX-host/R3000-target Cross Development System . |
| 30 | But it now has its own research and development facility in the US , and has recently opened its own automated assembly line in London . |