Example sentences of "now it [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it happens that when some substances crystallize they find it easier to do so if some kind of irregularity is present . |
| 2 | Now it happens that everyone 's instinctive belief that the best site is at the ‘ centre of gravity ’ of the sources and markets is incorrect in this problem — the best site tends to be at the source or at a dominant market in many cases : this point failed totally to emerge . |
| 3 | Now it happens that this particular part of the beaver 's brain , because of its position in the total wiring diagram , is involved in the beaver 's dam-building behaviour . |
| 4 | Now it seemed that today would be the same . |
| 5 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 6 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
| 7 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 8 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 9 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 10 | Where once she had been desperate not to miss Johnny , now it seemed that she was fearful at the thought of meeting him . |
| 11 | And now it seemed that she had his understanding — and his love . |
| 12 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 13 | But now it says that telecommunications is a strategically important market . |
| 14 | Now it says that groups like the British National Party hope to feed on the ultra-nationalist rhetoric of the French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and the rise of neo-Nazism amidst the mass unemployment and economic hardships of eastern Germany . |
| 15 | Now it hopes that the rest of Europe might prove a similarly fertile source of work . |
| 16 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 17 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 18 | Now it seems that some things work , especially those like the AEC that are associated with what has come to be described as the problem-focused/task-centred approach ( Roberts , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | As for that lot from Catgut Alley , why , now it seems that the big beardy one you saw is an old accomplice o' Mutton 's . |
| 20 | Now it seems that the cuts have clipped his wings . |
| 21 | Now it seems that the disease builds over a period of years . |
| 22 | Now it seems that was n't the case . |
| 23 | For now it seems that even the eels from America spawn , and then die , in the Sargasso Sea . |
| 24 | And now it seems that I will go to my grave without meeting that special person . |
| 25 | Now it seems that — after nearly 40 years in which pop has been seen as a threat to our children — it is finally safe to unlock your daughters . |
| 26 | Now it seems that makes them sympathetic to those who — quite literally — get away with murder . |
| 27 | Now it seems that the goodwill that once existed has been largely destroyed . |
| 28 | In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill . |
| 29 | Now it appears that the four main front runners will continue to dominate the scene though we are likely to witness some elbowing in the scrum . |
| 30 | Now it appears that nothing can prevent the enthusiastic fossilisation of all that remains of the revolutionary structures of 1919–39 . |