Example sentences of "now that they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that they threaten themselves , the farmers are pleading for action . |
| 2 | Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy . |
| 3 | We must assume now that they know about our plan to attack Bremen , but not when or where we will strike . |
| 4 | Now that they know about the money , there is always a possibility that they 'll tell the Germans . |
| 5 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , now that they 've got your wife and daughter they have , as I said , changed the rules . ’ |
| 7 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 8 | Aesthetically it 's a dead loss now that they 've tried to modernize everything . |
| 9 | And then you 've got to include St Anton have n't you , now that they 've solved the puking Swede problem . |
| 10 | They , they think now that they 've got a feeling that this might be taken out , all these testing schemes and stuff because I said to them , While their argument is that while she 's doing these SAT schemes , and she 's following this , she 's all worked up , |
| 11 | On the acquisition front we retained David , Barry and all the staff at Argyll Services on board in September and now that they 've got used to our paperwork they 'll be looking forward to showing us what they can do in 1993 . |
| 12 | Now that they 've split into two parts , erm , I do n't know which one that belongs to . |
| 13 | Now that they 've gone back to school she has a bit of a job with the I 've got ta go you know , I said we 'll have so many people round talking you know she said he 'd got a terrible ! |
| 14 | Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth , |
| 15 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 16 | Standard procedure after an election is to review the spending promises which were put in to please voters and , now that they have served their turn , cut some of them out . |
| 17 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 18 | They have not handed over the arguments to be articulated by lawyers and scientists even now that they have taken the city and the tannery to court in a law-suit claim for $31 million . |
| 19 | Many people make their retirement the occasion for the ‘ holiday of a lifetime ’ , now that they have the time to indulge themselves . |
| 20 | Perhaps the adults will understand that now that they have been arrested . |
| 21 | Goneril and Regan used fraud to gain power , and now that they have it , no longer need to dissimulate . |
| 22 | It is even worse now that they have got to pay V A T on those bills as well . |
| 23 | Would my right hon. Friend care to come to the county town of Lancaster to see how outstandingly well our schools , under local management , are spending their money now that they have been freed from an extravagant county council which never had the right priorities and always deprived our schools of the money that they should have had ? |
| 24 | And their third album , which is actually untitled , should do even better now that they have notched up a few hit singles to go along with the hit album . |
| 25 | ‘ Our comments have gone unheeded by central government but surely they must pay attention now that they have been reiterated by a person of his standing . ’ |
| 26 | Now that they have achieved that ambition ahead of schedule , Stokes has the chance to take a team into Europe for the first time next season . |
| 27 | All these aims will be much easier to achieve now that they have met their customers face to face and talked over their problems . |
| 28 | It seems that they make so many now that they do n't have the same |
| 29 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 30 | Times are so hard for the major Japanese computer manufacturers right now that they plan to lobby the government for financial aid to keep their surplus employees on the payroll . |