Example sentences of "[adj] now that " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 2 | no , but she sort of said , about her mum and dad , I mean , it 's true , 'cos her dad was on overseas pay and he was in Cyprus , and it 's it 's different now that they 're back in England . |
| 3 | I 'm OK now that you 're here , Clive darling . |
| 4 | Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth , |
| 5 | Do n't you think it 's a little unrealistic now that the British are n't thinking more in concrete terms of bringing troops back home from Germany ? |
| 6 | The cost of any scheme would be very large and I should make clear now that the Government can not contemplate funding expenditure on this scale from public funds . |
| 7 | It is clear now that as well as a strain on the nerves , the nine are physically very demanding . |
| 8 | I hope I have made it clear now that although ( 1 ) to ( 5 ) are basically the same structure , each modification is itself a sufficient change to make it a different kind of game — and thus the experience is a different one according to which is chosen ( either by the teacher or the participants themselves ) . |
| 9 | It should be clear now that whereas for Marx it is one 's economic class position ( crucially how one relates to productive property ) that determines much else in one 's life , for the Functionalist it is the status one has established through developing marketable skills and the value put on them by society that determines one 's life chances . |
| 10 | It seemed clear now that there was a side to Elise which Merrill had n't known at all . |
| 11 | It was quite clear now that one of these two would be the winner of the Golden Putter . |
| 12 | The government guidance er in P G three makes it very clear now that it 's an issue we do have to address and if we do n't for land requirement . |
| 13 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 14 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 15 | Uprights are traditional British favourites and are even more popular now that storage for all the extras has been integrated into their design . |
| 16 | Auntie Ethel 's old school friend , Elaine , not so popular now that she was Rich and Successful . |
| 17 | They are still the most glamorous club in Britain , but our confidence is so high now that we could take them apart . |
| 18 | " This Meeting consider themselves authorised to regulate the practice to be hereafter adopted in Smithies — and direct now that he who comes to the smithy first prepared for work shall have preference in finishing all his work of every kind before any other can pretend to interfere . " |
| 19 | What effect such opposition could have remains doubtful now that the Halls , through Cameron Hall Developments , have a controlling interest in the club . |
| 20 | He could be more personal now that he did n't have to go through a nosy newspaper office . |
| 21 | Rachel was getting bored now that Billy had used up all his funny faces . |
| 22 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 23 | She stared at him , finding the likeness to Han more prominent now that he was smiling . |
| 24 | My nerve-ends were even more painfully ablaze now that I was vertical . |
| 25 | Scarlet felt relieved now that Constance was back : she had the sensation of one abandoned in a pit who sees a face peering down , aglow with friendly interest . |
| 26 | Occasionally a garishly painted truck passed us , raising a cloud of dust , and away to the west , hanging over us and clearly visible now that the clouds had lifted , the coastal range of the cordilleras towered pale and trembling in the heat . |
| 27 | Empty , it had a lingering ambience of warmth , and as she went inside it was even more noticeable now that there were people in it . |
| 28 | The man was more cautious now that his friend had been killed , and advanced slowly , brandishing the whip . |
| 29 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 30 | ‘ There are discussions in Belgrade tonight and I am convinced now that we will go . ’ |