Example sentences of "[vb pp] now that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should all this be conveniently forgotten now that the boycott is about to be lifted ? |
| 2 | Campbell said the threat of legal action in Cheshire may have been averted now that the SSD had substantially re-drafted its contract . |
| 3 | The suit was originally filed in February in the US federal courts in California and is being pursued now that attempts at an out-of-court settlement have failed . |
| 4 | So what may be expected now that the deadline for disposals by the major brewers has passed ? |
| 5 | He has decided now that horses are the thing . |
| 6 | We 've decided now that you you must n't treat me like a chi child . |
| 7 | It is generally accepted now that to speak of self-sufficiency in the face of such quantities of material is absurd . |
| 8 | It is accepted now that many of our nursery rhymes are based on factual people or occurrences . |
| 9 | It is accepted now that drinking water in many areas contains certain pollutants which are undesirable . |
| 10 | The ideas are so well accepted now that , whilst the intellectual debts owed to Hess , and to Vine & Matthews , are still acknowledged in passing in modern geological textbooks , their crucial early papers on the subject are seldom specifically cited . |
| 11 | In January 1937 , Nizan asked rhetorically : " Is it going to be argued now that it is preferable for Spain to be sacrificed ? " |
| 12 | She was glad to be back , glad she had survived and felt now that she had a purpose she had not had before . |
| 13 | In December 1941 there were risks of Allied ships being bombed now that the Germans had improved their Norwegian airfields . |
| 14 | The large question of the limits upon royal power will be discussed in a later chapter , but it can be said now that , although the Crown put pressure upon both Houses , they were capable of obstinacy and independence . |
| 15 | This old man made now that woman ring . |
| 16 | His face looked drawn now that the flush of exertion from the last descent had left it . |
| 17 | Governments , however , have on occasions intervened in foreign exchange markets to influence their respective rates of exchange , although a greater variety of currencies has been used now that exchange rates are no longer pegged exclusively to the dollar . |
| 18 | There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up . |
| 19 | 1993 itself will undoubtedly be equally as difficult a year in many ways at 1992 but we are better equipped now that new foundations have been laid for building an effective and successful engineering and construction consultancy business for the nineties . |
| 20 | Well we 've already agreed now that we write to them |
| 21 | Only when you can see words that we 've got now that adapted from words then . |
| 22 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 23 | Food , desperately needed now that produce from last year 's harvest is running out , had become garbage . |
| 24 | Is she really like like isolated now that I 'm at boarding school really |
| 25 | " The problem , dear lady , " he said quietly , his accent more pronounced now that he had calmed down , " is that a certain Madam Lundy was sent a telegram yesterday informing her of the whereabouts of a certain Patrick Lundy . " |
| 26 | He summoned over the waiter , who was chastened now that a man had arrived , and ordered wine to supplement Blanche 's mineral water . |
| 27 | The sort of affair that would not be tolerated now that he held the stewardship of the Service . |
| 28 | The value of an accurate , objective staging system can not be overemphasised now that large studies have shown adjuvant therapies to be beneficial in selected groups . |
| 29 | It is generally recognized now that a totally planned economy is no longer a desirable or viable option for socialists , in either the East or the West . |
| 30 | Maria had loved radio with a passion from early childhood , her faith in its power to survive unimpaired through all the years when television threatened to make it obsolete , and justified now that it was enjoying an upsurge in popularity in so many countries , thriving new stations almost daily news at present . |