Example sentences of "[to-vb] now [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will be more difficult to sustain is the expectation that labour should show total dedication to work now that lifetime employment is becoming ever more the exception . |
| 2 | i think we all have to accept now that the only team in a position to catch the scum are Battyburn and in answer to Rodgers question I personally would like to see us lose the game 4/5–0 , this will at least allow someone to close the gap on them . |
| 3 | i think we all have to accept now that the only team in a position to catch the scum are Battyburn and in answer to Rodgers question I personally would like to see us lose the game 4/5–0 , this will at least allow someone to close the gap on them . |
| 4 | ‘ What does it take to convince you ? ’ she demanded sharply over rising despair , wondering why she was even bothering to try now that their affair was in its death throes . |
| 5 | Just to know that he was there could bring a smile to the face and to know now that he was n't brought an ineffable sadness to them all . |
| 6 | Rosalind would have to know now that she had n't posted the letter ! |
| 7 | ‘ It would greatly help the case for the chapter if he were to indicate now that his party supported the Maastricht Treaty . ’ |
| 8 | To suggest now that we should commit ourselves to establishing a funding council to carry out certain functions is to change the position that the hon. Gentleman adopted in Committee and my understanding of the Opposition 's view — |
| 9 | But to hear now that That Woman was living in the Dower House , the very woman on whose account his mother had been incarcerated there , filled him with such distress that he could barely find the strength to be civil . |
| 10 | Nor , it became clear , did he wish to talk about the role he intended to play now that Artai was secure upon his throne . |
| 11 | She said , ‘ And what are you going to do now that you 've read all the children 's books ? ’ |
| 12 | What we do n't know is what they intend to do now that they are here . |
| 13 | She complained of too little to do now that she lived in the village as companion to an elderly lady . |
| 14 | Richard Kerr is consultant neurosurgeon there , Richard tell me a bit about this , what , what sort of things does it allow you to do now that you could n't do in , in the past ? |
| 15 | Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia . |
| 16 | Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia . |
| 17 | With the wisdom of hindsight , it is easy to see now that the Stag 's troublesome V8 , designed and inadequately developed in-house by Triumph before it merged with Leyland , should have been ditched and replaced by Rover 's proven ex-Buick 3.5-litre V8 ( still used by Land-Rover , Morgan , TVR and others ) that was already on the shelf . |
| 18 | He searched through the desk for various necessary documents that the bureaucratic world would demand to see now that he was returning to it , and took them to the suitcase in the bedroom , together with his agent 's letter . |
| 19 | It should be possible to see now that the tone-unit has a place in a range of phonological units that are in a hierarchical relationship : speech consists of a number of utterances ( the largest unit that we shall consider ) ; each utterance consists of one or more tone-units ; each tone-unit consists of one or more feet ; each foot consists of one or more syllables ; each syllable consists of one or more phonemes . |
| 20 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 21 | Having spent years attacking her as the author of awful policies , it is not credible to claim now that her departure hardly matters . |
| 22 | And his head swooped , his mouth meeting hers as she moaned , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , unable to fight now that she was in his arms . |
| 23 | Though it was so strange and so cryptic , Boy understood this call , because he began to understand now that there are different kinds of wanting someone . |
| 24 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 25 | More and more users are able to switch now that the alternatives have become increasingly available . |
| 26 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |
| 27 | Roman Catholic priests protested at the special treatment given to Anglicans who want to convert now that women are entering their ranks . |
| 28 | It 's too late to argue now that the forms should have been available earlier . |
| 29 | Even the Commission acknowledges that 10 per cent of the EC 's annual budget — about £3 billion — is still being lost in fraud ; it is a point the British will not forbear to mention now that they are being asked to pay an extra £1 billion per year into EC coffers . |
| 30 | On economic and monetary union , it would be irresponsible for any Government to ask the people of Britain to decide now that we should adopt , at a future date , a single European currency which will have far-reaching implications for the conduct of monetary and economic union . |