Example sentences of "was now that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was now that Popham Down wrote his footnote . |
| 2 | Studying the map back at the motor cycle , he saw that it had once carried what was now that branch of the Makaa River which flowed down the valley below the track up to the President 's cabin . |
| 3 | It was now that mattered . |
| 4 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 5 | It was now that gender became a significant factor . |
| 6 | It was now that he became ‘ converted ’ to Islam . |
| 7 | It was now that the true landlords , the Church and the nobility , sought to assert their half-forgotten rights of eviction and rent-raising in order to trap some of the profits from rising land values . |
| 8 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |
| 9 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 10 | I think it was now that Lili decided I stood in need of care . |
| 11 | It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity . |
| 12 | It was now that she started a canteen , run by a mother of eight , Gwenny Hughes . |
| 13 | It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes . |
| 14 | It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was now that he appointed Ebroin , himself an able military leader , to be his archchaplain . |
| 16 | It was now that the gold backing of the currency came under strain and , pushed over by fear of invasion , actually broke . |
| 17 | Berlin 's line was now that Hess had flown to England to suggest peace , an idea , they said , that the British government was terrified might catch on . |
| 18 | Also what struck me was now that they they 're not fighting the Japanese erm they 're not required to make the sacrifices of war that they were so perhaps they 're going to think right let's see what we can make out of this , I do n't , I no longer have to pay X tax because |
| 19 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 20 | It was now that Sean realised the bad decision that he had made . |