Example sentences of "but now that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that Atholl has given way and condescended to meet the people — ‘ He is a diplomat , ’ said John Stewart . |
| 2 | Real-time applications used to require coding exclusively in assembly language whereas the house keeping tasks could be coded in C. But now that the practices of software engineering are coming to bear on DSP projects , the emphasis is on a system approach ensuring quality becomes an intrinsic aspect of design . |
| 3 | But now that the patience of the exchange markets is exhausted and Mr Lawson finds he is unable to raise base rates any more , the chickens are coming home to roost . |
| 4 | Rose wished that they could be married quickly but now that there was nothing in the way of it Moran grew cautious and evasive . |
| 5 | After Luke and then Maggie had left for London there were still enough people to dull the heartache and emptiness but now that all the girls had gone it was as if the whole house had been cleaned . |
| 6 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 7 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 8 | But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ? |
| 9 | But now that America 's recession has arrived , testing his view , the consensus has moved towards him . |
| 10 | But now that it is in power , and dependent on an assembly made up largely of landowners , the government seems to find that option less attractive . |
| 11 | In June Berne will swap its traditional open-outcry system for telephone trading ; but now that the big banks will no longer deal there in stocks quoted elsewhere , its future looks dim . |
| 12 | She had not meant to say it out loud , but now that she had , she almost explained . |
| 13 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 14 | But now that the truth is out on both sides , they are surely singularly out of place . |
| 15 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 16 | But now that it is finished I hope it makes an enjoyable and enlightening read , and puts the record right in a number of respects . |
| 17 | Catholicism , for centuries , allied itself with conservative forces opposed to progress but now that elements within the church have come out in favour of change , they appear to be opting for a more socialist , rather than capitalist , line . |
| 18 | But now that John Gribbin has made it known ( Letters , 26 January ) that the term ( and presumably the concept ) ‘ centrifugal force ’ is favoured by the relativists , I am beginning to have second thoughts . |
| 19 | But now that I think further about it , I am not sure Miss Kenton spoke quite so boldly that day . |
| 20 | Granny 's son had been a gamekeeper on the estate , but now that he had gone elsewhere to work Sir Benson had given Granny notice that she must quit the cottage . |
| 21 | The following memorandum was presented by Vial , and read by the secretary : ‘ When the Members of the Veterinary College were occupied by objects to which I was in no wise competent I was absolutely silent — but now that it is a question to chuse [ sic ] a convenient situation for the establishment of the College , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give my advice on this important point . |
| 22 | But now that retirement is just around the corner we are all really looking forward to spending more time there . |
| 23 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 24 | But now that the worst of the weather is behind us and the days are drawing out , you should have a chance to catch up . |
| 25 | But now that you are reaching voting age and puberty , and will inevitably soon experience the same condition , I must tell you that my penis is fluorescent green and that I have five foreskins . |
| 26 | I sympathised with Norman Lamont when his Access Card dealings were disclosed , but now that feeling has evaporated . |
| 27 | A big , glossy hardback with lavish colour pictures , it is handsome enough but now that so many general cookbooks include first-class vegetarian recipes it seems an expensive extra . |
| 28 | ‘ But now that I have made myself available for England again it 's important to be part of this Championship . ’ |
| 29 | But now that the tour will go ahead , the players will leave for Delhi three days after Christmas as originally planned . |
| 30 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |