Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adj] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One consequence of the blaze in St Pierre was that it is difficult now to diagnose how much of the damage was a direct result of the nuee ardente , and how much a result of the fires it started . |
| 2 | Since then things have improved markedly and it is rare now to see such howlers as the Wirral Globe 's explanation of a 16K RAM as a chip with ‘ up to 16 000 different uses ’ . |
| 3 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 4 | If it is difficult now to concur with the Bioscope reviewer 's judgement that the film ‘ surpasses in technical achievement anything of its kind ever made in Britain , and at times soars to heights of directorial brilliance ’ , it 's still possible to understand how an audience that had been accustomed only to silent films might warm to the various acts on display . |
| 5 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 6 | He himself thought The Confidential Clerk to be his most profound play , but it is difficult now to see this . |