Example sentences of "that now " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 2 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 3 | All steps in corridors were replaced by ramps so that now wheelchair users can gain access to any part of the Town Hall . |
| 4 | So that now , with the dubious benefit of hindsight and a keen awareness that memory and retrospective versions of reality are often skewed , I feel the subjective account must of necessity become part of the ethnography in which I play all of the parts . |
| 5 | Leonard has admitted to a general feeling in the family that Horace was somewhat ‘ arrogant ’ , this son that now wore the mantle : ‘ My father was the eldest but his health and nature ( an interesting , significant addition ) prevented him taking over . ’ |
| 6 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 7 | We tried to identify distant hills , but in the dense heat haze that now hung about us , we could only just see Whernside and Penyghent . |
| 8 | But it is hard to see it making much headway against the ideology that now pervades academic institutions . |
| 9 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 10 | ‘ There were so many similarities between the Pan Am crash and this one that now I lean towards sabotage , ’ said Les Filotas , one of the four Canadian dissenters . |
| 11 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 12 | ‘ Many people have suffered from sales falling through and from house-buying chains , and some of our vendors feel that now 's as good a time as any to sell . ’ |
| 13 | The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful . |
| 14 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 15 | The church steps are lined with candles , burning all the time , so that now they rise from a layer of wax four inches high . |
| 16 | Even Alan Phillips , the former Wales hooker who became Cardiff coach this season , concedes that now is not the moment for his players . |
| 17 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 18 | The advice is the same except that now the ‘ dangers ’ are : |
| 19 | However , in the midst of a changing countryside , it is rural and suburban gardens rather than fields and hedgerows that now provide some of the best havens for these mammals , as they do for much of our native wildlife . |
| 20 | The development of Clayton 's first course — a guinea fowl terrine with apple , celery and shallot dressing — is typical of many that now come out of kitchen . |
| 21 | The folly was a gift from the Sultan of Oman , just one of the many presents that now adorn the property . |
| 22 | Chestnuts line the edge of the small park and afford the house a dignified protection from the lorries that now hurtle by on the main road . |
| 23 | They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city . |
| 24 | The slump in household saving , from 14% of disposable income in 1980 to just 5% last year , was partly to blame for the rise in inflation that now plagues the government . |
| 25 | Some thoughtful Germans , such as Volker Rühe , general secretary of the ruling Christian Democrats , argue that now more than ever the Europeans should speed moves to form a multinational force that includes German soldiers . |
| 26 | If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail . |
| 27 | The question that now clamours for an answer is clear : why in the Exodus complaint stories does God immediately respond by performing miracles of salvation , while in the Numbers stories he replies with miracles of devastating destruction , or , in the case of Numbers 20 , with salvation overshadowed by terrible condemnation ? |
| 28 | Ironically , they began as buskers , working the same Irish streets that now offer up a hundred and one variations of their roots ' music . |
| 29 | A Shamen show is designed so you do n't just stand and stare at the band : and though the live act might be the heart of the show , the spectacle of Colin ( cropped Aberdeen curls , Trotsky shades ) , and Will ( shoulder length braided locks , shabby green fatigues ) is only part of an evening of light , music and effects that now involves around ten people . |
| 30 | It was some such hope which united the movement that now coalesced from all points of the spectrum . |