Example sentences of "[conj] it be now that " in BNC.
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1 | But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on . |
2 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
3 | And so we have and it 's now that the war 's over , we 'll now see the press pressing and probing and trying to erm undermine John Major in the way they 've erm |
4 | This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life . |
5 | 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 . |