Example sentences of "now that [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SO NOW THAT WE 'VE DONE ALL THE PREPARATION , ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PUT YOUR PIZZA IN THE OVEN AND TUCK INTO THE FRESHEST-TASTING PIZZA IN TOWN . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , now that we 've decided that nothing is going to happen tonight that does n't happen every Saturday night in Pepe 's Bar , tell me — why on earth can you even think for a second that Miguel is falling for me ? ’ |
| 3 | And more especially now that we 've started raiding back against the MacIans and their friends . |
| 4 | And now that we 've started to look after the building we 've actually discovered some very exciting and interesting small clues about the building . |
| 5 | You get to talk to each other face-to-face … and now that we 've had all this publicity from the event , the slogan is really much more value to both of us . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't get involved with team matters now that we 've got a manager who can manage . |
| 7 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 8 | Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign . |
| 9 | I mean , I do I do take your point about the culture , and it and it 's it is a significant issue , which will take some time , I mean , probably wi with your experience in Social Services you 'll know that a substantial number of directors of Social Services are in fact female , and maybe one of the questions that we have to ask at a senior level is , our s senior erm , chief officers , erm , the fact that we 've got no woman , chief officer , and it may well be because now that we 've got an equal opportunities policy , that we may get applications from erm , very able women who see that we have got a clear commitment to equal opportunities demonstrated in this paper . |
| 10 | And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before . |
| 11 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 12 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 13 | My constituents , er many of them will be concerned personally because they may have a relative in the army , now that we 've got ground troops out there , or they may have a relative who 's lived there or , or you know , God forbid , some of , some of them may have relatives who , who are hostages . |
| 14 | And so I , I think the Americans are , are doing a good job , er but there are many many pitfalls ahead , and , and I hope that now that we 've got more troops there , that we will be er carefully consulted , er the whole time before any er drastic action is taken . |
| 15 | But now that we 've changed the thing we 've got to this is something we 've got to add into it |
| 16 | ‘ So , ’ she said brightly , ‘ where are you off to now that we 've finished shooting The Viking ? ’ |
| 17 | NOW that we 've won an Olympic gold medal , why not try a cycling holiday in the Pyrenees — even if you 're not quite Chris Boardman . |
| 18 | Now that we had decided to refer to the team leader ( who would be the care manager ) we devised a simple referral form and agreed that all communications with and from social services would be made in writing and filed in our patients ' notes . |
| 19 | Now that we have become accustomed to reading about , if not to eating , such unconventional combinations of foods as duck foie gras with turnips in a sweet-sour sauce composed of wine vinegar , sugar , sherry and port , plus the odd 30 grammes of truffles ; paupiettes of crayfish garnished with leaves of Brussels sprouts ; lobster mould with a sauce of carrots and port blended in turn with a sauce américaine , Pomiane 's innovations do n't sound very audacious . |
| 20 | ‘ As you can see , now that we have stopped exposing ourselves to Tramen-exhalation we have developed heads and can talk to each other for the first time . |
| 21 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 22 | 6.8 The observations above on the behaviour of these adjectives may appear to suggest a surprising degree of linguistic sophistication on the part of ordinary language users ; it may , though , seem less surprising now that we have recognized in the earlier part of this chapter the sense-qualifiers , since these distinctively qualify the property of a noun without constituting a qualification of the corresponding entity . |
| 23 | ‘ So what can we do now that we have lost Nigel ? |
| 24 | ‘ Now that we have killed off Rex and Woodbum , we seem to have killed off our chances of having them lead us to the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 25 | And now that we have snatched trendy World Cup in Waterford crystal from under the very proper nose of the Englishmen , we have won an additional right to talk about it . |
| 26 | Now that we have seen how this very simple pattern is created , we can go on to fancy it up a bit . |
| 27 | So probably we can widen it out and have a discussion here this morning now that we have seen some if not all of the stuff that 's coming from the respective head offices . |
| 28 | Now that we have seen the text , our suspicions and fears are confirmed . |
| 29 | Now that we have moved into what is essentially a total deregulation mode , I think that the opportunity has been lost for ever . |
| 30 | They are in danger of becoming complacent now that we have reached welcome lower levels of inflation , and are lulling themselves into believing that the problem has been ’ licked ’ . |