Example sentences of "now it [verb] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it happens that when some substances crystallize they find it easier to do so if some kind of irregularity is present . |
| 2 | He had resigned Clairvaux ; he had agreed to do homage to his brother ; and now it looked as though all the work of 1182 was going to be undone . |
| 3 | For a long time he had wondered about the history of this little family , now it looked as though he was going to find out . |
| 4 | Paul Lane had warned him that Phyllis liked to play things her own way , and now it looked as though she did indeed . |
| 5 | And now it looked as though she would n't be living here after all . |
| 6 | Now it seems as though we ca n't build anything anywhere . |
| 7 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 8 | Now it looks as though the Council of Europe might step in and establish a small network of centres of excellence for postgraduate research and training . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've waited for years to have a Formula One world champion like Mansell — and now it looks as though we wo n't be able to use him . |
| 10 | And now it looks as though I 'm going to be tied up with television work pretty regularly . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now it looks as though the mystery woman could have been Sara . ’ |
| 12 | But now it looks as though I 'll have to . ’ |
| 13 | Now it looks as though Dyke is set to triumph again over BBC and BSkyB , who show FA Cup ties and England matches . |