Example sentences of "it be now that " in BNC.

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1 How long ago would it be now that you had it all done ?
2 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 .
3 It 's now that I need it . ’
4 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
5 It is now that the band requires an accountant .
6 It is now that the marked effect of training can most clearly be felt .
7 It is now that a man may pick the flowers and fruit of his lifetime , and complete his gardens of philosophy .
8 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 .
9 It is now that the final form of the book begins to emerge , and the researcher has to begin to withdraw from the research group .
10 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 ) .
11 So it was when my life began so it is now that I am a man .
12 THE spring Town Crier came yesterday and what a terrific read it is now that it is being produced by Darlington College of Technology students .
13 It was now that Popham Down wrote his footnote .
14 It was now that mattered .
15 It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals .
16 It was now that gender became a significant factor .
17 It was now that he became ‘ converted ’ to Islam .
18 It was now that the true landlords , the Church and the nobility , sought to assert their half-forgotten rights of eviction and rent-raising in order to trap some of the profits from rising land values .
19 It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels .
20 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 .
21 I think it was now that Lili decided I stood in need of care .
22 It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity .
23 It was now that she started a canteen , run by a mother of eight , Gwenny Hughes .
24 It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes .
25 It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew .
26 Perhaps it was now that he appointed Ebroin , himself an able military leader , to be his archchaplain .
27 It was now that the gold backing of the currency came under strain and , pushed over by fear of invasion , actually broke .
28 It was now that Sean realised the bad decision that he had made .
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