Example sentences of "now that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service . |
| 2 | Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark . |
| 3 | It was too much , now that it had happened . |
| 4 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |
| 5 | What had she got to lose , she seemed to be saying , now that it had come to this ? |
| 6 | The Trees had crossed half of the floor now and the nearest one — Fenella could see now that it had been a Larch , elegant and slender — was already inching its way across the slimy black pool of the Melanisms , creating a kind of bridge . |
| 7 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 8 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 9 | It was something that she would never have thought possible and now that it had actually happened , now that she knew she was n't dreaming , she wanted it to last . |
| 10 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 11 | Now that it had disaffiliated it recognized the necessity of strengthening this co-operation . |
| 12 | Tears stung her eyes as she heard his anger and she turned away , rubbing a hand over her eyes to wipe them away , but it seemed impossible to stop the flow now that it had begun . |
| 13 | Only now that it had happened it was n't in the least funny . |
| 14 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |
| 15 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 16 | Suppose now that it lends 90 per cent of that deposit in sterling to a UK resident who spends it in such a way that it is redeposited with the UK bank ; also that the remaining 10 per cent is held by the overseas bank as an interest-bearing sterling deposit with the UK bank . |
| 17 | She ate quickly , partly because she was so used to eating alone now that it seemed more a practicality than a pleasure , and partly so that the servants might have their own dinner at leisure in the kitchen . |
| 18 | At a meeting on 26th March 1860 , the Town Council met to elect its twelve trustees , now that it controlled the School . |
| 19 | ‘ Now that it has been shown that it adds to the greenhouse effect we will start a programme to further reduce the use of SF 6 and to study replacements in the foundries , said Sven Plahte of Hydro 's magnesium division . |
| 20 | Delegates at Blackpool voted overwhelmingly to re-admit the EETPU now that it has merged with the engineers to form the million-strong AEEU . |
| 21 | Now that it has flown the nest and decamped to Arden Hills , Minnesota , Control Data Systems Inc feels confident enough to start making acquisitions , and for its first , it has gone for Evernet Systems Inc , a Los Angeles network systems integrator that inter alia sells NetFrame Systems Inc servers . |
| 22 | Now that it has a published price list it can start to take orders . |
| 23 | Now that it has flown the nest and decamped to Arden Hills , Minnesota , Control Data Systems Inc feels confident enough to start making acquisitions , and for its first , it has gone for Evernet Systems Inc , a Los Angeles network systems integrator that sells NetFrame Systems Inc servers . |
| 24 | Tata Consultancy Services , the Indian company , says it has done a lot of work for Unix System Labs on Unix device drivers and hopes to get more work now that it has bought into the firm ( UX No 378 ) . |
| 25 | Although Xcelerated Systems Inc may have beaten it to Hewlett-Packard Co 's door ( UX No 396 ) , now that it has settled its difference with Apple Computer Inc ( UX No 393 ) , Quorum Software Systems Inc is back in the running with its Latitude Mac-on-Unix solution . |
| 26 | However , now that it has been decided that a Sunday game of 50 overs per side is a better idea ‘ for cricket ’ , many are already beginning to rue the demise of the 40-overs game . |
| 27 | Now that it has been shown in Liverpool that there are powers to confiscate offending equipment — as there always have been in Scotland — may I ask my hon. Friend to draw those powers to the attention of local authorities — and , through the Home Office , the police — so that the public may be protected from this menace ? |
| 28 | Afterwards Fogarty admitted : ‘ I thought a North-West win would never come for me , but now that it has I 'm a happy man . ’ |
| 29 | But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there . |
| 30 | Now that it 's been revealed that this really was her true story and not a jolly pack of lies , there 's no fun in reading it . |