Example sentences of "now it [verb] [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 | Now it happens that everyone 's instinctive belief that the best site is at the ‘ centre of gravity ’ of the sources and markets is incorrect in this problem — the best site tends to be at the source or at a dominant market in many cases : this point failed totally to emerge . |
| 3 | Now it happens that this particular part of the beaver 's brain , because of its position in the total wiring diagram , is involved in the beaver 's dam-building behaviour . |
| 4 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 5 | Now it seemed that today would be the same . |
| 6 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 7 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
| 8 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 9 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 10 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 11 | Where once she had been desperate not to miss Johnny , now it seemed that she was fearful at the thought of meeting him . |
| 12 | And now it seemed that she had his understanding — and his love . |
| 13 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 14 | But now it says that telecommunications is a strategically important market . |
| 15 | Now it says that groups like the British National Party hope to feed on the ultra-nationalist rhetoric of the French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and the rise of neo-Nazism amidst the mass unemployment and economic hardships of eastern Germany . |
| 16 | Now it hopes that the rest of Europe might prove a similarly fertile source of work . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Paul Lane had warned him that Phyllis liked to play things her own way , and now it looked as though she did indeed . |
| 20 | And now it looked as though she would n't be living here after all . |
| 21 | Meanwhile my mind 's racing , or at least trying to race ; right now it feels like it 's stuck at the side of the track trying to get its legs out of its tracksuit bottoms and hopping around and falling down while the race takes place elsewhere . |
| 22 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 23 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 24 | Now it seems that some things work , especially those like the AEC that are associated with what has come to be described as the problem-focused/task-centred approach ( Roberts , 1990 ) . |
| 25 | As for that lot from Catgut Alley , why , now it seems that the big beardy one you saw is an old accomplice o' Mutton 's . |
| 26 | Now it seems that the cuts have clipped his wings . |
| 27 | Now it seems that the disease builds over a period of years . |
| 28 | Now it seems that was n't the case . |
| 29 | For now it seems that even the eels from America spawn , and then die , in the Sargasso Sea . |
| 30 | And now it seems that I will go to my grave without meeting that special person . |