Example sentences of "now to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now to be agile you 've got to be able to let your body give to gravity and then pull away from gravity , alternating very quickly er that gives you agility .
2 Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away .
3 It 's easier now to be honest .
4 Art follows wealth , it was said , as it did in the city-states of the Italian Renaissance ; and it may continue to do so , even if the new patron happens now to be democratic and many-headed .
5 I have changed enough now to be shocked by the ease with which I let go of my Black identity , situated as it was in my real subordination on the basis of race and class , in exchange for an illusory equality with white men on the sexual plane .
6 It was this principle that seemed now to be inadequate .
7 In the future , town planning was not just about scheme preparation for coordinated development , or the rational control of land use , or even spatial strategies for cities ; it was now to be involved in regional economic affairs , though just how had yet to be demonstrated .
8 Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers .
9 We must invest now to be ready . ’
10 We have had a lot of delay getting suitable material from John Ranford and Chris Roles regarding Will Aid but I gather that this is now to be ready by the end of the month and hopefully Euan will be starting at the beginning of July if we can plan accordingly .
11 The organiser of those packages is now to be liable to his customers for your hotel , its facilities , service , standards , etc .
12 After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings .
13 The inclusion of this demand , in the context of feminism , may seem now to be obvious , but the struggle to make sexuality a respectable platform was an acrimonious one .
14 As a result , the scheme is now to be permanent and there are plans to extend it to the Appold Street and Moorgate offices .
15 What had appeared then to be contentment turned out now to be cold loneliness .
16 So how can John Major claim now to be surprised by them ? — .
17 If the waiters were curious about the room being in darkness they neither said nor did anything which indicated it ; they had been in the hotel business for far too many years now to be surprised by the antics or activities of the guests .
18 This figure is now to be index-linked .
19 Last year the general assembly gave to the Board of Social Responsibility a task of coordinating the work of the church in this field and we are proud now to be able to report to the general assembly that the work done by the assembly 's various Boards and by numerous local initiatives make the Church of Scotland the nation 's leading provider of services to the victims of H I V and to their families delivering both the most extensive and the most comprehensive service to these people within Scotland .
20 I was too preoccupied with what I felt : about the baby , about Graham , about now to be able to visualize the future .
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