Example sentences of "[adj] now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very heartening now to witness some of the excellent combat shots taken at the time — Eighth Air Force bombers being escorted to places as far afield as Berlin with a mass of Packard Merlin-engined Mustangs indulging in a leapfrog technique which meant fighter waves could follow the bombers , fight and be relieved by another escort wave . |
| 2 | ‘ Also , a lot of the big names are getting less advertising work , and they are more prepared now to do editorial , which does mean more competition ’ . |
| 3 | He was quite prepared now to admit that he had been mistaken about Marie : that she was not thick and that , though she was not very articulate , she was , in her way , intelligent , kind , even sensitive . |
| 4 | ( Examination of the minutes referred to earlier suggests that the same is true of many other cases of closure in the Region , although the Director is careful now to propose closures on ‘ educational grounds ’ , and to direct that the–parents and School Council be consulted ) . |
| 5 | Would it , Celia debated with herself , be wrong now to ask her to become a godparent ? |
| 6 | They were willing now to start drawing the water out of the bottoms of Charles Roe 's old workings i.e. below Deep Level random . |
| 7 | I suppose if he 'd been alive , I 'd be afraid now to meet him . |
| 8 | It wants a more detailed report , but Llewellyn , though free now to continue playing , will eventually be subject to the same disciplinary measures as a player sent off at home . |
| 9 | So y w feel free now to ask questions I mean , you must have something that worries you about about this partic I can only really talk about the exam . |
| 10 | He himself had seen all he wanted of the Heathertons , and was free now to get on with his studies , without interruption . |
| 11 | ‘ And we seem disposed now to frame our laws as if everybody were alike innocent . ’ |
| 12 | We are too old now to make new friends . |
| 13 | I am too old now to play at any mock repentance . ’ |
| 14 | For myself , I am perhaps too old now to hope to return . |
| 15 | He went on ‘ I am too old now to think you can improve people 's natures . |
| 16 | It is almost impossible now to service a major client without such internal specialists at your elbow to help . |
| 17 | It is impossible now to say . |
| 18 | Not only is it impossible now to tell what the figures for the future will actually mean for the service , but even the informed observer or MP can not tell what has been happening . |
| 19 | It is appropriate now to consider how this solution may be generalized to include the case when the polarization is not aligned . |
| 20 | It is crucial now to consider the fundamental issues which analysis ought to address . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 22 | How ironic now to think that she 'd planned the event partly to prove she was capable of organising something major — to show Adam she could pull off a real coup . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's easy now to say he was hasty , yet at the time he just wanted to get out of the place because he was so ill . |
| 24 | It was easy now to decide what to do , both for outward appearances and for the comfort of his own spirit . |
| 25 | It is easy now to see that the problem of papal authority was the one problem of outstanding importance among many minor questions raised in these letters . |
| 26 | It was easy now to summon up the power behind her eyes . |
| 27 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 28 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 29 | It is easy now to understand why so many cameramen have filmed their own deaths . |
| 30 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |