Example sentences of "now [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Berlin church leaders , for instance , issued ‘ Four Urgent Pleas ’ on Monday night — the first being an appeal to East Germans ‘ from now on to exercise freedom of speech fearlessly , so that the discussion of our future can begin . ’ |
| 2 | THE search is now on to find the Boots Northern Ireland ‘ Children of the Year 1993 ’ . |
| 3 | You have to earn the right from now on to have holidays , because when you 're on holiday , nobody 's going to be paying you . |
| 4 | Is the time now right to teach these concepts in primary school science ? |
| 5 | Racism operates everywhere , working now openly , now secretly to stab black people in the back . |
| 6 | They have already had many changes of home in their comparatively short lives and it would unquestionably confuse and disturb them to leave England now only to return again in a matter of months should the Australian Family Court consider it right that they should make their home here . |
| 7 | It remained now only to encourage Charlie to talk , and here there was no difficulty . |
| 8 | I disclose it now only to help you save your niece . |
| 9 | Otherwise you could be changing status now only to change back again very shortly and it is not worth the upheaval for what would only be a marginal difference . ’ |
| 10 | Some of the larger literary claims made by the New Critics of the 1950s , by contrast , are to be quoted now only to indicate a mood forever lost . |
| 11 | And , needless now perhaps to say , such situations should mount up on a progressive scale so that they make an ongoing story . |
| 12 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 13 | It was ironic to realise she 'd once come close to despising her mother for that frailty , when she was battling hard now not to fall into the same trap herself . |
| 14 | He is writing a parody of some historical drama and one of the stage directions goes : [ quote ] Now not to do ! |
| 15 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 16 | The policy of the United Kingdom is now not to confer recognition on governments as opposed to on states . |
| 17 | She knew Rose well enough by now not to waste her breath protesting , so in her sugariest , most wheedling voice she said : |
| 18 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 19 | Certainly England will not complain if they are confronted with Costa Rica , and 1950 is a sufficiently dim memory now not to have bad vibes about the United States . |
| 20 | Certainly England will not complain if they are confronted with Costa Rica , and 1950 is a sufficiently dim memory now not to have bad vibes about the United States . |
| 21 | You know now not to play the hero , do n't you ? |
| 22 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 23 | I said would it , in order now just to deal with the amendment on my own sir or support Mr at the same time ? |
| 24 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 25 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 26 | And now just to spend the rest of the lecture elaborating on what I just said . |
| 27 | Now just to clarify in my mind about , here I 'm looking at the summary of your submission , you actually refer to the fact that sixty three hectares are required to meet the needs of the city , whereas I take it you say this morning that you 're happy with the forty six , er but in reality you can only get thirty three ac thirty three hectares within the city . |
| 28 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 29 | Now just to give you some numbers erm on er who gains and who loses right erm right for the world as a whole right , erm the study conducted by right nineteen eighty nine I looked at the cost of some benefits from agricultural support alright , in nineteen eighty six to nineteen eighty seven in just one year one crop year alright . |
| 30 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |