Example sentences of "now [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agree with Barry that , not only for the good of Barnet FC but for football in general , action needs to be taken now or the players and the supporters will be the losers . |
| 2 | SIPPL SPELLS IT OUT TO UNIX CROWD — UNITE NOW OR THE END IS NIGH |
| 3 | Two weeks in a semi-finished house , with a man who does n't give a damn about appearances have worked their magic , and I do n't know if I 'm Cinderella now or the pumpkin , but I 'm certainly not the obnoxious girl who arrived here a fortnight ago . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you all know our comparable fixtures , so you can draw your own conclusions about the liklihood of us closing the gap between now & the FA cup 3rd round ! ! |
| 5 | This is now where the Saunders family spend most of their time , for the elegant period living rooms they created in pre-quads days are hardly the ideal environment for the boisterous rough and tumble of four 4-year-olds . |
| 6 | Now where the marshes of Kelfazin may be I do not know , but at the time when El-ahrairah and his followers were living there , of all the dreary places in the world they were the dreariest . |
| 7 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 8 | She knew now where the hot resentment came from . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe we are at the stage now where the fears and uncertainty in the community are such that no one can any longer pass by on the other side , and there is something which everybody can do to alleviate the problem . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , I only go out drinking now once a week so I think I make the most of it , ca n't remember anything I did Friday night again . |
| 11 | erm and that presumably in , in part is because there is this radical groundswell from the peasants in , in part because it would need a new policy after nineteen forty five would n't you because not just on , on the financial side but er er a lot of your mobilization has come through , a as you say , nationalism now once the Japanese are defeated , that 's finished . |
| 12 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
| 13 | Now once the beading 's free you can pull this sash out , this window frame will come forward . |
| 14 | As he explored Merton , Wimbledon , or south and east of South Croydon with Arthur Hardy , ‘ We had no single definite object now that no eggs were to be found . |
| 15 | The television news-reader 's voice still rang across the room , sounding forlorn now that no one was listening . |
| 16 | Then he called for Alvar Fañez and said unto him , Cousin , the poor have no part in the wrong which the King hath done us ; see now that no wrong be done unto them along our road : and he called for his horse . |
| 17 | ‘ I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Germany . ’ |
| 18 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 19 | Suppose now that a tenant in fee simple granted the land to another to hold for life or in tall . |
| 20 | Yet , now that a man has actually come , I realise that my hopes were too simple . |
| 21 | I see now that a child knows these things intuitively , including those things which are at first beyond its own experience . |
| 22 | It is now that a man may pick the flowers and fruit of his lifetime , and complete his gardens of philosophy . |
| 23 | We added darts to our sports achievements , and of course , now that a ground level roof had been put on the Church , there were choir practice and Church meetings to attend . |
| 24 | It must have become clear to us by now that a committee of different subject specialists trading off time and contents with each other is an unwieldy and potentially dangerous body . |
| 25 | He realises now that a five-shot lead is no guarantee of success . |
| 26 | A few years ago this game was used in evidence for a players ' international quality , but there is so much serious , competitive rugby now that a post-Christmas frolic is not rated in assessing credentials . |
| 27 | Normally , a ride in a car , even a police car , would be something of a treat for a child particularly now that a gratifying crowd was beginning to collect to witness his notoriety , drawn by the yards of white tape which sealed off the whole of the south part of the church and by the police cars and the unmistakable black and sinister mortuary van parked between the church wall and the canal . |
| 28 | Their ‘ temporary stays ’ may be extended even longer , now that a recent trial has sentenced two of their peers in Cuba to prison terms for screening a videotape of everyday life in Havana at a conference in Costa Rica . |
| 29 | It will all come right , now that a different period of history has begun . |
| 30 | The relative phenotypic homogeneity of this disease may , however , be the result of selection bias , and now that a DNA marker is available more variability may become apparent , as is seen in the other inherited prion diseases . |