Example sentences of "now that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now that we know British food is just about the worst in the world , ’ says Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth UK , ‘ how ironic it is that we and other rich nations are exporting fat and sugar to starving people in Africa and Asia . |
| 2 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 3 | But now that the human misery of the transition is over and forgotten , and now that we see modern Peterborough , we may perhaps be grateful to the Cecils for the feudal obstinacy which kept their town from growing , and preserved it for our pleasure today . |
| 4 | Now that we have lead-free split-shot , which is more expensive than lead shot , more care goes into its manufacture and there should be few problems . |
| 5 | The boot is still the dominant feature of the game , more so now that we have this tactic of kicking deep for position . |
| 6 | How about trying to get Peter Ndlovu ( Coventry ) and play him on the wings , now that we have some money in the bank ? |
| 7 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 8 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
| 9 | She 'd go shopping , now that she had some money , or go to see places that she 'd heard of . |
| 10 | I would like to thank them all for their gifts and their good wishes , ’ said Dorothy , who is looking forward to cultivating a few hobbies now that she has more time . |
| 11 | Now that he has these powers , what will he do with them ? |
| 12 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 13 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 14 | I remember now that I saw neat features , a nose a little hooked , and a very good figure . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ I think people will realise now that I have true ability . |
| 16 | If I do not get the chance later in my response to answer the comments of the hon. Member for Caernarfon ( Mr. Wigley ) on students with special needs in further education , I say now that I attach great importance to those students . |
| 17 | The plethora of adjectives point , again , towards self-dramatisation , and it is clear to me now that I used this device as a means of bearing depression in general . |