Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] now [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you think it 's a little unrealistic now that the British are n't thinking more in concrete terms of bringing troops back home from Germany ? |
| 2 | Aggie , too , was on her feet and her voice was much lower now as she said , ‘ Aye , it 'll suit me . ’ |
| 3 | With the deradicalising of students in the Reagan years , Sarris 's criticisms seem less relevant , and the film is less dated now than those made at the same time or a little later that did reflect the Counter Culture , such as Alice 's Restaurant , The Strawberry Statement , Getting Straight and Zabriskie Point . |
| 4 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 5 | It was , he decided , Emersonianism — a disease ( if that is what it is ) which is certainly no less rife now than it was when Winters made his diagnosis fifty years ago . |
| 6 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 7 | It was the first event of its kind , and only possible now that traffic was beginning to move again after the restraints of the war . |
| 8 | It 's all looking much healthier now but time is still a major factor . |
| 9 | It was even less palatable now that its strength made the taste discernible . |
| 10 | This latter event is all too obviously possible now that man has produced the means , inherent in nuclear warfare and other means of mass destruction , to destroy all life . |
| 11 | Well it it 's not that much dearer now than the |
| 12 | Her voice was so dry now that sometimes Kit fancied he heard her when he could not , in the scraping of the boughs of trees , the footfalls in the dusty earth . |
| 13 | It is becoming less popular now because of the lack of support it gives to the lower back , although it does give more buoyancy than other types . |
| 14 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 15 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 16 | Auntie Ethel 's old school friend , Elaine , not so popular now that she was Rich and Successful . |
| 17 | They are still the most glamorous club in Britain , but our confidence is so high now that we could take them apart . |
| 18 | The veteran keeper — 43 next month — said goalkeeping was much tougher now than when he started . |
| 19 | On the other hand , something like walking past a building site in the summer in shorts is much easier now that I 've lost weight . |
| 20 | The company claims that porting applications from its HP/UX Unix line is much easier now that MPE/ix is in place — hence the surprising number of software houses that HP persuaded to work on both Unix and MPE/ix versions in its recent drive for high-end commercial software ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 21 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
| 22 | An ’ I 'm aware of them so much now that I 'd do anyfink in my power to do somefink to them to get self-satisfaction . |
| 23 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 24 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
| 25 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
| 26 | Erm the only problem is well , even s even , not so much now because because the er a bit better . |
| 27 | Commenting on the report , David Trippier , a junior environment minister , said that " the evidence is much clearer now that ozone loss is not confined to the Antarctic but is prevalent also in the northern hemisphere " . |
| 28 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 29 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 30 | The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then . |