Example sentences of "[conj] now the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Several times she has wandered out into the street while Mrs Smith was asleep , although now the front door is kept double-locked at night to prevent this from happening . |
| 2 | The passing of time had eroded the picture from his mind as much as he could possibly allow it , so that now the two images were one and the same . |
| 3 | The difference between the West now and the West in the nineteenth century , is that now the largest part of the price for development is paid by the invisible people of the so-called Third World , rather than by the pauperised urban proletariat of mills , mines and factories , though there are still some of them about too . |
| 4 | But the new approach , with Ciaran Fitzgerald keeping in close touch with his London Irish contacts , with the brothers John and Barry O'Driscoll in Manchester and with Feidhlim McLoughlin in Newcastle , means that now the Irish net is being widely cast . |
| 5 | Moreover , physical contact , if it proceeds at all , will almost inevitably reach the point of physical stimulation of their sexual parts , so that now the reflex component also comes into play . |
| 6 | This was the same evening on which Johnson wryly said that now the Hanoverian King had given him a pension , he could hardly drink Stuart health with the wine thus bought . |
| 7 | Chairman of ITV Sport Greg Dyke said that now the new league may not become the major force it could have been . |
| 8 | Effectively , it boiled down to a continuation in a certain sense of the original situation , except that now the primal father exercised his authority not in the social group , but within the ego — he became a psychological agency instead of being a physical reality . |
| 9 | Parliament , recognising the danger — perhaps more to respect for the law than to press freedom — changed the law , so that now the very fact of a conviction is deemed to be conclusive evidence of its correctness . |
| 10 | And now the Premier League beckons . |
| 11 | This includes the Madeira Carlton Hotel ( formerly the Sheraton and now the largest hotel in Portugal ) , the Casino Park Hotel , more hotels , offices and apartments under construction , as well as the Madeira Beach Club timeshare complex . |
| 12 | Thus , ads targeted at 40-year-old housewives started to use hit tunes first from the fifties and now the late sixties . |
| 13 | And now the great blade spun to a whine , while the black curtain fell away from the window , directing a blinding beam on to the bright , hungry teeth . |
| 14 | He had been apprehensive but had gone along with her idea all the same and now the small room was a regular haunt of the local foremen and managers , as well as a meeting-place for the trade union officials who held impromptu meetings over mugs of steaming hot tea and bacon sandwiches . |
| 15 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 16 | Gradually , however , they had all been infected by Yussuf 's low spirits and now the orderly room was an oasis of gloom . |
| 17 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 18 | ‘ I should think you might be ready at six-thirty , ’ and now the quizzical eye was cocked at Sally-Anne . |
| 19 | ‘ And now the six months is nearly up . |
| 20 | And now the other main play-themes are added , each connected with a different kind of prey-hunting . |
| 21 | Having read with interest the saga of the Ashley Court Hotel , and now the first instalment on the Valley Hotel ( Caterer , 11–17 July ) , it strikes me that the Povahs and the Cassons should combine their marketing , accounting and food systems skills . |
| 22 | And now the first STV general election is being held , the voters in the polling booths are busily writing 1,2,3,4,5 … instead of marking the customary X , and the sun is shining . |
| 23 | And now the first of the small crowd had reached the car . |
| 24 | Pallister survived a traumatic start at Old Trafford to win FA Cup and European Cupwinners Cup medals , and now the First Division championship is within United 's grasp . |
| 25 | He had offered her coffee and now the two of them sat sipping it . |
| 26 | And now the former Champion Hurdler , trained by Toby Balding ( above ) , is almost certain to make a quick reappearance in the Racecall Hurdle at Ascot on Friday , provided he comes through a gallop tomorrow morning . |
| 27 | And now the second verse is who , she 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x- ray vision , she can |
| 28 | The right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) and now the right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) have all been unsuccessful and got it wrong . |
| 29 | So I think I 'm asking for just a bit more , more talks and where there is a , a home or homes in a rural area that may be the only home in that area , so it is available to local people that Social Services come in and there in an understanding in planning authorities first and now the actual criteria we 're working on because most local people will think that home is for local people . |
| 30 | Ayesha reintroduces the central figure reborn from the apparent death at the end of She and now the sole survivor of the cult of Isis , living in a volcanic mountain fortress , this time in Tibet , and with some difficulty holding her power against a wild tribe in the valley , partly consisting of survivors from Alexander 's army , under the control of Queen Atene , who proves to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess , Amenartas , beloved of Kallikrates . |