Example sentences of "by now " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will by now have become evident that this book takes an unorthodox approach to art criticism . |
| 2 | The later encounter is prefaced by advice from Jimmy , whose leadership pretensions are by now in ashes : ‘ Be calm . |
| 3 | By now he has also reached ‘ the realm of real life ’ — by which he ‘ understood a whirling world of parading throngs , physical love and revolutionary slogans ’ . |
| 4 | By now free verse has been exposed as decadent , and modern art as the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses . |
| 5 | By now Kapuscinski is on his ‘ last legs ’ , and he telexes Warsaw to say that he wants to leave and that it is ‘ more or less clear ’ that ‘ the Angolans will win ’ . |
| 6 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 7 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
| 8 | OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned . |
| 9 | But his attitude was by now part of the common sense of clergy and people alike . |
| 10 | Even if Dáil members had thought otherwise , it must by now be clear that the ethos of the Irish Republic was still one in which it was impolitic to be in conflict with the church . |
| 11 | By now I have already committed myself to so much , he wrote . |
| 12 | It should all be quite evident enough by now . ’ |
| 13 | She might have quietened down a bit by now , but you know what she 's like . ’ |
| 14 | By now , I was crying even worse than she was . |
| 15 | Early plums should all have been picked by now , although ‘ Marjorie 's Seedling ’ will be ripe from mid-September . |
| 16 | You should also by now know how you are going to find your part of the cost . |
| 17 | By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors . |
| 18 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 19 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 20 | They will be mobbing Sir John by now . |
| 21 | He should be here by now . ’ |
| 22 | And Alexander McGlashan of Eastertyre — you know them all , and they know you , and by now they will be expecting us . |
| 23 | By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley . |
| 24 | It is all supposition ; the gentry may have swung the government against the Act by now . |
| 25 | Luckily the flies had gone by now . |
| 26 | Perhaps by now they had been totally cowed . ) |
| 27 | ( An interesting confluence also took place between the development of classical music , which by now had moved away from tonality by vastly enlarging its range , and the coloured musicians ' microtonality . ) |
| 28 | By now they too knew they could call on me . |
| 29 | You 've had ample time to get your feet under the table by now and one or two things have come up which I 'd like you to pursue . |
| 30 | If I had any children to send to those good schools in Highgate , even they would n't be asleep by now . ’ |