Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] now as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's curtain up time again , another opening of another show and the Smell of the Greasepaint and the roar of the crowd is as strong now as it ever was for the performers . |
| 2 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 3 | Yet it was as impossible now as it had always been , and she groaned . |
| 4 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |
| 5 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The need to be vigilant is as great now as it ever was . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Indeed the working relationship between the two is as good now as it has ever been . ’ |
| 8 | Some will want to argue that King is simplifying reality in assuming a single decision-taking point at the end of the project and a neat sequential series of steps , but his message about the limited scope of finance theory is just as important now as it was in 1975 . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that unambiguous communication is just as important now as it was during the cold war , and perhaps even more important ? |
| 10 | It 's a fundamental right and it 's as important now as it was nine years ago . |
| 11 | Between these two well-known and reasonably well-documented cultures lay one that is , in many ways , still as mysterious now as it was over two thousand years ago . |
| 12 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Koltai suggests everything appalling in modern urban life : The Wimpy-precinct existence which one realises with something like delayed shock is just as inescapable now as it was in the Fifties when Billy first sought refuge in his compulsive make believe . |
| 14 | Despite the legislative amendments in 1986 , that observation , he said , was ‘ as pertinent now as it ever was ’ . |
| 15 | The desirability of this is obvious , though it must be said without wishing to offend anyone that it seems as imminent now as it was when the claim was first being made 30 years ago . |
| 16 | This message is as relevant now as it was in 1940 and is more urgent than ever as the myth of material progress loses its power . |
| 17 | That is as true now as it was in 1945 , when Olson wrote it . |
| 18 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 19 | And erm you know it was a a bad time really b you know it was the thirties I mean people say it 's bad now but er I do n't think it 's it 's as bad now as it was then . |
| 20 | It 's not as bad now as it used to be |