Example sentences of "[coord] now [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But would n't it be a wonderful New Year gesture if the Government declared here and now that the first few million will be set aside to save St Bart 's . |
| 2 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 3 | Would it at least give a categorical assurance and preferably in this House and now that the British Library will be given the opportunity to raise funds to purchase the land itself so that the future development of that library will be possible . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ? |
| 6 | In June Berne will swap its traditional open-outcry system for telephone trading ; but now that the big banks will no longer deal there in stocks quoted elsewhere , its future looks dim . |
| 7 | His father had taught him that these must be suppressed , but now that the old attorney was dead Paul felt free to become himself ; what that might mean was not yet clear to him . |
| 8 | But now that the worst of the weather is behind us and the days are drawing out , you should have a chance to catch up . |