Example sentences of "now that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Germany . ’ |
| 2 | He realises now that a five-shot lead is no guarantee of success . |
| 3 | Now that a new season is upon us , I and a lot of other Carrick supporters were looking forward with very much optimism and excitement to challenging and competing seriously in all competitions . |
| 4 | The City Council , anxious to back tennis now that a new complex is to be built in Wavertree , insist there is an emphasis on the novice players in this year 's Parks event . |
| 5 | Their ‘ temporary stays ’ may be extended even longer , now that a recent trial has sentenced two of their peers in Cuba to prison terms for screening a videotape of everyday life in Havana at a conference in Costa Rica . |
| 6 | A few years ago this game was used in evidence for a players ' international quality , but there is so much serious , competitive rugby now that a post-Christmas frolic is not rated in assessing credentials . |
| 7 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 8 | Normally , a ride in a car , even a police car , would be something of a treat for a child particularly now that a gratifying crowd was beginning to collect to witness his notoriety , drawn by the yards of white tape which sealed off the whole of the south part of the church and by the police cars and the unmistakable black and sinister mortuary van parked between the church wall and the canal . |
| 9 | ‘ Journalists have always been keen on the idea of a ‘ Punk Revival ’ and now that a few bands like the Buzzcocks , Sham 69 and X-Ray Spex are back together they 're having a field day . |
| 10 | It will all come right , now that a different period of history has begun . |
| 11 | These measures will be fully explained to the Annual Conference of Presidents and Secretaries of Local Law Societies in London on Tuesday 19 January when John Appleby , Chairman of the Courts and Legal Services Committee , will present the package and call on the Government to withdraw its proposed eligibility cuts immediately now that an alternative package of savings has been agreed by the profession . |
| 12 | It was about now that an ugly story began to circulate , originating with the manor 's servants . |
| 13 | Now that the first shock was wearing off , he was beginning to feel annoyed , angered by the position he had been put in . |
| 14 | Young and healthy and spirited , now that the first shock had passed and the inhibiting stiffness was on the mend , after eating her lunch Luce would have got up if Michele , alerted by Rosa , had n't appeared and put his foot down . |
| 15 | Now that the first batch of boat people has successfully been dispatched , the government intends to move swiftly to step up the deportations . |
| 16 | In the most positive response to date to South Korean calls for an inter-Korean summit meeting , a North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister , Kang SokChu told reporters in New York on Sept. 17 that President Kim Il Sung hoped to hold such a summit with President Roh Tae Woo , now that the two countries had been admitted to the UN and " recognized as legitimate governments by the international community " . |
| 17 | These motives are obviously relevant to the discourse analysis I have been describing here ; indeed it will be clear by now that the two motives correspond , respectively , to the ‘ dominance ’ and ‘ difference ’ currents . |
| 18 | Such an approach has become possible now that the overall structures of the models fall broadly within the same theoretical framework . |
| 19 | To Dorcas 's amazement , now that the immediate danger was over , she seemed to be quite enjoying it . |
| 20 | Nils , just wafting up the passenger-tube past the customs check , of course just looked high , excited , fulfilled even , like so many of the passengers now that the strange air of Steel City was wafting between the decks . |
| 21 | It is clearly time to leave , now that the second showing has started . |
| 22 | NOW THAT the Second World of formerly communist countries is falling over itself to join the First World , the name ‘ Third World ’ suits the rest of the planet less well than ever . |
| 23 | In parliament the position seemed worse now that the Unionist leaders sat on the government front bench while their followers continued to sit as the opposition . |
| 24 | It 's history now that the great Bob Paisley told him to be more ruthless for goals — and ten years on , he 's enjoying scoring more than ever . |
| 25 | To add to Henry 's troubles he was constantly being pestered by King Philip 's claim that now that the Young King was dead , his widow 's marriage portion — Gisors and the other castles of the Norman Vexin — should be returned to France . |
| 26 | Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments . |
| 27 | Especially now that the new Warsaw Marriot Hotel is open . |
| 28 | Obviously many arts teachers are not entirely happy that the arts are examined at all , but in my interviews the majority of teachers were generally happier now that the new examination had replaced the old system — the most obvious benefit being the removal of the need to discriminate between the two former examinations . |
| 29 | I 've been deadheading the roses ; there is such a wonderful profusion of colours this year now that the new bushes have settled in , especially the big white one which I 'm sure you remember . |
| 30 | Now that the new network connections have been made , it will be possible for Mr Mowatt to prepare a network diagram , showing the position of each piece of equipment on the system . |