Example sentences of "it now [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now feels healthy enough to expand . |
| 2 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |
| 3 | The rouble has collapsed as Russia 's prices have soared : it now takes 934 roubles to buy a dollar , up from 128 a year ago . |
| 4 | It now made open confession of its inability to cope alone with the crisis initiated by Perry 's arrival . |
| 5 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 6 | Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George ; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith ; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own — it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour , with the Liberal Party on the sideline . |
| 7 | He aimed to operate an air route towards the end of this year , but he said it now looked likely that the service will begin early next spring . |
| 8 | Under these altered conditions , emulation is increasingly significant as a strategy by means of which people lower in a given social hierarchy attempt to realize their aspirations towards higher status by modifying their behaviour , their dress and the kind of goods they purchase , since it now becomes possible to mistake a poor nobleman for a wealthy trader . |
| 9 | It now becomes necessary to determine why such a form of conditional learning should be evident in this procedure and not in others . |
| 10 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 11 | Finally , one will break through the " wall " of the ovum and enter it ; the wall will then seal behind it and in some way it now becomes impregnable to the assaults of further sperm . |
| 12 | It now becomes clear that if , as Luxemburg suggested , the rate of increase in unproductive consumption remains constant , but the |
| 13 | Timex 's plant in Dundee has stopped making watches ( it now produces printed circuit boards ) , and its workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred . |
| 14 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 15 | It now numbers some 40 people , as well as the Jersey cows , the Aberdeen Angus bull , the horse , three ponies , and a handful of fecund goats and breeding sows . |
| 16 | To the dismay of record-collectors , it now became possible to piece together a collection of imperfect bits to make a complete note-perfect performance . |
| 17 | Indeed , it now became possible for even the temporary and seasonal migrations of Italian or Irish harvesters or railway builders to extend across the oceans . |
| 18 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 19 | In superfluity , it now became apparent , they had found satisfaction . |
| 20 | Whereas country life had before been relatively quiescent , it now became unsettled and the foci of dissatisfaction altered ; protests against taxes were regularly staged from about 1540 , and after 1550 gave way to larger-scale insurrections such as those at Romans in 1580 , in the south west during the 1590s , and , much later , the Camisard rebellion in the Cévennes which began in 1688 . |
| 21 | It now became interesting and profitable to work with others , both in the classroom and in more leisurely periods of revision . |
| 22 | It now does increasing volumes of trade with its ASEAN ( Association of South East Asian Nations ) neighbours ( Indonesia , Malaysia , Thailand and Brunei ) and has diversified into a wider range of industries . |
| 23 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 24 | Its turnover has tripled in the past decade ; analysts reckon it now sells some £450-worth ( $880 ) of goods per square foot each year , against an average of £216 for all department stores . |
| 25 | It now employs 40 people at new offices developed by Liverpool firm Neptune on the Columbus Quay . |
| 26 | Whether the Simpsons can reverse the slide of a company which once employed 2,000 along the banks of the Thames ( it now employs 140 ) is open to question . |
| 27 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 28 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 29 | It now seemed extraordinary that so remote and irrelevant a place should ever loom so large in national and international affairs . |
| 30 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |