Example sentences of "[pron] [is] now possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are two , rather simple examples of the type of flexibility in approach which is now possible , and which can sometimes remove the intermediate barriers between students and better achievement . |
| 2 | IT 'S now possible to tie the knot in 14 different exotic locations in the new Kuoni Weddings brochure . |
| 3 | Perming highlighted or coloured hair used to be a definite no-no but it 's now possible to have colour and curls . |
| 4 | With Stacker 3.0 it 's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package 's customisable compression features . |
| 5 | It 's now possible to place a governor AND meter in an Atplas meter box — eliminating the safety problem inherent with the old method . |
| 6 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 7 | However , the publishing business has recently become more competitive and it is now possible for songwriters to restrict the length of the assignment of copyright to what is known as a ‘ retention period ’ . |
| 8 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 9 | It is now possible to obtain purpose-made double-glazed units incorporating ‘ low E ’ , or low emissivity , glass which includes a thin and imperceptible metallic coating on the inside surface of the outer leaf of each unit to reflect interior heat back into the room while allowing solar heat to enter the building . |
| 10 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 11 | It is now possible , therefore , for us to come to the all important differences between my character and myself . |
| 12 | It is now possible to summarize the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution . |
| 13 | It is now possible to get on CD-ROM everything from the Yellow Pages to a civil engineering database . |
| 14 | It is now possible , however , to see the few remains of this enigma more clearly , and perhaps to appreciate more easily the impressive scale of the machinery that once was there . |
| 15 | It is now possible for Down 's children to find places in special schools from a relatively early age , in some cases from the age of three onwards . |
| 16 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 17 | It is now possible to make a booking or get a ticket printed in your office or at your hotel ; there are increasingly sophisticated computer systems to help the traveller get the best value and convenience in their travel arrangements . |
| 18 | It is now possible to introduce another nucleus into this egg . |
| 19 | Although the excavations are not yet wholly complete , many hectares of the town have now been revealed to the light of day , and it is now possible to stroll along the abandoned streets once more with the remains of shops , houses and villas on either side . |
| 20 | For example , it is now possible to produce cassava seedlings , the parental line of which is usually affected by a mosaic virus , by culturing unaffected cells that can be propagated in sterile conditions ( Tudge 1988 ) . |
| 21 | Using similar procedures it is now possible to engineer organisms that can produce relatively large quantities of useful substances . |
| 22 | Using genetic engineering it is now possible to remove the gene that produces this protein and to produce large volumes of the new bacterium which , if sprayed on a newly planted crops , will considerably reduce frost damage . |
| 23 | As has been discussed by Jones and Lindsey ( 1988 ) , it is now possible to clone the maize chloroplast genome and to synthesise the protein ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase ( ‘ Rubisco ’ ) which is crucial to carbon dioxide fixation . |
| 24 | It is now possible to clone the gene that controls Bt production and experiments have proved successful in introducing the gene into tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ) plants which subsequently develop resistance to the pest . |
| 25 | Moreover , Schell et al. ( 1989 ) point out that it is now possible to engineer plants , by introducing B. thuringiensis genes encoded for toxin production , that develop resistance to tobacco hornworm ( Manduca sexta ) and the large white butterfly ( Pieris brassicae ) . |
| 26 | For example , it is now possible to engineer tobacco and tomato ( Lycopersicum esculentum or Solanum lycopersicum ) plants that are resistant to the tobacco mosaic virus . |
| 27 | Most important of all , it is now possible to discern in the structure that is emerging from the subject reports and the National Curriculum Council some windows of opportunity for good teachers and thinking schools . |
| 28 | The technique is still being developed ; it is now possible to image surface structures on a television screen , using a beam focused to one micrometre to scan the surface . |
| 29 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 30 | The past decade has seen immense progress in elucidating the scientific basis for a proper discipline of programming : it is now possible to prove that a computer program meets its specification , in much the same way that mathematicians and engineers know how to prove the correctness of a proposed solution to the relevant differential equations . |