Example sentences of "[be] now possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ) . |
| 32 | It is now possible to identify more easily the place of modernizing and modernist discourses within English studies of the second half of the 1930s . |
| 33 | It is now possible to summarize the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution . |
| 34 | Arising from the evidence in the literature and from our empirical studies at Chelsea College it is now possible to offer a model which is compatible with all the evidence and which also has considerable predictive potential . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Having seen the function of the Bank of England in the sterling money markets carrying out its role as lender of last resort , it is now possible to look at the significance of its open market operations in relation to interest rate determination in the money markets and in the wider economy . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It is now possible to remove those fatty deposits that will not respond to either diet or exercise from areas such as under the chin , tummy , buttocks , thighs , calves , ankles and the male breast . |
| 39 | Against the background of the known settlement plans , it is now possible to consider the internal arrangements of the building types and their associated patterns of land-use . |
| 40 | As a result , it is now possible to consider the stylistic affinities of over one hundred mosaics within a basic chronological context . |
| 41 | Using similar procedures it is now possible to engineer organisms that can produce relatively large quantities of useful substances . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | It is now possible to investigate whether it is ‘ just ’ extra DNA sequence , with no apparently defined hypersensitive sites , which leads to position-independent expression of the transgene by designing a minimal ‘ Long ’ construct containing only the defined DH sites ( experiments in progress ) . |
| 45 | It is now possible to tie the threads of this chapter together . |
| 46 | Be aware of the proper treatment as it is now possible to halve the mortality so that it is often inappropriate to leave people at home . |
| 47 | It is now possible to study not only the direction but also the rate of shell evolution at an interspecies level over the entire history of the Earth ! |
| 48 | 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 ) . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It is now possible to have eight or nine merely average international players functioning as a support unit for the one or two stars who will be expected to win the games with a decisive intervention . |
| 51 | It is now possible to trace the influence of a change in a nominal monetary variable , the rate of interest , in this model . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | It is now possible to quantitate radioactivity in HPLC eluates at the lowest amounts practicable with the β- ram Flow-through monitor , available from Lablogic . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | It is now possible to introduce another nucleus into this egg . |
| 56 | The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) . |
| 57 | The existence and nature of these special enforcement procedures is such that it is now possible to speak of European human rights law as being a part of the law of the United Kingdom . |
| 58 | With the reduction in cost of computer memory it is now possible to convert speech into digital information which is then compressed many hundreds of times and stored in a ROM . |
| 59 | It is now possible to add or remove elements , and modify whole sections of the commercial , by means of computer systems such as ‘ Paintbox ’ — a system that contributed greatly to Peter Greenaway 's feature film Prospero 's Books — or ‘ Harry ’ . |
| 60 | It is now possible to infer pH with a standard error of about 0.3 pH units . |