Example sentences of "it [verb] become possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 2 | It has become possible to measure plasma levels of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 which are specific platelet proteins ( Niewiarowski , 1977 ; Moore et al , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Now , thanks to the clean-up work finally undertaken by the guardians of the legal system , it has become possible to overcome the arrogance of the dominant infrastructure of bribery without compromising further the activities of the company . |
| 4 | They have meant , for example , that housing policies have endorsed the view that each nuclear family should have its own household , and thus increasingly it has become possible for people to take that option . |
| 5 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 6 | As a result of these changes it has become possible , among other things , to show more of the male and female body . |
| 7 | It has become possible to talk more freely and openly both about sexual experiences and other bodily functions such as menstruation . |
| 8 | Recently it has become possible to obtain binocular mountings which take the form of a harness attached to the observer 's chest . |
| 9 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 10 | Recently it has become possible to record band intensity profiles with a range of excitation energies between 20 eV and 100 eV using synchrotron radiation ; these profiles show that the relationship between ionization energy and band intensity is not a simple one . |
| 11 | Recently it has become possible to convert simultaneously wood chips of a hundred or more hardwood species into paper pulp , which is important , as it is estimated that paper consumption will increase more than that of timber . |
| 12 | It had become possible to demonstrate the causative organism of syphilis , Treponema pallidum , under the microscope ; there was soon to be available a blood test , the Wasserman Reaction ( WR ) , which enabled syphilis to be diagnosed in the absence of any signs of the disease ; and finally , a new syphilitic treatment , Salvarsan , an arsenic compound , had become available . |
| 13 | The advent of relatively cheap microelectronics meant that by the late 1960s it had become possible to control these machines by dedicated mini- or micro-computers directly attached to them , such machines having ‘ computer numerically control ’ or CNC . |
| 14 | By the early 1980s , it had become possible to study modern linguistics , structuralism , semiotics , marxist theory , post structuralism , the sociology of literature , various brands of specifically literary theory , and cultural studies in some or other relation to English at a number of polytechnics and universities . |
| 15 | Moreover , she thought a great deal about what she was going to do long before she began working , and it had become possible for her to execute a painting with great precision . |