Example sentences of "now possible [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Such change will not come about by chance but it is now possible to describe the ways in which it can be brought about .
2 In paragraph 12 of his affidavit , the coroner doubts whether it is now possible to hold a fair and useful inquest .
3 It is not now possible to refer the rent to the Rent Officer to fix a Fair Rent .
4 It is now possible to see the desperate farce of late fifties pop as a first tremulous step towards the liberalization to come : the publication of the Wolfenden Report in September 1957 recommended the limited legalization of homosexuality , while a newer generation of pop stars , like Adam Faith or the female icon , Helen Shapiro , pushed in from the margins towards society 's centre .
5 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 .
6 It is now possible to access the database from all three of the participating institutions and call up information as well as visual images on screen simultaneously .
7 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 .
8 With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It is now possible to trace the influence of a change in a nominal monetary variable , the rate of interest , in this model .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 As a result , it is now possible to consider the stylistic affinities of over one hundred mosaics within a basic chronological context .
16 It is now possible to summarize the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution .
17 IT 'S now possible to tie the knot in 14 different exotic locations in the new Kuoni Weddings brochure .
18 It is now possible to tie the threads of this chapter together .
19 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 ) .
20 It 's not now possible to identify the fissures from which each of these thousands of lava flows were erupted , but it is likely that each was produced by an eruption broadly similar to that of the Laki fissure .
21 Not only is it possible to get an accurate computer analysis of the fundamental frequency of speech ( which can be displayed on a screen for someone doing practice on intonation , or can be used in the study of the intonation of large samples of natural speech ) , but it is now possible to get a computer to produce a simple phonetic transcription of what is said to it .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 But it is now possible to find a kennel or cattery , using the Recommended Kennel and Cattery Guide , which lists the country 's top boarding establishments , supported by comments from satisfied customers .
25 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 .
26 It 's now possible to place a governor AND meter in an Atplas meter box — eliminating the safety problem inherent with the old method .
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