Example sentences of "[is] now [adj] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Bronson immersed himself in work on television movies after his actress wife Jill Ireland died of cancer two years ago but he is now set to marry girlfriend Kim Weeks , 31 .
2 It is now possible to buy fax systems that run within the word-processing applications to enable faxes to be sent and received on personal computers or work stations .
3 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It is now possible to infer pH with a standard error of about 0.3 pH units .
8 Having established my personal feelings about the current political situation and the changes resulting from the GERBIL , it is now necessary to pay attention to present practice with regard to special needs in the primary school .
9 It is now easy to make fun of that confidence , both in the adequacy of the method and the permanence of the theoretical models , but it was no less powerful for being , as some of the old philosophers might have pointed out , misplaced .
10 The sport is now obliged to find income from the more normal sources of television and sponsorship , to replace his largely unacknowledged private patronage .
11 Mr Khalil is now free to start divorce proceedings against a woman whom he subsequently married in Scotland .
12 ‘ The fact that the council is now prepared to take part in a trip to Thiepval organised by a sectarian organisation such as the Orange Order will be an added cause of concern to nationalist ratepayers in the city , ’ he said .
13 ‘ I 'm sure the Doctor is now prepared to let Pool occupy his blue box — are n't you , Doctor ? ’
14 The student is now ready to add part of himself to his fighting capabilities .
15 Miss Barbara Streisand , the nasally-unchallenged tragedienne and diva , ‘ is now terrified to make stage appearances ’ ;
16 It is now acceptable to oppose discrimination against women and people with disabilities , but the issue of discrimination against Travellers needs to be put firmly on the agenda .
17 Unfortunately , it seems he is now unable to take part in the visit .
18 Perming highlighted or coloured hair used to be a definite no-no but it 's now possible to have colour and curls .
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