Example sentences of "it [was/were] now [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 2 | At the same time , while it was now impossible to recover any significant sense of the centrality of English within the process of political democracy , the Cambridge Crisis allowed the wider debates about the " democratic " process to come into play within English studies . |
| 3 | It was now possible to map what we now know as the motor cortex ( i.e. the part of the brain controlling muscle function ) in terms of the musculature each section controlled . |
| 4 | It was now possible to take immediate enforcement action against development prejudicial to a longer-term future ; uncontrolled rebuilding would have been very unsatisfactory . |
| 5 | With 125mph trains it was now possible to travel from places like Swindon , where house prices were lower , to London in less than an hour . |
| 6 | Though it was now possible to cross , the central stones were still wet , and in that poor light would be treacherous . |
| 7 | It was now possible to ride right along the coast by tram from South Shore to Fleetwood , albeit with a change of car at the Gynn , where the two systems met at right-angles . |
| 8 | Supermarket and shop owners , having anticipated the price freeze by raising prices in advance , refused to restock with meat , milk , rice and cooking oil , claiming that it was now uneconomic to sell such products ; general shortages of basic food commodities and the growth of a black market for food were reported to be much more prevalent than during the previous four price freezes since 1986 . |
| 9 | It was now easy to wriggle his feet free of the clinging mess . |
| 10 | In order to comply with Community law , it was now necessary to agree the same date of retirement for both sexes . |
| 11 | It was now necessary to give Klepner visibility in front of Cocello and the top brass . |
| 12 | Having enjoyed a remarkable degree of freedom for several years it was now hard to relinquish areas of control . |
| 13 | The Grant Hall Hotel was next door to Zion United Church where I still spent many weekday evenings in boys ' work , and it was now handy to finish at the church and then cross over to the radio station for the late night shift . |
| 14 | It did so as a gesture towards the United States , that it was now willing to accept this resolution as the basis of its participation in an international peace conference . |
| 15 | It was the dramatic and unexpected fall of France in the early summer of 1940 which persuaded the British leadership as a whole that , whatever the cost , it was now imperative to secure American assistance . |