Example sentences of "was now [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was now possible to take immediate enforcement action against development prejudicial to a longer-term future ; uncontrolled rebuilding would have been very unsatisfactory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Though it was now possible to cross , the central stones were still wet , and in that poor light would be treacherous . |
| 7 | The Committee 's main witness was Trevelyan who , having reformed the organization of the Civil Service , was now anxious to improve its accommodation . |
| 8 | Finally , the working hierarchy was now available to make real Newman 's dream of a long-running science fiction serial . |
| 9 | It was now easy to wriggle his feet free of the clinging mess . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With the Russian advance everywhere either stemmed or repulsed , the Central Powers ( or rather Germany , who was now obliged to sustain her flagging ally ) implemented earlier plans for massive drives eastward . |
| 12 | After Richard 's critics moved against the king and his friends in 1387–8 , Prophete was assigned to service the proceedings of the council through which Richard II was now obliged to work . |
| 13 | That Harry was now obliged to marry her ? |
| 14 | Yugoslavia was now set to get its first non-communist President when Mesic took over from the Serb Borisav Jovic in May 1991 , in accordance with the rotation sequence . |
| 15 | In order to comply with Community law , it was now necessary to agree the same date of retirement for both sexes . |
| 16 | It was now necessary to give Klepner visibility in front of Cocello and the top brass . |
| 17 | In a statement , the hospital said that if a new drug did not help , a multiple transplant — possibly including her liver , small intestine , stomach , pancreas and kidneys — was now necessary to save her life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Saleh said the financial position was now impossible to sustain and that the factory had ‘ reached the end of the road ’ . |
| 20 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 21 | When asked by an interviewer if he was pleased with the performance of the British plants , the President had replied that although past performance had been bad by traditional British standards , he was now happy to say that in recent months a marked improvement had taken place . |
| 22 | The magistrates were told that from Febrary this year , until early September , he 'd been caught shoplifting , he 'd attacked police , kicked a police car , stolen a handbag from a 70 year old woman who was now afraid to go out , and caused criminal damage . |
| 23 | The reason Carol contacted me was that she was now frightened to go out of her house , even during the daytime . |
| 24 | The smile he gave her was familiar , full of charm , and yet she was now able to see it for what it was ; totally false and lacking in warmth . |
| 25 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 26 | The event was doubly significant : first , as a sort of dubbing to knighthood , the ritual demonstrated publicly that Charles as a grown man was now able to rule and ready to fight . |
| 27 | I was now able to breathe properly and started to feel over my body with both hands . |
| 28 | She rapidly began to feel better and surprisingly she was now able to discontinue the potassium tablets . |
| 29 | De Klerk was now able to claim that there was no longer any justification for violent protest , in view of his invitation " to all leaders who seek peace " , along with the lifting of restrictions on political groups , which he said now placed everybody in a position to pursue politics freely . |
| 30 | A hot bath , followed by a cold shower worked wonders for his circulation , and he was now able to move more freely , though still with a pronounced limp . |