Example sentences of "now [adj] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Perming highlighted or coloured hair used to be a definite no-no but it 's now possible to have colour and curls . |
| 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 | It is now possible to infer pH with a standard error of about 0.3 pH units . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mubarak confirmed that Assad was now willing to renew contact with Yassir Arafat , chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , but stated that many obstacles still remained to prevent an early reconciliation between Assad and Iraq 's President Saddam Hussein , between whom a bitter personal rift existed due to Syria 's support of Iran in the Gulf War . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure the Doctor is now prepared to let Pool occupy his blue box — are n't you , Doctor ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Most of the CDU were now prepared to accept Ostpolitik given its popularity , even if East Germany in the mid-1980s was as authoritarian as ever . |
| 12 | Round-table discussions held at the Institute of Latin America early in 1981 revealed that several Soviet ideologists were now prepared to lend credence to the long-discredited theories of guerrilla warfare upheld by Che Guevara . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mr Khalil is now free to start divorce proceedings against a woman whom he subsequently married in Scotland . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We are now supposed to understand Enterprise Solutions less as a show than as a high-level executive meeting that might pass for a meeting of the Unix War College . |
| 18 | China was now formulating a tentative 10-year plan , he said , and would present the outline for the eighth five-year plan ( 1991-95 ) to the party 's seventh plenum originally scheduled for September , but now likely to take place in December . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it seems he is now unable to take part in the visit . |
| 20 | So we 're now able to support mainframe class applications with thousands of users in this data centred type database running thousands of applications with a mixture of decision support and online transaction processing . |
| 21 | The few tenants who are searching for short-term leases are now able to negotiate break clauses in leases for new buildings . |
| 22 | Although at one time it was considered relevant only to study child language when words appeared , we are now able to consider language development as a continuous process from birth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Imagine the situation where employers are now obliged to notify employee members of that rise in contribution and also reminding them that they have the right to withdraw their authorization . |
| 25 | The sport is now obliged to find income from the more normal sources of television and sponsorship , to replace his largely unacknowledged private patronage . |
| 26 | Both sides were now eager to come face to face , and as General Cope moved forward from Dunbar towards Edinburgh the Jacobite army moved out to meet him . |
| 27 | Miss Barbara Streisand , the nasally-unchallenged tragedienne and diva , ‘ is now terrified to make stage appearances ’ ; |
| 28 | The student is now ready to add part of himself to his fighting capabilities . |