Example sentences of "[was/were] now possible " in BNC.

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1 After all , if peace with Russia were now possible , why need Germany be rearmed ?
2 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 .
3 Nevertheless , it was now possible for men to decide their political allegiance for religious reasons ; England could be identified with the Protestant cause .
4 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 .
5 Stan Windass , another founder , said it was now possible to ‘ create a new language of defence ’ .
6 The Raworth regenerative system could only be properly tested if the whole service was worked by regenerative cars and this was now possible .
7 Only a military resolution of the situation was now possible , and it was difficult to see how this could come about quickly .
8 Though it was now possible to cross , the central stones were still wet , and in that poor light would be treacherous .
9 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 .
10 It was now possible to take immediate enforcement action against development prejudicial to a longer-term future ; uncontrolled rebuilding would have been very unsatisfactory .
11 Love was now possible in her grey life .
12 GL pointed out that insurance was now possible .
13 The Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , who had previously held that the time was not yet ripe for ERM entry , said at a press conference later on Oct. 5 that it was now possible because of " incontestable signs that the economy is working in the way we intended it to " .
14 It was now possible — and also politically essential — to give serious thought to the defence of continental Europe , and to ways in which a Soviet offensive might be halted no further west than the Rhine .
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