Example sentences of "that it is possible [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 2 | However , this debate is over-simple since it is predicated on an assumption that censorship would work , that it is possible to stop pornography by state action . |
| 3 | We saw in Chapter 1 that it is possible to link videocassette and videodisc machines to computers . |
| 4 | His use of frequency of occurrence and distribution data to identify scientific and technical terms suggests that it is possible to characterise text types according to the collocational behaviour of these terms . |
| 5 | Assuming that it is possible to collect information about estimated and subjective risk from subjects , it will clearly be of interest to see to what extent other variables are related to these measures . |
| 6 | These parties claim that they are different from traditional Marxist — Leninist parties in three major respects : they are critical of certain aspects of the Soviet Union ; they are independent of Moscow so that if they were to win an election and form a government they would not be Soviet puppets ; and they claim that it is possible to implement communism and maintain traditional democratic institutions . |
| 7 | They suggest that it is possible to use satellite remotely sensed data to help inform population mapping by allowing cross-area estimation and some element of areal disaggregation . |
| 8 | If you provoke anger in others in this way , part of the explanation is that it is possible to use provocation as a means of releasing your own tension by way of another person . |
| 9 | But the problem with the idea that it is possible to dismiss structuralism and poststructuralism with the charge that they neglect history is that this argument itself neglects history . |
| 10 | But he or she will then have to demonstrate that it is possible to make sense when using such terms . |
| 11 | He effortlessly produced a bavarois whips and showing that it is possible to make meringue from egg white when some yolk is present . |
| 12 | There are many arguments as to which strategy is best ( de Nevers et al. , 1977 ; Wall , 1976b ) but increasingly the conclusion being reached is that it is possible to make use of the advantages of two or more strategies . |
| 13 | At one level an attractive feature of goods subject to excise taxes is that they are relatively price-inelastic in demand , so that it is possible to raise taxation appreciably and increase revenue , because with only a modest effect on the level of consumption there is a small excess burden . |