Example sentences of "possible [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional chemists are very suitable for this type of study ; it is possible to classify the types of work carried out , and other aspects of each job held over the career , in a clear and systematic way . |
| 2 | Because a detailed record of economic activity statuses was collected by the After Redundancy study , it was possible to compare the proportion of time spent by each person since being made redundant in different forms of employment status . |
| 3 | On the other hand , it is often possible to compare the degrees of falsifiability of laws or theories . |
| 4 | The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services . |
| 5 | It may be possible to target the liver by interaction with ( for instance ) transferrin receptors , which are abundant in this organ . |
| 6 | In discussions with the child it is often possible to plan a course of work to meet the individual 's needs so that the learning process is negotiated rather than dictated . |
| 7 | Assuming that the proportion of visits done in the sample between 2300 and 0700 can be applied to the whole of Berkshire , it becomes possible to estimate the number of night visits which would have been claimable by using the definition of a night visit which applied before April 1990 . |
| 8 | A more general treatment in which path lengths and directions may take any values is possible using the method of Markoff . |
| 9 | As the depression began to affect West Coast loadings it soon became clear that it was no longer possible to sustain the level of service provided in the 1974 Glasgow electric timetable . |
| 10 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 11 | This most unpleasant task was completed yesterday , and from our new positions it was possible to see the beginnings of conflict between the Croats and the Titos , which ended in the wounding of some 30 to 40 Croats after which the shooting died down . " |
| 12 | Furthermore , it is often possible to replicate the artefacts in order to test the hypotheses about a particular object , although in some cases several different technological methods might arrive at an identical end-product . |
| 13 | By injecting the drug into the carotid artery on different days it is possible to observe the effect of disruption of left and right hemispheres alternately . |
| 14 | It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate . |
| 15 | If a breach of public law also amounts to a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights it may be possible to obtain an award of compensation under the Convention from the European Court of Human Rights , but not from an English Court . |
| 16 | … Whether , as a matter of expression , you say , as was said in the case of Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , that this is to be explained by postulating a continuing duty , or merely projecting the relationship of duty into the future , or whether you regard it as possible to establish a breach of duty as at birth by reference to an act antecedent to the accrual of the cause of action , may be open to debate , but it has no bearing on the precise question we are called upon to answer , namely , whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the infant plaintiff . |
| 17 | Holmes J. recognised that it might not be possible to establish the forfeiture without quo warranto but considered that even before or until such a proceeding the effect of the clause upon the plaintiffs ' business could be serious , and ( 2 ) the incurring of a penalty which would continue to accrue and accumulate pending litigation should the plaintiffs ultimately fail . |
| 18 | From the ages of the samples it is possible to establish the length of time for which certain regions on the Moon , particularly the maria , have been exposed to bombardment . |
| 19 | It was not quite possible to communicate the horror of examination by McCarthy . |
| 20 | With the use of filtration and aeration it is possible to increase the density of stocking . |
| 21 | If a group of mated animals is required for a particular day it is possible to increase the probability of mating using the Whitten effect ( 5 ) . |
| 22 | By arranging the samples to be tested in a two-dimensional array , either physically or conceptually , pooling the samples in both columns and rows ( figure ) , and doing PCR on the pooled samples and those individual samples found to be positive by ‘ grid referencing ’ , it is possible to increase the efficiency of screening . |
| 23 | It is no longer possible to found a reputation for scholarship on being good at spotting allusions . |
| 24 | Additionally , if it is found that feelings of risk in the simulator are similar to those experienced when actually driving , and there is reasonable consistency between subjects in assessments , it is possible to infer the feelings of risk a subject is likely to experience when confronted with a particular situation without actually asking the subject to give ratings at the time . |
| 25 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 26 | If it were possible to diminish the use of gas , to increase British coal production and to erect trade and tariff barriers to ensure that we can not import foreign coal , what would the consequences be for those who want to use the power that is generated ? |
| 27 | That is why it has been possible to locate the roots of pleasure in the synapses — and why it has been possible to find the roots of withdrawal there , too . |
| 28 | Is it not possible to find an understanding of faith that is compatible with uncertainty rather than certainty of the existence of a Deity ? |
| 29 | By examining these different measures it is possible to discover the effects of government policy on the distribution of income . |
| 30 | Although it is actually possible to regress a patient to babyhood and even to the mother 's womb , I felt that perhaps in Maxine 's case we should try past-life regression ( see Chapter 6 ) . |