Example sentences of "possible [verb] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more is it possible to claim that the strict code of social morality and convention which helped to sustain the political system was held in place from outside against the will of most Japanese people . |
| 2 | There was , therefore , in each case , material from which it was possible to infer that the principal debtor acted as the agent of the creditor in obtaining the security . |
| 3 | We can know how things are in front of our noses , maybe , but it is not possible to know that an altruistic act is morally good , nor that God exists , nor that you will have eggs for breakfast tomorrow . |
| 4 | If this argument is correct , it is possible to conceive that the European Court might , given the right circumstances , hold the English rule that damages are only available in English law to protect private law rights to be in conflict with European law . |
| 5 | Therefore it is possible to speculate that the PABA-UDCA administration test reflects the activity of bacteria in the small intestine when it is given orally in lower doses than the maximal amount absorbed from the terminal ileum . |
| 6 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 7 | In the rarefied atmosphere of brewery marketing departments it was no doubt possible to believe that the nascent trend towards greater health consciousness and personal responsibility would result in huge demand for reduced alcohol products . |
| 8 | Thus , even though Britain 's population density is double that of China , and per capita resource consumption and pollution far greater , it becomes possible to believe that the third world is threatening ‘ our ’ global environment . |
| 9 | It is possible to consider that the evolutionary process is much to blame . |
| 10 | For example , if the expected price level always equals last period 's price level then , by linking the change in the money supply to last period 's price level , it will always be possible to ensure that the actual price level exceeds the expected price level and hence that output is kept above its natural level . |
| 11 | The plaintiff 's claim failed as the defendant had done everything possible to ensure that the statutory duty was complied with . |
| 12 | Will the government do everything possible to ensure that the inland revenue makes this widely known to every tax payer in the country ? |
| 13 | It is possible to argue that the single occurrence of they in the data with a singular verb is accidental ( a ‘ performance error ’ ) but equally possible to claim that the non-occurrence of you , we and these with a singular verb is the consequence of an accidental gap in the corpus ; the line of reasoning characteristic of generative grammar is of little help to us here in choosing between these alternatives . |
| 14 | It is even possible to argue that the scientific revolution saw an unprecedented fusion of science with theology , resulting in more secular forms of piety . |
| 15 | Much of the emphasis on set theory in Lacan and others , as well as the similarity of certain of their ideas to those of Gödel , whose work Cavaillès utilizes , can be attributed to his influence : indeed it would be possible to argue that the whole emphasis in post-war French thinkers on a non-contradictory heterogeneity in which incompatible or incommensurable elements are juxtaposed against or as part of each other is derived as much from set theory as from Freud . |
| 16 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 17 | But they raise again the issue of how one assesses the importance of different forms of organization within an economy and society , and especially in what sense , and when , it is possible to say that a particular form of organization dominates a system . |
| 18 | Using this criterion it was possible to show that the damper inertia should be four times the total motor/load inertia ( including the housing inertia ) : and the viscous fluid constant should then be related to the stiffness and damper inertia by : If a well-matched damper is coupled into the system the improvement in the single-step response is achieved with a shorter settling time and lower overshoot , as shown in Fig. 4.13 . |
| 19 | Inside particle accelerators it is possible to show that the weak force and electromagnetism are two parts of a single ‘ electro-weak ’ force . |
| 20 | What evaluation was possible suggests that the new scheme works well . |