Example sentences of "is [adv] possible [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 One of the problems with not getting killed climbing while still young is that you reach such a great age that your standard falls mercilessly , and it is only possible to relive great exploits by reading about yourself in guidebooks .
2 Reviews of exhibiting societies ' shows have constantly presented difficulties to critics , as it is only possible to give brief comments on some of the artists ' work ; how could it be otherwise when an exhibiting society shows several thousand works ?
3 With care it is generally possible to express most ideas clearly and accurately ; however , on occasions it may be necessary to adopt particular language or legal formulae in order to express an idea accurately .
4 To reach structures deep within the brain it is not possible to use external landmarks , like folds in the cortex , directly .
5 As suggested by Szekeres ( 1972 ) , it is therefore possible to use these as coordinates in region IV , although care has to be taken at the boundaries and it is not possible to extend these coordinates into the prior regions II and III .
6 The relation of the one continuum to the other is not possible using Newtonian mechanics .
7 The rates of both fatal and other accidents have fluctuated over the years and it is not possible to reach any conclusions concerning long-term trends in socio-economic differences .
8 It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top .
9 However , the Gould-Jacobs reaction is unsuitable for producing 1-cyclopropyl-quinolonecarboxylic acids or 1-cyclopropyl-azaquinolonecarboxylic acids of the ciprofloxacin type because it is not possible to alkylate 1-unsubstituted quinolones or azaquinolonecarboxylates with cyclopropyl halides .
10 Since no objective accident data were available for the areas shown in the films used in this study , it is not possible to define certain films as exemplars of risky junctions a priori .
11 The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map .
12 In the United Kingdom it is not possible to get comparative estimates for individuals , but in England and Wales in 1984 , 23% of non-psychiatric beds were occupied by people who died before discharge ( G Bevan , unpublished observations ) .
13 According to Jesus , it is not possible to consider real foundations in marriage and in life without also considering the spiritual dimension to our lives .
14 Note , it is not possible to read some modules and enter others at the same time .
15 With cross-sectional data it is not possible to make precise comparisons between changes in employment and economic activity over time .
16 Since it is not possible to handle statistical issues in any detail in a general account of sociolinguistic methodology , I shall concentrate in this section on picking out general principles of particular relevance to sociolinguists , referring as appropriate to more specialist treatments .
17 Although it is not necessary to mark each package in the list , all endorsement marks given must be the same as it is not possible to accept some packages and reject others at the same time .
18 Everyone appreciates that employers are working in a volatile and sometimes precarious economic environment , and so clearly there will be times when it is not possible to meet pre-set targets on an individual company basis .
19 However , since the calculation of P(A) requires the aggregation of data across subjects and each subject only rates 30 of the 60 stimuli it is not possible to calculate average correlations in this case .
20 It is not possible to circumvent these provisions by one company receiving a payment from the trustees and another company associated with the same within TA 1988 , s416 making a loan or other capital payment to the settlor ( s678(4) ) .
21 Only designs suitable for tuck can be used , since it is not possible to tuck two needles together even when tucking alternate rows .
22 The manufacturers of these products recognise this suggesting it is nevertheless possible to reduce such odours to an acceptable level without neutralising them completely .
23 This said , it is still possible to assess proposed solutions on a common-sense basis .
24 We can not claim that IF/ALT is a normal form since even though it has a far more restrictive syntax than general occam , it is still possible to have equivalent programs with essentially different syntax .
25 For r { 24.74 it is still possible to find some trajectories which spiral into C+ , but , at r = rH 24.74 , C+ lose stability and in r } 24.74 all numerically computed trajectories wander forever near the strange attractor .
26 With that said , however , it is still possible to produce impressive results provided that opportunities to plant tall trees in the middle of the road are taken .
27 It is similarly possible to make complex classifications of the types of reefs ( summaries may be found in Daly , 1934 ; Guilcher , 1958 ; Stoddart , 1969 , and the references quoted therein ) .
28 It is also possible to record vibrational spectra of solid samples under high and varying pressure .
29 It is also possible to assign different patches to sets of strings , allowing you to mix and match a piano on strings 1 to 4 and double bass on 5 and 6 , for instance .
30 It is also possible to take Celtic courses for one , two or three years as part of the MA(General) or as a secondary or outside subject for another honours group .
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