Example sentences of "is possible [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 2 | As a result , it is possible to see in such groups the collective responses normally associated with shopfloor workers . |
| 3 | It is possible to see from these studies that differences between deaf people and hearing people are small when the language differences are taken into account . |
| 4 | Although overall this view is still widely held , it is possible to point to several cases of reversal when , for example , agriculturalists reverted to hunting and gathering . |
| 5 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 6 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |
| 7 | Contrary to approaches influenced by Lacan , there seems little reason to suppose that the unconscious is structured largely in relation to language or some other grammatical form , since in the intellectual representation of the external world it is possible to account for symbolic processes through a variety of other cognitive mechanisms ( e.g. Sperber 1975 ; 1979 ) . |
| 8 | It is possible to sympathize with these arguments , but there are more fundamental criticisms of key settlement policies . |
| 9 | The average reading speed at which comprehension is possible varies from 200–400 words per minute — with the majority of people sticking around the 200 word mark . |
| 10 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 11 | Crime does not stop at county borders when it is possible to drive through three counties in an hour . |
| 12 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 13 | Armour-plated like giant turtles , humped and unruly and gashed with ferocious battle scars , yet in other places so biscuit-thin that it is possible to look at distant landscapes or clouds through the pierced form of a perforation in the ridge ( rather like one of Henry Moore 's outdoor sculptures ) . |
| 14 | These two groups of animals are quite unrelated , but both still have living representatives in the oceans , and so it is possible to look at living animals to help with the interpretation of fossil examples . |
| 15 | Not all solicitors work in private practice of course , and it is possible to train in other areas such as local and central government and in commerce and industry . |
| 16 | In addition to the Japanese environment , it is possible to switch to other languages such as Korean and Chinese , with instantaneous conversion of the desktop language , and without rebooting , in much the same way as the Macintosh 's System 7 WorldScript . |
| 17 | According to Perrin ( 1988 ) it is possible to budget by subjective costs ( such as staff , supplies and equipment ) , functions ( such as nursing , catering and estates ) , specialties ( such as neurology , geriatrics and general surgery ) , or by the units that comprise the district . |
| 18 | Raising the suspension will not improve off road driving but will be detrimental to on road driving It is possible to get to most places with a standard vehicle suspension or heavy duty suspension |
| 19 | Technically it is possible to adjust for these discrepancies by applying regression coefficients to the data , but even after this is done , major Japanese lead-time advantages — of 13 to 14 months — remain . |
| 20 | With the naked eye , or with binoculars , it is possible to distinguish between two stars which differ by only a tenth of a magnitude . |
| 21 | However , it is possible to think of other things to add in such as ‘ one shake of the elbow ’ but it is a matter of choice . |
| 22 | Over a two-day residential course , it is possible to start with recent trends in the workplace , go on to analyse a variety of management styles and approaches , consider strategies , and then develop what the course manual describes as ‘ a sense of solidarity and optimism in ‘ Hard Times ’ ' . |
| 23 | Ergonomics is sometimes confused by questions such as , who is the ergonomist servicing — the employer or the worker ? or , to whom is he ultimately responsible — the state , the employer , the producer or the consumer ? fortunately it is possible to dispose of these issues without taking up any particular political position . |
| 24 | Issues inevitably arise too over the representativeness of the relatively small samples which it is possible to involve in such studies . |
| 25 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |
| 26 | Thus it is possible to speak of cheerful colours and melancholy sounds ( Gombrich , 1963 ) or of the mood of an entire painting or piece of music . |
| 27 | Four archways show the scenes in areas 60–63 , and it is possible to walk through these archways to appear within the area in question ( a one-way portal , alas ) . |