Example sentences of "possible [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the excavations are not yet wholly complete , many hectares of the town have now been revealed to the light of day , and it is now possible to stroll along the abandoned streets once more with the remains of shops , houses and villas on either side . |
| 2 | However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge . |
| 3 | I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment . |
| 4 | Then , once the owner realizes that the building is of value , it may be possible to agree on a constructive course of action . |
| 5 | The first is whether it is possible to agree upon a generic curriculum , based on a set of headings or topics , which may be treated quite differently by those in different disciplines ( e.g. typographers , computer scientists ) . |
| 6 | It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit . |
| 7 | But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions . |
| 8 | By catching the Chamden-London Inter-City train it is possible to go from the Second Division to the Third and back again on this unequalled trip . |
| 9 | Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level . |
| 10 | Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court or transferred in contravention of the APO they are not rendered invalid and it is not possible to appeal against a final order on this basis alone ( APO , art 21 ) . |
| 11 | It is also possible to appeal against an interim order under s94(1) ( see Chapter 7 ) or apply for discharge under s39 as discussed at 8 below . |
| 12 | Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix . |
| 13 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 14 | It is possible to see in the parallel gulf between detailed legal control over lending to the needy , and very little control over other credit , the survival of the very long-standing and deep-rooted mistrust of usury ( alongside social concern about the way that high rates of interest could turn poverty into destitution ) . |
| 15 | There are solutions of Einstein 's general theory of relativity in which it is possible to fall into a black hole and come out of a white hole . |
| 16 | He no longer believed that it was possible to struggle against the cruel forces of capitalist wealth . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented . |
| 18 | It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment . |
| 19 | Even today it is possible to come across a secondary school without any library , in the sense of a collection housed in a room set aside entirely for that purpose ; some of these libraryless schools are in the private sector , and eager parents pay heavily for the " privilege " . |
| 20 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 21 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 22 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |
| 23 | And the system of Standing Cabinet Committees , which was developed in the War Cabinet days , now makes it possible to work with a smaller Cabinet , on the lines of your War Cabinet and ‘ Caretaker ’ Cabinet , 49 without impairing the principle of collective responsibility . |
| 24 | In addition to this , he thought it might be possible to work with a sympathetic artist in a good studio , and perhaps take lessons at an academy . |
| 25 | It is also vital to keep all abrasives dust-free , and if possible to work in a dust-free environment . |
| 26 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 27 | It is only after the Glorious Revolution — with the emergence of regular sessions of Parliament , when much of the ordinary business of government ( as opposed to just crisis situations ) came to be conducted along party lines , when Parliamentary divisions over a range of issues allow us to see the consistency of party allegiance amongst MPs , and when the parties came to develop fairly sophisticated organisational structures for the pursuit of their political goals — that it is possible to talk of a two-party system . |
| 28 | There is a substantial dormant language potential in the UK which , if it achieved nothing else , this project has shown that it is possible to activate to a useful level . |
| 29 | Under Mobility 's hire scheme , it is possible to choose from a wide range of vehicles from most major manufacturers . |
| 30 | I had already discussed with Roger Penrose the idea of defining a black hole as the set of events from which it was not possible to escape to a large distance , which is now the generally accepted definition . |