Example sentences of "possible to identify " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while it is possible to identify liberal catholicism in Ireland from the late nineteenth century to the present , and though there has grown up a climate of liberal dissent and criticism of conservative catholicism , it is still possible to assert the prominence of conservative catholicism , particularly in its alliance with nationalism . |
| 2 | It warns that the spread of vast computer data banks means it will soon be possible to identify individuals walking along a street , whether or not they have committed a crime : ‘ The new PNC2 police national computer will be capable of storing digitised photographs to which detectives will have instant access . ’ |
| 3 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 4 | It is possible to identify a second cluster of reasons for unionism . |
| 5 | By examining the details visible on surviving coins it is possible to identify coins struck from the same die or dies , for they will show no divergence whatsoever in the details of the designs ( fig. 6 ) . |
| 6 | By examining the two dimensions , it becomes possible to identify a range of leadership styles and their practical implications : |
| 7 | When a sea or large lake is polluted , then , it often is not possible to identify precisely the main sources of the pollution , or to predict the effects of any particular preventive measure . |
| 8 | ‘ The research results of the people who defined the structure of DNA — deoxyribonucleic acid — and others working in related fields suggested to me that it might be possible to identify specific genetic details in a newly fertilized human egg cell , since DNA is the substance of which genes are made . |
| 9 | It is , however , possible to identify risk factors for subsequent mentally handicapped children once one has been conceived . |
| 10 | It is still possible to identify the location of the external belt wheel , as well as the courses of the head and tail races , although the Chelt at this point has been diverted to avoid flooding . |
| 11 | It is possible to identify a number of strands which should feature in their development as writers during these years ; these are to do with an increasing ability to : |
| 12 | is possible to identify a syndrome of implicit assumptions in many lesser developed countries ' conservation policies and in more academic and general commentaries on the subject , and to follow them through to particular elements in explicit policy . |
| 13 | It 's not now possible to identify the fissures from which each of these thousands of lava flows were erupted , but it is likely that each was produced by an eruption broadly similar to that of the Laki fissure . |
| 14 | Now , however , it is possible to identify specific gene components that contain the relevant hereditary information . |
| 15 | Expanding on this it is possible to identify five major tasks in the study of error propagation within GIS . |
| 16 | However , it is possible to identify a few fairly distinct elements upon which there was general agreement . |
| 17 | At a deeper level , it is apparent that not all observers share Scarman 's analysis of the problem or its associated policy response , and it is possible to identify stances both to the right and left of this central reformist tradition . |
| 18 | Moreover , as the predators examined here show marked differences in the extent and distribution of digestion of their prey bone , it is possible to identify species-specific patterns of modification that are unaffected by any subsequent form of alteration . |
| 19 | These are based on both the degree of digestion and on the proportions of teeth and bones affected , and using these patterns it is sometimes possible to identify predator species when they are unknown . |
| 20 | Both Rhodes and Duncan and Goodwin , in their different ways , make it possible to identify some dynamic for change . |
| 21 | So , whilst it is possible to identify some broad directions of change it remains difficult to decide the precise implications . |
| 22 | Indeed it would be possible to identify some fells from the attention he gives to the geology and his affection for each fold of rock and each rattling , winding ghyll , without seeing the characteristic outline of the peak . |
| 23 | To human experts it is possible to identify each species at a glance , but to more casual observers a zebra is just a zebra , and this reflects the weakness of this argument . |
| 24 | While it was possible to identify a group of 27 libraries with staff members whose title included ‘ training ’ , ‘ development ’ or ‘ personnel ’ , they did not uniformly devote a major part of their time to training , and there were instances of authorities who named individuals apparently spending more of their time on training than ‘ named ’ training officers . |
| 25 | It is possible to identify a ‘ zero DD-unemployment ’ rate of national income Y O . |
| 26 | In other cases , where it is not possible to identify a returning officer ex officio , a returning officer is specifically identified by order . |
| 27 | It is often possible to identify situations which immediately precede anxiety attacks of this sort , and so the patient is forewarned and can take preventive action . |
| 28 | However , having had the benefit of the pilot study , it was possible to identify specific areas that restrict my practice and so limit my effectiveness : |
| 29 | While it was unrealistic to expect one practitioner , with such limited practice , to make a significant difference to the workload of the department , it was possible to identify patients whose waiting time had been shortened because they were able to see an ENP . |
| 30 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |