Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] possible for " in BNC.

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31 In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious .
32 You love it here , and I could make it possible for you to remain here .
33 He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world .
34 By reducing the scope of the enquiry we make more certain the worth of what we are doing ( always assuming , of course , that the study itself is well conducted ) , and by describing carefully what we do we make it possible for other researchers to duplicate our own study or conduct a similar one with slightly different variables .
35 It is obvious that only personal documentation at the time could make it possible for these three politicians to write anything with accuracy from 20 years after the events had taken place .
36 Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis .
37 They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission .
38 The best type of treatment for both psychosomatic complaints and hypochondria is some form of psychotherapy or hypnotherapy ( see p l53 ) which should make it possible for the sufferer to identify the underlying emotions that are responsible for the symptoms .
39 Such dreams were defeated by the means she 'd first thought would make it possible for her baby to be returned to her .
40 This structure will make it possible for an SNMP agent to grant one SNMP manager read-only access to that agent 's objects , while granting read-write access to another .
41 Sun 's purchase of Praxsys will make it possible for the software to come to market .
42 With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them .
43 Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated .
44 It has always been one of my regrets that life did not make it possible for me to know this quiet , strong artist and teacher better .
45 I mean the Marxism was the motivation just as it was for the Chinese but er I do n't think the Russian revolution remained Marxist revolution for very long But the achievement of revolution did make it possible for the success of revolution to be seen by the Chinese because it had already been achieved .
46 It would help to reduce the caseload and so permit the conditions of the Patient 's Charter to be met and would make it possible for consultants to be more involved in the routine care of patients , both emergency and elective , and so diminish the responsibilities of junior doctors for service commitment .
47 SCOTVEC 's new Quality Framework , announced last year and due to be implemented in August , will make it possible for centres to take devolved responsibility for a range of quality assurance processes .
48 I hope that our reforms will make it possible for prisoners to do some useful form of work in prison .
49 Once Russia is a member of the International Monetary Fund , that will make it possible for Russia to receive sustantial assistance in cash to deal not only perhaps with a stabilisation fund but balance of payments support — which I personally suspect will be needed in the Soviet Union .
50 On the proposal that the training contract should make it possible for employers to recover the cost of their investment in training , the difficulties to which the hon. Gentleman referred can be reflected in the contract .
51 This will make it possible for more informed advice to be given to parents of mentally handicapped children about how they can best assist their children 's language development .
52 The provision of free secondary education did make it possible for many children to get more easily the education they desired .
53 It is expected that the process will make it possible for rare and fragile mummies and other bodies such as the European bog bodies and the recently discovered Ice Man to be accessible to the public without putting the originals at risk .
54 If Town Halls are to be successful as enabling authorities , then they must make it possible for all their communities ( both residential and business , their fellow agencies , and also their own Councillors and Officers ) to engage in the free trade of information .
55 Developments in modern technology may make it possible for three dimensional models of the property to be stored on computer .
56 I can care about my patients , and I sincerely hope that you will make it possible for my patients when their diagnosis is made , to have that knowledge that financially , he has a great tomorrow .
57 Also , in 1974 , an adoption Act made it possible for couples of mixed denominational or religious origin to adopt .
58 Many of the reopenings were under the ‘ Speller ’ rule : Tony Speller 's 1981 Bill made it possible for services to reopen experimentally without the need to go through the formal closure procedures in the event of failure .
59 Both the introduction of new rules on how societies could raise funds for mortgage loans and the 1987 stock market crash — which prompted small investors to get out of equities and put their money into building society saving accounts — made it possible for the societies to get their act together and fight back .
60 The Council of Nicaea was the largest assembly of bishops hitherto , and though the great majority of the members were from the Greek East , the presence of Roman legates and the prominent role played by the sees of Alexandria and Antioch made it possible for the council to be given the title ‘ ecumenical ’ .
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