Example sentences of "[be] possible if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 2 | The opinion in the Reparations Case would not have been possible if the classic rule relating to treaties and third parties had prevailed ; instead the Court considered the nature of the United Nations , the terms of its constitutive treaty , its composition , its functions , its rights and duties . |
| 3 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 4 | A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible . |
| 5 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 6 | Early identification of accelerated rise will be possible if the year-to-year variability can be understood and removed from the records . |
| 7 | Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule . |
| 8 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 9 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |
| 10 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 11 | The mathematicians tell us that this would only be possible if the operators x and p were to commute . |
| 12 | Even when the skull is in more than fifty pieces , good reconstruction should be possible if the broken edges are clean and not eroded . |
| 13 | This may not be possible if the vendors do not have available funds until after receiving the sale proceeds , in which case a risk premium needs to be built into the fee structure because of contingent nature of the job . |
| 14 | An EPLF representative in Washington , Tesfai Ghermazien , had meanwhile said that a " major breakthrough " might be possible if the Ethiopian government were to offer a referendum on independence for Eritrea . |
| 15 | Realistically , this would be possible if the wife were on a different narrative " level " to the Miller 's Tale , i.e. a character within the framing narrative rather than within one of the tales . |
| 16 | This would be possible if the lease provided for the appointment of " an independent person " . |
| 17 | A second means of access would be possible if the cottage were gutted . |
| 18 | Rescue of the animal is possible if the stem cells are replaced . |
| 19 | The second common mistake ( not made in this case ) is to impose a sentence for an either way offence for which the offender has been committed under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.S6 a sentence in excess of six months ' imprisonment , which is possible if the offender is committed for the same offence under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 . |
| 20 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 21 | That was possible if the telephones were down . |