Example sentences of "[be] possible [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take whatever steps are possible to cool the body below 102°F ( 38.9°C ) as quickly as possible whilst awaiting expert help . |
| 2 | There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] . |
| 3 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 4 | Elegant and closely-analyzed work has shown that , formed by photolysis of , probably contains a semi-bridging carbonyl group ; in the complicated photolysis of , it has been possible to deduce a great deal about the forms of the intermediate and about the photochemical processes by which it is formed and reacts . |
| 5 | Such shops , offering coordinated fabrics and paper , had never before existed in France ; hitherto it had been possible to hire an interior decorator who would go into a home and suggest exclusive fabrics at exorbitant prices . |
| 6 | If it had only been possible to hold the conference without him ! |
| 7 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 8 | A IT was Powdery Mildew and it might have been possible to save the Begonias . |
| 9 | Given the very recent appointment of a Head of Scientific & Technical Services , it has not been possible to formulate the likely requirements for laboratory computing for 1993/94 , but discussions during 1993 will enable us to plan this work from 1994/95 onwards . |
| 10 | Until recently , it has not been possible to use the Census to follow a particular group of people through their lives ( but see Fox and Goldblatt above ) , but it is perfectly feasible to study the changing population structure of , say , a particular district . |
| 11 | By producing precisely controlled changes in the concentrations of nutrients or salts in the blood it has been possible to explore the role of factors like blood glucose level or cellular dehydration in eating and drinking ( LeMagnen 1985 ; Rolls and Rolls 1982 ) . |
| 12 | It has not been possible to assess the state of their health , but fishermen have advised marine biologists that the area contains very little food . |
| 13 | In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms . |
| 14 | Until quite recently it has not been possible to track the land use implications of such economic and social changes in any detail . |
| 15 | It is the recognition of this principle and its implications which is particularly characteristic of Labov 's approach to data : ‘ for the section of speech being examined all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variables as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences in the relevant environments ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 16 | Recall the requirements of this principle ( cf. 6.1 ) that ‘ all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variable as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences of the variant in the relevant circumstances ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 17 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 18 | It had been possible to board a steamer for Norway at Port Dundas . |
| 19 | Ten years earlier at the time of the Younger Report , it had been possible to compile a rough estimate of the number of computer installations ; all thoughts were then on the powerful centralised main-frame equipment which had dominated the technology till then . |
| 20 | With the support of the local manager of Barclays Bank Plc it has been possible to open a high interest account . |
| 21 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 22 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 23 | At the time when the payments were made , it had not been possible to identify the amounts in dispute . |
| 24 | At the time when the payments were made , it had not been possible to identify the amounts in dispute . |
| 25 | One of the authors , John Perry , director of the Institute of Housing , said yesterday that it had not been possible to calculate a Scottish figure because of differences in the financial systems . |
| 26 | In other words , if the legal discourse had exactly paralleled the everyday discourse it would not have been possible to achieve a solution in one but not in the other . |
| 27 | After a decade of severe staffing pressures it has been possible to achieve the objective of currency only by accepting reductions in the standard of the catalogue information provided to readers ( for example , the Library does not have the resources to supply subject information to reduced records acquired from the British Library ) , and by continuing not to assign much-needed additional staff resources for the essential work of the proper management of aspects of the Online Catalogue ( for example , authority control ) , in order to make consultation of the Catalogue easier for |
| 28 | Moreover , the attention the association has paid to cinema has offered a space in which it has been possible to raise the issue of the production and distribution of narrative and dramatic works in African languages . |
| 29 | By analysing the evidence of many hoards it has been possible to establish the dating of the annual moneyers with a fair degree of accuracy , to within about five to ten years , although the process is by no means complete and new hoards continue to suggest revisions . |
| 30 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |