Example sentences of "[adv] possible [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rarely possible to explain this as a matter of mere incompetent glossing . |
| 2 | It 's rarely possible to do this without damaging the glass , so have a new piece ready . |
| 3 | But it was obviously possible to book another P A. I mean that 's |
| 4 | With care it is generally possible to express most ideas clearly and accurately ; however , on occasions it may be necessary to adopt particular language or legal formulae in order to express an idea accurately . |
| 5 | He himself admits that both the continental staff and the locally recruited waitresses are skilful , but privately he regrets that it is no longer possible to find enough male British waiters , as he feels this would ‘ look better ’ . |
| 6 | The argument is that just as direct democracy is ruled out by the size of the modern state , so too once companies grow beyond a certain size it is no longer possible to involve all their members directly in the decisions concerning the running of the company . |
| 7 | Today , it is no longer possible to imagine such a thing happening . |
| 8 | The manufacturers of these products recognise this suggesting it is nevertheless possible to reduce such odours to an acceptable level without neutralising them completely . |
| 9 | It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance . |
| 10 | But it is hardly possible to reconcile this with the claim of the constitution in Article 2 that the new state was the legitimate means of government for the entire island , which included over one million dissenting protestants , forming some 20 per cent of the total population . |
| 11 | The riposte must be that what it is coming to is that it is now technically possible to perform that operation , and naturally a huge demand for it has developed . |
| 12 | Double staining with CD25 and CD3 showed that many of the T lymphocytes were activated , though it was not technically possible to count these . |
| 13 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 14 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 15 | Remember , it is always possible to put more groundbait into the water , but impossible to take it back out ! |
| 16 | Erm now we did n't er it 's not always possible to do that . |
| 17 | It is always possible to do that , and to use elsewhere the money saved . |
| 18 | But it was not always possible to do this : the mere facts of topography were against it : and a great number of farms had to be created well away from the village . |
| 19 | Although it is not always possible to record all this information in the modelling process , it is necessary to be at least aware of these factors . |
| 20 | It is not always possible to distinguish these two planning processes in experiments , particularly in considering pauses . |
| 21 | It is , of course , desirable they should never be overworked or overstressed , and you can ensure that this does not happen by having a sufficient number so that it is always possible to rest some while using others . |
| 22 | More significantly , it is not always possible to transfer these increased costs onto the consumers , the newspaper-buying public : newspapers are competitive products and one newspaper 's increase in costs can often lead to another newspaper putting on circulation as readers switch titles . |
| 23 | For processors which have more complex architectures it is not always possible to have all features present on the screen simultaneously — unless you have dynamic windowing . |
| 24 | We now introduce a key property of Riemann spaces , namely that it is always possible to match any arbitrary region of such a space by a flat space provided that the region is taken small enough . |
| 25 | But if by any chance it were ever possible to locate this ‘ vernacular ’ in the usage of an informant , we would have no criteria for demonstrating that we had located it , any more than we could locate ‘ the dialect ’ in the speech of a single informant . |
| 26 | However , it is certainly still possible to see many sets of standard terms which contain clauses which could well be either banned or subject to the reasonableness test under the Act . |
| 27 | At this stage , it is still possible to change either part independently without reprocessing . |
| 28 | For r { 24.74 it is still possible to find some trajectories which spiral into C+ , but , at r = rH 24.74 , C+ lose stability and in r } 24.74 all numerically computed trajectories wander forever near the strange attractor . |
| 29 | It is also possible to dilute some Araldite resins with toluene for pre-casting soak . |
| 30 | As well as charting chronological developments in alloying , it is also possible to examine those changes dictated by the specialised use of artefacts . |