Example sentences of "[adv] possible [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking about Hamlets , I need another quotation before I begin my travels , for when it comes to research into English I have found that it is rarely possible to predict the end-point of the journey when one starts out , or whether one 's road leads anywhere at all . |
| 2 | However , it is rarely possible to define the size of the largest or smallest particles precisely in a size distribution . |
| 3 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 4 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 5 | It is only possible to highlight the basic points and common principles in this chapter . |
| 6 | It is only possible to give a general description above on how to go about it , since every helicopter requires its own particular technique to produce the desired result . |
| 7 | Here it is only possible to give a general flavour of this case-history : |
| 8 | The point being emphasised here is that it is only possible to understand the suddenness of the onset of the downward spiral by keeping in view the production of fixed capital . |
| 9 | At this high level , it was only possible to make a broad assessment of these requirements , and further ideas were developed as the study progressed to lower levels of detail . |
| 10 | Within the space of this article it is only possible to review a very limited range of these beautiful Basslets . |
| 11 | A crowd then assembled and threw pepper at the police , causing such a commotion that it was only possible to get the one-legged prisoner to the police station with the assistance of twelve constables . |
| 12 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 13 | In other words , in the literature of a given subject area , it is normally possible to identify a number of facets and , by applying several characteristics of subdivision , to divide isolates into facets . |
| 14 | It is thus possible to describe the types of information which are most clearly central and peripheral with respect to this definition . |
| 15 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 16 | It is thus possible to define the functioning relationships as attributes of the intersecting sub-spaces . |
| 17 | It was thus possible to assemble a bridge pier and lower it complete onto the river bed . |
| 18 | From the number density of craters on these regions it is thus possible to establish the lunar cratering rate over a considerable period of time as shown in Figure 6.9 . |
| 19 | It was thus possible to write a program that allocated scores to all the possible legal moves in a given position . |
| 20 | It was thus possible to balance the attraction of the matter with the repulsion of the cosmological term . |
| 21 | It is already possible to book a holiday direct from your sitting room by picking up the phone , and in some countries , people can already reserve the holiday of their dreams through their home computer . |
| 22 | It is already possible to identify the main characteristics of the School of Aphrodisias , its chronological framework and some aspects of its contribution to ancient sculpture . |
| 23 | It is scarcely possible to make a choice between the two dates . |
| 24 | First of all , it is generally possible to specify a selector and a selectee in a construction in which co-occurrence restrictions are operating . |
| 25 | One of the most elementary and important lessons to be learned from model theory is that , even when we are tightly constrained by external correlations , it is still generally possible to construct a variety of models for a given set of data ( cf. the extremely useful comments on model construction and evaluation in connexion with language in Sternberg , 1963 ) . |
| 26 | And , just as an effective fishing lure may be fabricated from cheap , shiny metal , it is generally possible to summarise a commercial movie 's hook in one sentence . |
| 27 | And , just as an effective fishing lure may be fabricated from cheap , shiny metal , it is generally possible to summarise a commercial movie 's hook in one sentence . |
| 28 | The breadth of such bands means that those of different species often overlap , but it is generally possible to select a wavelength at which one compound may be monitored during the course of a reaction , for instance . |
| 29 | The company , which can send up to 15 tonnes of salmon and 500kgs of scallop meat a week to France , has now halted exports after its French haulier said it was no longer possible to insure the cargo . |
| 30 | However , under the new rules it is no longer possible to use the losses of one spouse to cover the gains of the other . |