Example sentences of "[was/were] possible [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 2 | It was possible to argue that , because the Polaris missile was supplied by the United States , the British Nuclear Deterrent was no longer independent . |
| 3 | It was possible to argue that Ostpolitik had , in the end , served to undermine the East German regime by reinforcing the liberal-democratic alternative to Communism in the minds of the East German people . |
| 4 | As this inhibition was less than the accompanying inhibition of PGE 2 it was possible to argue that some substrate diversion might have occurred , although weak inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme by indomethacin seems a simpler and more plausible explanation . |
| 5 | In other words , by careful examination of the database it was possible to assess and list the processes that could be supported by a computer system , and identify broadly the associated information . |
| 6 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
| 7 | However , by the simple mathematical device of plotting reciprocals it was possible to extend or extrapolate the size-strength curve fairly reliably so as to ascertain the strength of a fibre of negligible thickness . |
| 8 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 9 | Using this criterion it was possible to show that the damper inertia should be four times the total motor/load inertia ( including the housing inertia ) : and the viscous fluid constant should then be related to the stiffness and damper inertia by : If a well-matched damper is coupled into the system the improvement in the single-step response is achieved with a shorter settling time and lower overshoot , as shown in Fig. 4.13 . |
| 10 | Fortunately , because Darwin had noted where the mocking birds could be found , it was possible to show that each new species was confined to its own island . |
| 11 | There was , therefore , in each case , material from which it was possible to infer that the principal debtor acted as the agent of the creditor in obtaining the security . |
| 12 | Inside and outside converged ; it was possible to forget that the lanterns were not the stars . |
| 13 | If women 's lives were often painfully limited , it was possible to find or make a better self in the mirror . |
| 14 | In the heady 19605 it was possible to suggest that : |
| 15 | Idly Jehan wondered how it was possible to ensure that every woman made available to Artai was incapable of childbirth . |
| 16 | In this way it was possible to ensure that all three transducers were located in the supradiaphragmatic part of the transposed colon . |
| 17 | The agreement , moreover , had shown that it was possible to restrain and even reverse the arms race . |
| 18 | This also favoured multi-employer bargaining arrangements because , since the workforces of geographically-concentrated industries are likely to be subject to less variation in local labour market pressures , it was possible to establish and more easily maintain a meaningful wage structure for district , or higher level , employer groupings ( Beaumont et al . , |
| 19 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 20 | I knew the Swiss Ambassador , who had a country residence where it was possible to ride and relax . |
| 21 | Thus , even though the cloud tops were known not to consist of water it was possible to believe that lower down they were of water and that deeper still lay a warm ocean-covered surface . |
| 22 | It was possible to believe that the sale and all the unpleasantness which had followed it had never taken place . |
| 23 | It was possible to imagine that the sun was an expression of a force that was sick already of a day just barely started . |