Example sentences of "it possible [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theologians have generally found it possible to hold together belief in the fulness of God in Christ and belief in the unchangeable perfection of the divine nature . |
| 2 | This makes it possible to set up a two-way conversation using only one pair of wires . |
| 3 | Tutors are appointed as and when required and this makes it possible to set up new classes without too much preamble . |
| 4 | When establishing a subsidiary , local legal and taxation regulations must make it possible to set up a profitable subsidiary and allow the parent company to extract profits from the country . |
| 5 | Above all , however , it makes it possible to yoke together a generic model of racism as a global ideological form with a highly differentiated notion of its relational properties , in a way which makes its enactment or sufferance the monopoly of specific individuals or groups . |
| 6 | Other questions can also be introduced : how is it possible to go on forming such sentences for ever ? |
| 7 | And now with the extra money , making it possible to take out smaller mortgages on apartments for letting on the East Side , they were already doing well … . |
| 8 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 9 | What makes it possible to ask meaningfully in respect of a given existent not only in what way it qualitatively differs from any other type of existent , but what makes it numerically , existentially unique ? |
| 10 | The Federal Assembly on May 9 passed a legal amendment making it possible to speed up the purging of the security services , including the StB . |
| 11 | The Environment will also make it possible to call up other programs faster , whatever language they are written in . |
| 12 | After his reforms a French 12-pounder gun could be drawn by only six horses and an 8-pounder by only four ( in each case about one-third of the number needed two centuries earlier ) while the interchangeable parts which he introduced made it possible to carry out repairs and replacements with hitherto unheard-of speed . |
| 13 | Until recently , the acoustic analysis of speech has been such a slow and laborious business that only small samples of speech could be analysed , but recent developments in the use of computers are making it possible to carry out analysis on a much larger scale . |
| 14 | The microprocessor makes it possible to pick out ore-bearing rocks fast enough for 64 separate air jets to deflect them . |
| 15 | Only by studying how each species coped with different levels of moisture , heat , light , etc. , was it possible to explain why the species flourished in one area but not in another . |
| 16 | It seems clear that studying intonation in relation to discourse makes it possible to explain much more comprehensively the uses that speakers make of intonation . |
| 17 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 18 | He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt . |
| 19 | A detailed comparison should make it possible to filter out the effects of intervening variables ' from more ‘ fundamental ’ determinants of variations in the ‘ dependent variables ’ . |
| 20 | Is it possible to move out of grief or bereavement ? |
| 21 | As with every other technological innovation , they may attempt to protect their ‘ inventions ’ which means after altering the genes , they could slap a patent on it , making it possible to own not just an idea and a technique , but the matrix of a living animal . |
| 22 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 23 | As he admits , the divisions are arbitrary , but they have the advantage of making it possible to refer easily to the level of grammatical complexity in a speech sample , and to group children on the basis of language complexity . |
| 24 | In 1987 lower interest rates in West Germany would have made it possible to prop up the dollar ( as the G7 countries had earlier promised they would ) without raising American interest rates . |
| 25 | A hopeful and insufficiently applauded shift in emphasis was signalled in 1986 by the Report of the Attorney General 's Commission on Pornography , which sought to identify the relative harms caused by various forms of pornography , thus making it possible to draw up a list of priorities . |
| 26 | Research into fluorescent tube lighting , used widely in commercial and public buildings , has made it possible to save over 90 per cent of electricity . |
| 27 | Is it possible to return home with a tan after a fortnight 's holiday , after using only high protection sunscreens ? |
| 28 | Allocation determines which arcs in the network will be allocated to a particular node or centre ; districting makes it possible to outline rapidly sets of polygons in order to define specific areas of interest ( districts ) and to summarize their characteristics ; routeing provides a minimum path algorithm through the network , the arcs of which can be assigned weights according to road conditions , road capacity and so on . |
| 29 | In fact , they have made it possible to process far greater amounts of data than ever before . |
| 30 | Only when they came close was it possible to make out the dark shadow of a hand and arm carving each one , the sketchy outline of a black body behind , and above , a ghoulish half-lit face with gaping shadowy craters for mouth and eyes . |