Example sentences of "it possible [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speed at which VELA operates makes it possible to record results from experiments that are difficult to measure any other way . |
| 2 | This has made it possible to set goals for growth , under the guidance of the Holy Spirit , and to hit them . |
| 3 | If there can be no way of guaranteeing the full representation of all views , is it possible to create structures which lessen or remove restrictions on press ‘ freedom ’ ? |
| 4 | A distinction between the state , as the institution which carries on the function of government , and the government as the politicians currently in office , makes it possible to oppose policies without denying legitimacy , or even to challenge the legitimacy of particular ministerial procedures , without confronting the constitution as a whole . |
| 5 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 6 | The object of the Bill is to help to clear the streets , and , for this purpose , to make it possible to charge prostitutes who ply their trade in the streets and to stiffen the penalties against them . |
| 7 | The archer fish 's large eyes can be aligned so that , like our own , they produce a three-dimensional image , making it possible to judge distances . |
| 8 | These arrangements with established publishers also make it possible to reach bookshops through direct sales representation . |
| 9 | But this is overcome by the successive production series , which make it possible to incorporate improvements suggested by experience , once they have been fully thought out . |
| 10 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 11 | Like others , BOC was seeking to create advantages from an international presence and make it possible to do things a purely local operator could not afford . |
| 12 | One will not arrive at the concept ‘ mass ’ through observation alone , however closely one scrutinizes colliding billiard-balls , weights on springs , orbiting planets , etc. , nor is it possible to teach others the meaning of mass merely by pointing to such events . |
| 13 | ESRC support will make it possible to test theories systematically and rigorously to answer such questions as : To what extent do differences in national cultures and tradition in Central and Eastern Europe cause different responses in post-Communist societies ? |
| 14 | Observations of behaviour based on objective measurement will make it possible to produce statements of cause and effect . |
| 15 | The problem is less obvious but deep-rooted , and can perhaps be most clearly formulated in the following question : Given the turbulent and unstable historical context of post-1914 France , is it possible to produce novels which are technically and artistically successful , politically effective , and accurately reflect contemporary social reality ? |
| 16 | This innovation makes it possible to produce rugs that are almost twice as long as the distance between the horizontal beams . |
| 17 | This will make it possible to suggest ways in which the massive foreign aid efforts currently under way to prevent very serious and increasing food and fuel deficiencies be made more effective . |
| 18 | It is possible to store such an amazing amount of information , but this has to be carefully organised on the disk to make it possible to find files easily . |
| 19 | Cheap newsprint ; new technology which made it possible to attract readers by printing illustrations relatively cheaply ; growing mass literacy , at least in western Europe ; mass newspaper readerships ; a resulting growth of mass public feeling , often emotional and volatile , on international questions : all these were now adding another element to the changing picture of relations between the European states . |
| 20 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 21 | This makes it possible to study samples isolated at high dilution in an inert matrix of a solid such as N 2 or Ar . |
| 22 | Is it possible to pin-point turning-points in the past when ( a ) one period becomes significantly different from another ( " periodisation " ) or ( b ) decisions are made by individuals which significantly affect the outcome of some future event ? |
| 23 | Hauppauge , New York-based Standard Microsystems Corp is cutting the recommended retail price of its Token-Ring network adaptors to $400 from $600 , saying that using its own semiconductor technology makes it possible to cut prices while continuing to add features and maintain margins on the adaptors . |
| 24 | If the calls of the CBI and others for such a cut had not been so loud , the pound would probably have been stronger still , making it possible to cut rates even sooner , and by more . |
| 25 | That just as you are making it possible to select conceptions that will result in the right sort of people , as you define them , and reject the potentially bad ones , so it would be possible to reject the good and retain the bad . |
| 26 | This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys . |
| 27 | Is it possible to get tickets for the Kop or are they usually sold out ? |