Example sentences of "was [adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of this study , it was additionally possible to investigate ( a ) a variety of domain-specific dictionaries and compare their performance with the general dictionary , and ( b ) the extent to which collocations compiled from one domain could contribute to the recognition of text from another . |
| 2 | But it was obviously possible to book another P A. I mean that 's |
| 3 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 4 | To our surprise it was only possible to predict in half the patients the point at which they would block their coronary artery . |
| 5 | With the steady decline in the Southern protestant population until recently , it was only possible to have government funds for such schools if these schools were reasonably economical . |
| 6 | No similar possibility existed with the Soviet Jewish community , since it was only possible to have relations with the Soviet Union through its government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , in the present study it was only possible to make comparisons among symptomatic children , because ethical constraints precluded measurement of UOS pressure from children who were well . |
| 10 | The importance of Fritz and Hitzig 's work lay in their demonstration that with brief , low-intensity electrical stimulation it was only possible to evoke movement from a restricted area of the cerebral cortex , hence the name ‘ electrically excitable motor cortex ’ . |
| 11 | Watching the Nijinsky recreation it was suddenly possible to understand why . |
| 12 | It was thus possible to assemble a bridge pier and lower it complete onto the river bed . |
| 13 | It was thus possible to balance the attraction of the matter with the repulsion of the cosmological term . |
| 14 | It was thus possible to write a program that allocated scores to all the possible legal moves in a given position . |
| 15 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |
| 16 | Cursive in nature , secretary was a distinct hand initially , and written upright , but slopes were soon introduced ( in the interests of writing at speed ) and by 1637 it was already possible to speak of ‘ sett ’ , ‘ facill ’ and ‘ fast ’ hands , or , less opaquely , ‘ engrossing ’ ‘ upright ’ and ‘ sloped ’ . |
| 17 | Let us suppose that it was somehow possible to banish the feelings which give rise to such ugly behaviour in human beings . |
| 18 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |
| 19 | It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance . |
| 20 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 21 | It was just possible to make out the 300 foot radio mast at the Davistow Airfield , an ex-military airfield well worth a visit , offering splendid moorland isolation and three concrete runways , the longest being 1550 metres . |
| 22 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 23 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 24 | It was not possible to transcend the anecdotal because the structure of the INSET programme was not sufficiently supportive . |
| 25 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 26 | No , it was not possible to say when a commercially viable FBR would be built . |
| 27 | Second , we found that ill health was an important factor in the decision to retire early , although it was not possible to say whether or not it was the overriding factor . |
| 28 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
| 29 | The court in that case was quite happy to imply an air of confidence even though it was not possible to say how the confidential information ( that is , the prints taken from the engravings ) came into the defendant 's hands . |
| 30 | The lawyer said that it was not possible to say that the young people had suffered any permanent effects as a result of their experience . |