Example sentences of "still possible [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But it is still possible to fall between tort damages and entitlement to social security .
2 A decade or three back , when most of us could visit most countries without a visa , there was little expectation that this would prove a high water mark and that restrictions would steadily increase , but we may not be able to assume that the freedom to dial direct to distant countries will continue to increase : Egypt has cut direct-dial telephone links with Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , Sudan and Iran to make it harder for Moslem militant leaders in exile to communicate with groups at home and organise terrorist attacks , the Al-Akhbar newspaper reports ; it is still possible to call via an operator .
3 Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix .
4 I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country .
5 Moreover if a topic does not happen to have the ontological status ascribed to it , it is still possible to refer to it identifyingly qua topic with the phrase " the same A " .
6 It is still possible to refer to the common law position .
7 It is difficult to interpret this without further purpose-designed experimentation , but it is still possible to speculate about possible reasons for the observed pattern .
8 It was still possible to pay for private treatment in the health service , but for most people it was a case of having treatment " on the national health . "
9 In the absence of coelacanths , it was still possible to toy with the idea that species and genera had their life-spans as individuals do , even though some ‘ living fossils ’ among plants should have made this more difficult than it was .
10 It is still possible to fly for reasonably affordable rates in this country despite the sometimes quite exorbitant sums charged by some flying schools .
11 The cut fell on 145 , one over par , and consequently 63 of the original field of 83 made it under what is known as the ‘ 10-stroke rule ’ — anyone who is within 10 shots of the leader , on the theoretical grounds that it is still possible to win from there .
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