Example sentences of "possible [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Alternatively , it may be possible to acquire a company ( D Ltd ) with surplus FII , which would be interposed between A Ltd and C Ltd .
2 Is it possible to acquire a rider 's insurance only and if so , could you suggest which insurance would be best ?
3 It is possible to arrange a sentence in different ways , to emphasise different aspects of the action it describes .
4 In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms .
5 But Royle refused to concede that the move was dead , saying : ‘ I do n't know yet whether it would be possible to arrange a loan . ’
6 Thus it is possible to compare a country 's relative contribution to the EC Budget with its share in allocated expenditures .
7 The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services .
8 In autumn 1989 she asked her colleague , Annie Caubet , head of the Louvre 's Department of Oriental Antiquities , if it would be possible to mount a loan exhibition while the objects were off view .
9 Would it be possible to mount a research project into that , do you suppose ?
10 In discussions with the child it is often possible to plan a course of work to meet the individual 's needs so that the learning process is negotiated rather than dictated .
11 I had decided that , much to my regret , it would not be possible to plan a DIY funeral for myself as it was not a job I would bequeath to friends , and my nearest close relations who might have co-operated were overseas .
12 Joshua , did Mr Justice Garland explain why it would n't be possible to instruct a jury to ignore the publicity and concentrate on the specific charges .
13 These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence .
14 ‘ I do n't think it 's possible to like a sadist , do you ?
15 This weekend it is possible to sense a feeling that they can do no more .
16 In horses , although a history of donkey contact and clinical signs may be suggestive of D. arnfieldi infection , it is often not possible to confirm a diagnosis by demonstrating larvae in the faeces .
17 The single line editor is not available to BBCBASIC(Z80) , but it is possible to include a line editing procedure in your BBCBASIC(Z80) programs .
18 It is possible to indulge a passion for military history , bridge , or photography in beautiful surroundings thousands of miles from home , with resident experts as guides and teachers .
19 In addition it should be possible to conduct a survey of the surrounding sea bed to prospect for wreckage or other surviving finds .
20 The approaches to gathering linguistic information described in the next chapter are all based on the assumption that it is possible to sample a child 's language and that , under certain conditions , this will provide a useful indication of the child 's linguistic ability in other situations .
21 The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations .
22 Mrs Young , intelligent besides comforting , asked , ‘ Do you mean it 's possible to uncouple a car while you 're actually on the train ?
23 If it is not possible to attend a back to nursing course there are various distance learning packages available which can be studied successfully at home .
24 On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces .
25 The Zoo is unique amongst British zoos because of its hilltop setting , and is one of the most beautifully situated in the whole of Europe , where it is possible to see a variety of birds , animals and reptiles , in their natural settings .
26 Indeed , if the prudent poor are a minority in the majority coalition , then it is possible to see a reason why the middle and lower-middle income ranges appear to come out well in redistributive studies .
27 And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean .
28 It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate .
29 It should be possible to obtain a compromise which is effective in the legislation and which says , in effect , ’ There will be some crossings which are so rarely used that people are not inconvenienced by their closure . ’
30 So the medical profession , in the future as in the past , must bear the responsibility unless it is possible to obtain a decision from the courts .
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