Example sentences of "[adv] possible to find " in BNC.

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1 It is thus possible to find cases where a final plosive becomes a fricative or nasal ( e.g. ‘ that side ’ , ‘ good night ’ ) , but most unlikely that a final fricative or nasal would become a plosive .
2 The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 .
3 Is it not possible to find an understanding of faith that is compatible with uncertainty rather than certainty of the existence of a Deity ?
4 For example , the numerator might be a count of people in a postcode sector who have , say , a cancer , yet , because the census and health data are reported for different areal units , it is not possible to find the appropriate at-risk population for the denominator and so compute a reliable incidence ratio .
5 There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers .
6 West Belfast should be treated as a special case and a uniform grant at the Premium 3 level given for all trainees ; alternative solutions must be found where it is simply not possible to find employers to take second year trainees ; cover should be given to management committees to protect them from personal liability in the event of insolvency .
7 If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found .
8 This may be too strong ; it is possible to state " general rules " for the interpretation of some common provisions , but those rules are only rebuttable presumptions and it is generally possible to find authorities to support a different interpretation .
9 He himself admits that both the continental staff and the locally recruited waitresses are skilful , but privately he regrets that it is no longer possible to find enough male British waiters , as he feels this would ‘ look better ’ .
10 Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief .
11 However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances .
12 It is almost always possible to find out the answers to basic questions about pay and conditions prior to the interview .
13 The answer , of course , is to drill a hole , but it is not always possible to find a drill to suit the nails you are using .
14 In science it is not always possible to find one theory which accounts for and describes every aspect of an event .
15 Provided only that A is real , it is always possible to find real symmetric matrices B , C satisfying CA = B ( see 2.10.3 ) .
16 Once you have lists where you are confident that you are hearing the tone correctly , these can then be used as drills following the same procedure as before , i.e. listening and mimicking down and across the lists : It is by no means always possible to find a high frame preceding the place of substitution .
17 Such a separation is called space-like , and in this case it is always possible to find an inertial frame such that t 1 = t 2 with the separation being a spatial distance .
18 It is not always possible to find a suitable theta-solvent for a polymer and methods have been developed which allow unperturbed dimensions to be estimated in non-ideal ( good ) solvents .
19 In the most remote areas , like central Wales , it is still possible to find three traditional types of rural community namely ‘ scattered settlements ’ , ‘ rural villages ’ and ‘ market towns ’ ( Williams , 1976 ) and in other rural areas , like North Herefordshire , Lewis and Maund ( 1979 ) have questioned the true significance of social class , life style and length of residence as determinants of intra-community behaviour .
20 Regrettably , it is still possible to find outmoded , noisy extractor fans in use in some facilities .
21 For r { 24.74 it is still possible to find some trajectories which spiral into C+ , but , at r = rH 24.74 , C+ lose stability and in r } 24.74 all numerically computed trajectories wander forever near the strange attractor .
22 Nevertheless it is still possible to find L less than P , as in our example .
23 While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty .
24 It is also possible to find explicit expressions for the bulk compliance B(t) and the shear compliance J(t) .
25 It is also possible to find support for this reading by considering Anderson 's interruptions of other speakers .
26 12 When you are in the country look for a rotting log or branch-even in the town , it is often possible to find a piece of rotting timber .
27 But it is now possible to find a kennel or cattery , using the Recommended Kennel and Cattery Guide , which lists the country 's top boarding establishments , supported by comments from satisfied customers .
28 It is sometimes possible to find a companion , or ‘ living-in help ’ .
29 It is sometimes possible to find a few rare or special examples of an artist 's work that dealers have sold at rising prices , but this is no basis for saying prices for that artist 's work in general have risen .
30 Allison described unemployment as ‘ the problem of the most pressing importance ’ , and declared that the Labour Party had a duty to ‘ do all that is humanly possible to find work locally for our unemployed fellow citizens ’ ( Election leaflet 1921 ) .
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