Example sentences of "[is] perfectly possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perfectly possible to obtain all the protein you need from a balanced daily diet . |
| 2 | Eliot asserts that it is perfectly possible to claim ‘ that primitive man acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it ’ . |
| 3 | But in another way it is perfectly possible — because the cost of immunising a child against the six killer diseases , and quite possibly saving his or her life , is just around £6 . |
| 4 | Although a conviction is perfectly possible where no harm results — and such a case might still be regarded as a most serious non-fatal offence , since D tried to cause death , and the subjective principles confirm the high guilt — there are also cases where D's attempt to kill results in serious injury to the victim . |
| 5 | It is perfectly possible to replace the hot spots in a Land Rover cylinder head . |
| 6 | It may not be the path , but of course it is perfectly possible , although steep and hard , to get to the summit of Ben Nevis via this corrie although I can think of no mountaineer who would imagine a gushing , torrential waterfall to be the path , take off their socks and shoes and start trying to wade up it . |
| 7 | Within a comprehensive school it is perfectly possible for children to be ambitious and competitive , for them to submit to a proper discipline , one imposed both by their teachers , and by the rigours of the subject itself that they are studying . |
| 8 | If the condition is a recurrent one such as migraine or period pains , it is perfectly possible to use a book like this to find remedies that will give relief each time the pain occurs but it will not prevent the pain recurring next time . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , Jimmy and his colleagues were pipped for the single promotion place by Charlton Athletic on goal average alone , in the most exciting finish to a 3rd Division South season in the history of our club , but it is perfectly possible to argue that , had Jimmy Wilde become available to Palace just one or two matches earlier , Palace would have crowned his first season with us with success . |
| 10 | Similarly , it is perfectly possible for John to have examined the legs of the table . |
| 11 | On paper this may sound like splitting hairs , but in practice it is perfectly possible to make the difference clear . |
| 12 | Theoretically this is perfectly possible . |
| 13 | It is perfectly possible to go through a University career , satisfy the examiners , graduate in the splendour of the Great Hall , and leave as a Bristol graduate without ever once having thought how the whole thing has been organised . |
| 14 | But of course it is perfectly possible for Bristol graduates who are members of Senate to reflect a Convocation view there . |
| 15 | It is perfectly possible to catch rabbits while ferreting with snow lying on the ground , but I do think that snow makes long-netting impossible as the net becomes clogged , wet and inoperable . |
| 16 | It is perfectly possible to communicate with little or no such similarity or else children would never learn their native tongue . |
| 17 | Although it is perfectly possible for Hunter to have acquired his own Egyptian mummy for dissection , it appears from the above that he did not . |
| 18 | Of course , ‘ Little Bangs ’ would necessarily be widely separated , so it is perfectly possible that there simply are n't any near enough to us to be detected : in an infinite Universe , our local patch — vast though that volume of space might seem to us to be — would be very small indeed . |
| 19 | A change of fibre is perfectly possible but requires even more care in the checking tension , quantity and , above all , suitability in the resulting ‘ feel ’ and ‘ hang ’ of the knitted fabric . |
| 20 | A change of fibre is perfectly possible but requires even more care in checking tension , quantity and , above all , suitability in the resulting ‘ feel ’ and ‘ hang ’ of the knitted fabric . |
| 21 | It is perfectly possible , however , that something useful may be learned from experiments which fall short of demonstrating human levels of linguistic competence in apes , and I believe this is true of the projects designed to teach chimpanzees sign-language . |
| 22 | It is perfectly possible , for example , to analyse your meat and two veg . |
| 23 | Second , it fails to recognise what is signally obvious in the experience of many women , myself of course included , namely that it is perfectly possible to agree ‘ in one 's head ’ that certain images of women might be reactionary or damaging or oppressive , while remaining committed to them in emotion and desire . |
| 24 | Where average family size is only about two children , it is perfectly possible for women to delay marriage quite late — until their mid-30s — and still complete a family at or even above the average size . |
| 25 | In the technical sense it is perfectly possible for an organisation to have a hierarchical structure and to have popular and participatory decision-making . |
| 26 | The problem with such an approach is of course that if one 's starting-point is ‘ what are the scriptures fundamentally about ? ’ ( and not ‘ what is a priori right ? ’ — which would be an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position ) it is perfectly possible for others to contend that they consider some quite other theme to be ‘ fundamental ’ to the scriptures . |
| 27 | A half-crown 's worth of soy sauce also tends — unless you are keen on Chinese cooking -to remain an old faithful among the stores ; and although nothing can quite compare with fresh tarragon , it is perfectly possible to use the excellent Chiltern Herb Farm dried version . |
| 28 | It is perfectly possible for the lower-level subskills to produce an activity which resembles reading , but without attention integration will not be possible . |
| 29 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of groups or individuals who have power without actually ruling in the official , visible sense . |
| 30 | It should also be stressed that it is perfectly possible to have reservations about , or even to reject , both these schools , and yet to accept that there has indeed been a major shift in the economy and geography of the UK since the mid-1960s ! |