Example sentences of "[verb] possible [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 16-bit ’ audio has a signal-to-noise ratio which comfortably exceeds the full dynamic range of an orchestra , so it became possible to record orchestral music without any need to compress its dynamic range . |
| 2 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 3 | Because of the flying buttress system , it became possible to construct thinner walls as time passed instead of increasing the thickness to offset the large windows and higher vaults . |
| 4 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |
| 5 | To return to my burglary , it became possible to make alternative arrangements : to let family members know and to replace the presents with other things made available by other people or by just acknowledging that they would be replaced when the insurance money came through ! |
| 6 | It was , however , becoming possible to foresee local initiatives developing into a network which , although unlike the railways was never to become a truly national system of transport , would link the main industrial regions back to their sources of supply and , to a lesser extent , forward to their outlets . |
| 7 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 8 | In what ways may it become possible to create greater use of the recreational advantages and so to boost the tourist industry of Northern Ireland ? |
| 9 | The advent of relatively cheap microelectronics meant that by the late 1960s it had become possible to control these machines by dedicated mini- or micro-computers directly attached to them , such machines having ‘ computer numerically control ’ or CNC . |
| 10 | By the early 1980s , it had become possible to study modern linguistics , structuralism , semiotics , marxist theory , post structuralism , the sociology of literature , various brands of specifically literary theory , and cultural studies in some or other relation to English at a number of polytechnics and universities . |
| 11 | Recently it has become possible to obtain binocular mountings which take the form of a harness attached to the observer 's chest . |
| 12 | However it has not proved possible to obtain further details of this study . |
| 13 | On the basis of relatively small samples , only a few thousand in each of selected states , it proved possible to make accurate predictions of the electoral outcomes . |
| 14 | ‘ I have asked English Nature and the Countryside Commission for advice on priorities should it prove possible to designate new ESAs , ’ he said after the meeting . |
| 15 | If it proves possible to develop useful modelling links between financial and strategic analyses , DCF will be a device for simplifying and summarizing — quite apart from its theoretical justification . |
| 16 | In addition , it becomes possible to notice certain movements , just out of focus on the horizon . |
| 17 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 18 | It becomes possible to imagine other ways of living . |
| 19 | Drawing on the insights identified above — combining the principles of human resource management , management of excellence and total quality management — it becomes possible to propose four principles for human resource management in education ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 20 | Finally , and on an optimistic note , if information technology is used to structure the organisation of work in ways which allow more people greater flexibility and choice it becomes possible to share different kinds of work more equitably . |
| 21 | As the binary policy gained momentum , it remained possible to have that impression . |