Example sentences of "[adv] possible [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is only possible to highlight the basic points and common principles in this chapter .
2 It is only possible to give a general description above on how to go about it , since every helicopter requires its own particular technique to produce the desired result .
3 Here it is only possible to give a general flavour of this case-history :
4 At this high level , it was only possible to make a broad assessment of these requirements , and further ideas were developed as the study progressed to lower levels of detail .
5 A crowd then assembled and threw pepper at the police , causing such a commotion that it was only possible to get the one-legged prisoner to the police station with the assistance of twelve constables .
6 It is thus possible to define the functioning relationships as attributes of the intersecting sub-spaces .
7 From the number density of craters on these regions it is thus possible to establish the lunar cratering rate over a considerable period of time as shown in Figure 6.9 .
8 It is already possible to identify the main characteristics of the School of Aphrodisias , its chronological framework and some aspects of its contribution to ancient sculpture .
9 It is not possible to describe a suitable treatment for every type of window and there is no such thing as a standard window , since two identical windows located in a different position on a wall may need quite a different treatment .
10 It is not possible to describe the whole service , how it fits into the Institute 's structure , and its relationship with the chartered accountants ' Joint Ethics Committee within the constraints of one short article .
11 Because twin gables flanking a central valley gutter had been adopted to cap the elevation of the 1922 extension , it was not possible to form an upper storey in this section .
12 It was not possible to confirmthat the immunoreactive signal in serum was due to APGPR but the immunoreactive signal in urine coeluted with synthetic APGPR .
13 At this stage you will notice that no attempt has been made to count the words as it was not possible to use the macro record facility for this operation .
14 In his introduction to part ( 1 of Critique et vérité Barthes argues that the degree of critical self-consciousness in literature means that it is not possible to draw a clear distinction between criticism and literature .
15 Now , it is in the nature of the critique of this aspect of classical Marxism which has already been proposed that it is not possible to erect an alternative ‘ general theory ’ .
16 Of these 123 , a full interview was obtained with l04 principal carers at the time of the patient 's referral to the project ( six carers refused to be interviewed , and it was not possible to interview a further nine for reasons such as the carer 's ill health or death or because the patient and carer soon moved out of the area ; for the remaining four some information was obtained by telephone ) .
17 Although it is the case that many of Freud 's speculations were mistaken , something he half , if not fully , expected would happen within biology , it is not possible to ignore the other aspects of the death-instinct theory which have an application within psychoanalysis , and its extension into sociology .
18 It is not possible to explain the vast structure of institutions to which we assign the name of property as the expression , the means of satisfaction , of man 's desire for physical objects .
19 It is therefore not possible to set a theoretical limit to society 's power to use law to enforce moral rules , i.e. it is not possible to define an area of morality into which the criminal law may not under any circumstances intervene .
20 In this situation , whether an arbitrage transaction is attractive or not depends on the time preferences of the arbitrageur , and it is not possible to state a general no-arbitrage condition .
21 More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available .
22 Now it is not possible to give a confident answer to the question whether the delay was unreasonable .
23 How far unions are binding , how far they are exclusive , how long they last , whether they bind men and women equally , whether sexual unions are public or merely private matters , whether the recognition of unions is inevitably linked with the legitimation of children — all these questions and many more are so variable that many anthropologists would argue that is not possible to give a valid universal definition of marriage [ Leach , 1961 ] .
24 They depend on many factors , and it is not possible to give a full account of them here ; you will find details in Refs [ 17 ] and [ 18 ] .
25 It is not possible to give a fair criticism of their case here .
26 It was not possible to compare the 26-way tree , reduced memory tree and trie directly with the dawg because the word lists used in the earlier experiments were no longer available .
27 As mentioned above , it was not possible to perform a detailed study of the Ca 2 + sensitivity of K + channels in excised inside out patches .
28 However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion .
29 It is not possible to predict the unimaginable .
30 Whilst it is not possible to fool the private sector repeatedly , issues of credibility and the extent of discretion are important .
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