Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] perfectly possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Professor Smithers argues : ‘ It 's perfectly possible , especially now we 've got all the experiences of devising a national curriculum and of working out key stages and ways of testing them . |
| 2 | Masha : ‘ It 's perfectly possible for a woman to be responsive to a sexual advance and yet feel she has been compelled . |
| 3 | It 's perfectly possible , if somewhat unwise , for him to charge clean across the battlefield and engage the enemy on turn one . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , it 's perfectly possible that he did discover Nicola was having an affair a couple of weeks ago but only threw out the photos last night . |
| 5 | It 's perfectly possible to run a GEM based DTP package — like Timeworks or Timeworks Lite — on your machine , or to use Jetsetter , from Garbo Systems which is one of the better DOS based DTP programs . |
| 6 | Even so , it 's perfectly possible — nay easy — to open a 24 bit image into a 256 colour environment under Windows ( assuming your graphics card supports it — and most do ) , or , better yet , a 16 bit , 32,000 colour environment , and edit it there . |
| 7 | It 's perfectly possible , is n't it ? ’ |
| 8 | In the case of human beings of course you have to notice that men seem to have an advantage because as I think I mention i in the lectures , it 's perfectly possible , you see this happening in our own society which is supposed to be monogamous , perfectly possible for a man to get married , raise a family and then in his forties to desert his wife and raise a second family . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's perfectly possible to take a violent dislike to someone on sight ! ’ |
| 10 | erm We 've got to be very careful about the word ‘ useful ’ , because in my experience it 's perfectly possible for people to know an enormous amount of history and to make terrible mistakes . |
| 11 | It is perfectly possible to obtain all the protein you need from a balanced daily diet . |
| 12 | Eliot asserts that it is perfectly possible to claim ‘ that primitive man acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is perfectly possible to replace the hot spots in a Land Rover cylinder head . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Similarly , it is perfectly possible for John to have examined the legs of the table . |
| 20 | On paper this may sound like splitting hairs , but in practice it is perfectly possible to make the difference clear . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But of course it is perfectly possible for Bristol graduates who are members of Senate to reflect a Convocation view there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is perfectly possible to communicate with little or no such similarity or else children would never learn their native tongue . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is perfectly possible , for example , to analyse your meat and two veg . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |