Example sentences of "be [adv] possible " in BNC.

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1 Unlike the natural sciences , which deal largely in results , the social sciences are rightly concerned for practice , perhaps because results are rarely possible in an exact mathematical sense .
2 Global solutions are rarely possible .
3 Theorists sympathetic to AI , by contrast , are primarily interested in how such capacities are computationally possible .
4 Nor would it have been constitutionally possible for me to have become head of the Church of England . ’
5 And it would have been entirely possible with the right companion .
6 Time and time again it is made clear that many of Dan 's great exploits are only possible because of the application of science .
7 However , such reductions are only possible if the word ending forms a unique route in the tree , and not if the ending is part of other words .
8 The time saved could be spent adding features like voice recognition that are only possible on a more advanced platform such as PowerPC .
9 Efficiency measures are only possible when outputs can be separated from each other and possess uniform characteristics .
10 Efficiency measures are only possible when outputs can be separated from each other and possess uniform characteristics .
11 It 's just that the standard methods of triangulation and trigonometrical calculation take so much more manpower and time and are only possible with the advent of modern mathematics and the invention of the decimal point and zero , which the circle markers did not have .
12 Such broad groupings are only possible when many separate thin section analyses are grouped together ; they are not applicable where the study is of one sandstone sequence from one particular area of a sedimentary basin .
13 How else would I be able to think of states of affairs that are merely possible ?
14 Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works .
15 Overall most anthropologists would probably see indirect connection between all the factors which Engels considered , but these interrelations must remain much more problematic and ambiguous than they might seem at first , and the general conclusions which Engels sought in the work of Morgan are not possible .
16 Physical fitness is most important for coping with these extremes of climate , because lengthy periods of acclimatisation are not possible — work must start immediately on arrival in a new theatre of operations .
17 This might have been a drawback of such accounts but for the fact that linguistic accounts understood in accord with the current consensus among analytic philosophers either are not possible or lack any philosophical interest .
18 It in no way means that other outcomes are not possible , particularly if the system is perturbed by say , bad weather , or a strike , or in the case of embryos , by experimental manipulation .
19 Space considerations dictate that detailed vocabularies are not possible in these present pages , but the following volumes contain wordlists which may be of value : Anglo-Saxon England by Sir Frank .
20 This means that some quieter things can be done which are not possible if there are a great number of children around .
21 What matters is assessing situations which are possible and those that , even with thought and adaptation , are not possible , and using the possibilities to full advantage .
22 The least favourable reports are on systems which only partially embrace signing or fingerspelling , and systems based on fingerspelling alone are not possible unless speech is slowed down considerably .
23 Where such options are not possible , though , status denial begins to have adverse implications for professional motivation and classroom performance .
24 In parts of northern Australia , where there are heavy seasonal rains , the ground becomes so waterlogged for part of the year that these downward migrations are not possible .
25 As with the purchase of a share , the maximum loss that can be suffered by anyone who buys a futures contract is the initial price of the asset ( S t ) , since negative share prices are not possible .
26 The NHS has always been considered a ‘ good buy ’ internationally in terms of administrative costs , and although precise comparisons are not possible , clearly remains so , certainly when compared with the 24.1% calculated for the United States .
27 Simulation tends to be used in problems where mathematical solutions are not possible , or where long time scales are involved ( eg predicting — population changes over a 30 year period ) , or where there is no other way of tackling the problem ( eg charting space-satellite trajectories ) .
28 Such detailed analyses of aggradation deposits as this are not possible by purely geomorphological methods , but require considerations of stratigraphy and especially of fossils .
29 Although all things are not possible all of the time students possess a considerable measure of initiative in programme design .
30 In particular provenance studies , both from modal compositions and from quartz grain variations , are not possible without petrographic analysis ; these form an important aid in the interpretation of ancient sediments and their depositional environments .
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