Example sentences of "it was possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 2 | The case highlights the extent to which it was possible for the religious intellectuals to misjudge exactly where the consensus lay , as well as the extent to which an evolving historical situation which created areas for new decision-making provided the field for a new power contest . |
| 3 | A priest from County Galway , in a letter to the Irish Times , informed that Dr Enda McDonagh , a noted Roman catholic moral theologian , had told priests of the Tuam archdiocese in January that it was possible to make a distinction between the church 's teaching on the ideal of marriage and divorce as a civil right . |
| 4 | I did not know it was possible for foie gras to be tasteless , but the complete omission of seasoning certainly showed I was wrong . |
| 5 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 6 | Europe appeared to accept her difference and individuality , whereas England demanded that she should somehow conform , assimilate , and yet at the same time , there was no way in which it was possible to really ‘ assimilate ’ . |
| 7 | On such a large piece it was possible to achieve the facial features and details of the clothing by gentle removal of material by holding the grinder and cutter to the work at many different angles carefully and in a safe manner . |
| 8 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 9 | Although the original HST plans provided for two daily return journeys between King 's Cross and Aberdeen , by judicious programming of the sets ( plus some extra sets transferred from the Western region ) it was possible to add on some extra trips to existing rosters . |
| 10 | He assured Field that it was possible to lay a cable on the ocean floor . |
| 11 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 12 | As in his earlier anthology , The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) , he sets out ‘ to question some of the deeply ingrained preconceptions about what it was possible to feel , think , and write in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 13 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 14 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 15 | In the shops it was possible to buy imported vodka , but not Polish ; supply could not meet demand . |
| 16 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 17 | Why the authorities were being so apparently perverse , it was possible only to speculate . |
| 18 | I did not like the idea very much as Sid was a smoker , and if he lit up during the night it was possible that we both could end up with a Blighty , or worse ! |
| 19 | Ramsey realized that it was possible for a mind to inhabit a partly unreal world . |
| 20 | Hinged along its top edge , it was possible to open the gun so that a film loop could be inserted round its profile . |
| 21 | The gay movement learned greatly from black analysis and black political experience , and it was possible in 1970 tor Huey Newton , joint founder of the Black Panther Party , to welcome alliance with the women 's and gay movements . |
| 22 | The battles over divorce during the period covered by Stone were about the licence to remarry , that is , about the formal recognition that it was possible fully to dissolve the marital contract . |
| 23 | I used to believe it was possible to make forecasts — market forecasts in particular — which were likely to be accurate . |
| 24 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |
| 25 | Leland and his son went off to Washington to see if it was possible to win a contract from the Government to manufacture engines on their own . |
| 26 | By using salvaged slates , it was possible to revise the roof of the garage to a ‘ cat-slide ’ form projecting out and down from the eaves of the main rear roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 27 | By excavating the existing ground-floor surface at this south end , it was possible to obtain a minimal , although legally acceptable , 2m ( 6–1/2ft ) headroom for non-habitable accommodation below the gallery . |
| 28 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 29 | By the introduction of a 75 x 75mm ( 3 x 3in ) square-section hollow steel post sited close to the centre of the room for the support of heavy timber trimmers , it was possible to construct a gallery which extends between the flank walls on modestly-sized 38 x 150mm ( 1–1/2 x 6in ) joists , carrying boards which give a platform 2m ( 6–1/2ft ) wide overlooking the larger part of the living-room . |
| 30 | It was possible to leave untouched the greater part of the existing structure . |