Example sentences of "possible [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Let us suppose that it was somehow possible to banish the feelings which give rise to such ugly behaviour in human beings .
2 Alternatively , it may be possible to acquire a company ( D Ltd ) with surplus FII , which would be interposed between A Ltd and C Ltd .
3 Is it possible to acquire a rider 's insurance only and if so , could you suggest which insurance would be best ?
4 Using an expert system ( ES ) , it is possible to acquire the knowledge/expertise from experts and make it always available , i.e. to the less skilled servicing personnel .
5 In some cases , it may be possible to connect a Nicam Video to a non-Nicam TV with a link-up to your existing hi-fi system for top quality sound performance .
6 I was deeply disappointed that neither the hon. Member for Tooting , in a 40-minute speech , nor the hon. Member for Hammersmith , except in an intervention , found it possible to acknowledge the contribution made by housing associations .
7 Even by the beginning of the Cambrian period , when fossils start to become easy to find and many different kinds of animals had acquired preservable hard parts , it is possible to classify the fossils found in the rocks into broadly similar groups .
8 It was also possible to classify the States of Europe according to their ability to wage war , whether on their own or with the help of subsidies and other encouragements from their more powerful neighbours .
9 Professional chemists are very suitable for this type of study ; it is possible to classify the types of work carried out , and other aspects of each job held over the career , in a clear and systematic way .
10 If yarn is smooth , it is possible to weave a very thick strand , but thick yarns which include very large knop or loops and some thick mohairs can be difficult to weave .
11 Thus it is possible to hit a spiritual " rock bottom " in addictive disease while still having employment , family and possessions : each person 's disease and recovery is unique to him or her .
12 As with chariots , when you are firing at a War Wagon with a stone thrower , or any other weapon which has a template to represent its effect , it is possible to hit the horses , the War Wagon , or the crew depending on the position of the template .
13 In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms .
14 But Royle refused to concede that the move was dead , saying : ‘ I do n't know yet whether it would be possible to arrange a loan . ’
15 Is it possible to arrange a different time for the accounts to be returned ?
16 It is possible to arrange a sentence in different ways , to emphasise different aspects of the action it describes .
17 Is it possible to arrange the search space such that these conditions do not arise ?
18 Thus it is possible to compare a country 's relative contribution to the EC Budget with its share in allocated expenditures .
19 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 .
20 Because a detailed record of economic activity statuses was collected by the After Redundancy study , it was possible to compare the proportion of time spent by each person since being made redundant in different forms of employment status .
21 For example , it is possible to compare the effects of two experimental conditions on early or late components of the response , the former often being considered to represent ‘ sensory ’ events , the latter ‘ cognitive ’ .
22 Finally , it is possible to compare the findings for men and women with similar occupational status .
23 Thus , for each of the four townships , it should be possible to compare the users identified by the first prevalence study with the users generated by the snowball sample in the same township to produce the required ratio of hidden to known use .
24 On the other hand , it is often possible to compare the degrees of falsifiability of laws or theories .
25 It should be possible to compare the cost effectiveness of community based clinics with that of hospital outpatient care .
26 It is then possible to compare the post reform situation with the actual situation in terms of the distribution of living standards across households , average living standards , and incentives to work .
27 In most of the tests it was also possible to compare the results with those in age and sex matched healthy volunteers with and without H pylori .
28 By asking some of the questions listed above in the section on criteria , it is possible to compare the different systems .
29 This also means that it is not possible to compare the dissociation from isolated GC sites with that from clusters of such sites which may be stabilised by cooperative interaction .
30 Even if the musical language is seen as totally shop-soiled , then , it is still possible to rearticulate the fragments .
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