Example sentences of "is it possible " in BNC.

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1 Yet is it possible to assert , he wrote , that work done with a lifting of the heart is better than work done with a contracting of the stomach ?
2 Is it possible still to buy this kind of edging , and if so , can you please supply details of the manufacturer or stocklist ?
3 In consciousness alone is it possible to confront at least some empirical properties and apprehend them directly , and if consciousness is analysed in terms of some purely non-mental notion this grasp is lost ; just as , in the analysis of thought , if the irreducible generality of thought is analysed away , our ability to think and refer is wished away with it .
4 IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ?
5 I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ?
6 Nor is it possible to say with confidence how much of the increase is due to melting glaciers and how much to thermal expansion .
7 Is it possible to write about Throwing Muses without confining their strange and terrible beauty , taming it , making it easier to live with ?
8 All objects , such as trees , stones , and books , whether in their tangible or visible aspects , are such that their ‘ esse [ their mode of existence ] is percipi [ to be perceived ] , nor is it possible they should have any existence , out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ .
9 How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ?
10 How is it possible for someone to take my or anybody 's sin upon himself ?
11 How is it possible for Christ 's death to affect me ?
12 Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ?
13 Is it possible to predetermine the types of conduct regarded as indecent ?
14 Nor is it possible , practical or necessary to recreate precisely those conditions which were only achieved after decades , in the old land meadows , of a specialist system of grazing and mowing supported only by an annual dressing of fold-yard manure .
15 Is it possible that ‘ secular ’ Protestants have a good deal of respect for evangelical beliefs and values even though they do not share them ?
16 Is it possible she may inform them …
17 Is it possible , Jock ? ’
18 Is it possible to know something and yet not know , if you see what I mean ?
19 She spoke in little more than a whisper : ‘ Is it possible to speak to Comrade Levkovich ?
20 Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones .
21 Is it possible that Major would rather go into opposition — with the dangers that would mean for his continued leadership of the Conservative party — than offer PR and Scottish devolution to the Liberal Democrats ?
22 Or is it possible that no one ever catalogued these shark-tooth necklaces and ivory ceremonial stools ?
23 Nor is it possible to imagine the Regent allowing such a hideous series of plates to be made to commemorate his coronation , though , to be fair , even Regency designers might have had trouble making an elegant plate incorporating a photographic portrait of the old reprobate .
24 Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them , without arousing the hostility of the Warden ?
25 The key to the underlying tension here is in the line : ‘ Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them without arousing the hostility of the Warden ? ’
26 Alternatively , is it possible to find another way altogether , a way which does not simply resolve the dilemma , but one which transforms the problem into a solution ?
27 How is it possible to exploit coral reefs for tourism , for example , but also use them as a food source ?
28 Is it possible to make sense of revelation in any other way ?
29 Is it possible to associate God with particular events without such a presumption ?
30 Is it possible to fit the 90/110 door tops as the metal runners keep rusting out .
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