Example sentences of "was possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , at that time it was possible to combat complaints with the argument that it was necessary to control noise and nuisance . |
| 2 | The former believed that it was possible to regenerate people ( this applied emphatically to the young ) and , therefore , progress could be assumed . |
| 3 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 4 | It was possible to see both good and bad in any view , and this proved ‘ the vanity as well as the uncertainty of human knowledge ’ . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 6 | At the far end it was possible to see four mock Grecian columns , painted white and glowing in the light of a single bulb . |
| 7 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 8 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 9 | At one time each village had its own traditional dress , and it was possible to see the influences of different regions of mainland Portugal , particularly the Minho district , on the women 's clothing . |
| 10 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 11 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 12 | Although the wall foundations had been totally removed it was possible to see their ghost in the place where they had been . |
| 13 | This most unpleasant task was completed yesterday , and from our new positions it was possible to see the beginnings of conflict between the Croats and the Titos , which ended in the wounding of some 30 to 40 Croats after which the shooting died down . " |
| 14 | In the red-lit dimness it was possible to see the mutilated Tree Spirits more plainly now and Fenella thought there had never been anything quite so dreadful . |
| 15 | It was possible to see into all its parts freely . |
| 16 | The deeper excavations produced the first complete fossil Bradyodont ( broadtoothed ) Ratfish to be found in Britain and for the fist time it was possible to see how five separately named fossil fragments previously supposed to belong to five different creatures actually fitted together like a jigsaw to form one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And they were not all billionaires : it was possible to take a ten day cruise to North Africa for £9 . |
| 19 | To get the specimen from overseas to the artist was the normal practice , but sometimes it was possible to take the artist , or to send him , to the animals . |
| 20 | Furthermore , while it was possible to take into account many of the phonological variations attributable to fast speech production , the analysis excluded a consideration of phonological assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 21 | He lived and died in Königsberg , never venturing beyond the province , and had the reputation of being the contented bachelor from whose afternoon walk it was possible to set one 's watch . |
| 22 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 23 | A narrow gallery ran around the other three sides of the hall from which it was possible to watch the dancers or enjoy the band — a real band , at least a dozen musicians , all in uniform blazers and bow ties . |
| 24 | Certainly it was possible to purchase shrouds ready-made by , at the latest , the second quarter of the seventeenth century , and Gittings makes mention of the body of Reginald Shrawley , a brother of the Hospital of St John , Canterbury , being buried in ‘ a sheet , shirt and cap ’ , costing , in all , four shillings . |
| 25 | Therefore , because capitalism as a system posited a separation of state and direct economic power — in its classical form — it was possible to examine the regularities of economic processes and development by abstracting the role of the state from this process . |
| 26 | It was possible to examine sickness absence within an organisation with a single sickness absence policy . |
| 27 | Since it was possible to examine only a sample of such studies , what follows is aimed to reflect the fact of risk related fertility patterns rather than to give an accounting of the extent and paths of influence . |
| 28 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
| 29 | My father wished me to try for a history scholarship and I occasionally read as hard as it was possible to do without any interest in history beyond the attempt to memorize facts … . |
| 30 | It was possible to do this . |