Example sentences of "be possible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of ecclesiastical property this may be done through the church authorities ; in the case of other buildings it will be possible to consult with the agents who handled the commercial matters concerned ; these can be identified by consultation with the local authority . |
| 2 | One important lesson which one can draw from this historical analysis is that it may not be possible to predetermine the nature of the proper relationship between politics and the press : each era spawns different sets of relationships which are closely linked to particular configurations of social , political and economic forces . |
| 3 | If more of them have to install the equipment to comply with an EC directive , it may eventually be possible to collect large amounts of phosphates and recycle them . |
| 4 | Education commission reports past and present have always addressed themselves in varying degrees of rigour to the analysis of educational objectives and it would be possible to collect an impressive dossier of high minded statements of intent . |
| 5 | Adam was talking to a man she vaguely recognised as a financier of some sort , and she wondered when it might be possible to leave without appearing rude . |
| 6 | In contrast to the other option , it might be possible to monitor and recover the waste . |
| 7 | In your situation , as both employees work in the kitchen , it might be possible to monitor the situation , eg checking on stock after each shift , etc . |
| 8 | Thus it should be possible to monitor changes in admission practices , to understand the mechanisms of change during medical education and beyond , and to provide long-term validation data for the process of selection itself . |
| 9 | I had decided that , much to my regret , it would not be possible to plan a DIY funeral for myself as it was not a job I would bequeath to friends , and my nearest close relations who might have co-operated were overseas . |
| 10 | These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them . |
| 11 | It would be possible to suppose , for instance , that the true Schrödinger-like equation , whatever it is , involves non-linearities which enforce a violation of the superposition principle for very complex systems , whilst essentially preserving it for simple systems to which we have actually applied quantum mechanics . |
| 12 | This means that it should be possible to design training modules that will be equally useful in the training of end-users and intermediaries . |
| 13 | It would not be possible to design either of these two garments in the STANDARD version of Designaknit as there is no way of creating the specially shaped front pieces . |
| 14 | In principle , too , it should be possible to design an artificial organism organised along the same basic principles that produce consciousness in living things . |
| 15 | The experiments show that this seems to depend both on temperature and pressure , but other experiments show different results ; when these matters are fully resolved then it may be possible to design experimental circumstances where optimal fusion occurs . |
| 16 | For example it may not be possible to design a car that is heavier and uses less fuel . |
| 17 | Thus , it may be possible to design hormone replacement that retains the ability to control menopausal symptoms while protecting against breast cancer . |
| 18 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 19 | No modification is required to the bulkhead so it would be possible to replace either before or after the engine replacement . |
| 20 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 21 | At the same time it would be possible to re-locate within the boundaries of the land owned by the Borough Council to improve drainage and avoid the part which would be affected by the proposed cross-town route . |
| 22 | Alternatively , it may be possible to acquire a company ( D Ltd ) with surplus FII , which would be interposed between A Ltd and C Ltd . |
| 23 | It may therefore be possible to reconcile the views of the opposing schools of thought by regarding global standardisation as the ultimate objective when substantial economies of scale are available but which may need to be modified in the context of the product concerned . |
| 24 | If we reject the naive application of the sensitive period concept and accept that familiarity of a certain kind does reduce sexual attractiveness , then it may be possible to reconcile the thinking of Freud with that of Westermarck . |
| 25 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 26 | If the interdependencies do not involve all SBUs in a corporate group , it might be possible to form largely separable business clusters and form the portfolio-grid analysis in terms of those rather than smaller SBUs . |
| 27 | If things go well , it seems that , certainly by the end of the century if not by the earlier date of 1997 , it may be possible to form a single currency to which Germany , France , the Benelux countries , Denmark and the EFTA countries will belong . |
| 28 | It would be possible to acknowledge that this type of emotional layer exists in human beings , and that it finds expression in the brutality men are capable of inflicting on one another . |
| 29 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 30 | It was argued that , using the right data-collection techniques , it should be possible to assemble information about the social world that is free of bias , and that could be analysed using the statistical techniques that had been developed . |