Example sentences of "perfectly [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It gives us the opportunity to work on persuading the huge catchment area around us that it is perfectly possible to get the Hamilton habit after work when experiencing a top evening out . ’ |
| 32 | It is , however , perfectly possible to write a commercial on Monday , shoot it on Tuesday , do the post-production on Wednesday and have it on air on Thursday : for large retail clients , at sale time , this is not that uncommon ! |
| 33 | Tough standards of energy efficiency are perfectly possible to introduce , together with a combination of power from wind , solar , hydro , biofuels , and geothermal ( heat from rocks ) sources . |
| 34 | It is perfectly possible to communicate with little or no such similarity or else children would never learn their native tongue . |
| 35 | It is perfectly possible to obtain all the protein you need from a balanced daily diet . |
| 36 | ‘ It is perfectly possible to combine a family with a career if you really want to . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ It is perfectly possible to combine a family with a career if you really want to . ’ |
| 38 | It is perfectly possible to build a tag that , for example , creates a blank page before it but is not allowed to become separated from the next block of text . |
| 39 | And with a little give and take it would have been perfectly possible to share Water Gypsy , she thought resentfully . |
| 40 | In any case , it is perfectly possible to buy second-hand or reconditioned models at a fraction of the price of new ones as long as you are prepared to accept the risk that they might eventually develop faults which could prove expensive . |
| 41 | In 1984 , it was perfectly possible to buy tickets on the morning of the Grand Slam decider with France . |
| 42 | On paper this may sound like splitting hairs , but in practice it is perfectly possible to make the difference clear . |
| 43 | It should also be stressed that it is perfectly possible to have reservations about , or even to reject , both these schools , and yet to accept that there has indeed been a major shift in the economy and geography of the UK since the mid-1960s ! |
| 44 | For instance , it is perfectly possible to have more than one ( up to three , in fact ) PC connected to the 4300 at any one time , and the printer will accept data from any one at a time , or concurrently , in effect queueing the jobs itself . |
| 45 | Lord Greene MR stated in Saltman that it is perfectly possible to have a confidential document , be it a formula , a plan , a sketch , or something of that kind , which is the result of work done by the maker on materials which may be available for the use of anybody . |
| 46 | It 's perfectly possible to run a GEM based DTP package — like Timeworks or Timeworks Lite — on your machine , or to use Jetsetter , from Garbo Systems which is one of the better DOS based DTP programs . |
| 47 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of groups or individuals who have power without actually ruling in the official , visible sense . |
| 48 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of different types of ontological individuals , but there is no such " principle of individuation " as might enable us to pronounce any given type as basic in an absolute sense . |
| 49 | It is perfectly possible to catch rabbits while ferreting with snow lying on the ground , but I do think that snow makes long-netting impossible as the net becomes clogged , wet and inoperable . |
| 50 | The hon. Member for Romford was also perfectly right to point out that , in the construction industry perhaps more than in most industries , health and safety are of considerable importance . |
| 51 | They are perfectly adequate to create a strong , rigid , reliable frame for the wardrobe |
| 52 | It is perfectly proper to say that , as a natural resource , gas is a state asset and to allow as much competition as possible in its exploitation . |
| 53 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 54 | It was perfectly proper to infer prejudice from the mere passage of time : in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's decision was based on two flawed findings of justification and no prejudice . |
| 55 | It is perfectly proper to raise aesthetic questions in courses in biological sciences or ( in courses on occupational therapy ) on the aesthetic quality of aids given to patients ; or to ask moral questions about work in nuclear physics or ( in legal studies ) about sentencing policy in the courts ; or to find out the historical development of any subject . |
| 56 | Well , when we were doing the long-running series , Today 's History , it seemed perfectly sensible to do a programme about women 's history , along with a number of other things which were n't adequately covered . |
| 57 | We hereby admit that California is , in fact , a lush paradise , where it is perfectly sensible to grow crops such as rice and alfalfa with subsidised water . |
| 58 | Ah , I was just going to say , if it had n't already been done , erm Friends of the Earth will be perfectly willing to do that . . |
| 59 | I say ‘ certain ’ because they do n't have to try all that hard : there appears to be a steady supply of scientists , both American and British , who , along with associates not necessarily involved in direct research at all , are perfectly willing to sell the Soviets anything they want — provided , that is , the price is right . |
| 60 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |