Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] possible [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period , you would discover two interesting things . |
| 2 | The findings from the investigation , as given above , caused both the client and the analysts to review the situation and concentrate first on the general organisation of the filing system as a whole , to determine if it were possible to achieve some degree of commonality as a prerequisite to the development of a computer support system . |
| 3 | If only it were possible to avoid these difficulties , and go island-hopping where they speak English , where the controllers are friendly and helpful , where all kinds of services are readily available , taxes are low and fuel plentiful . |
| 4 | The Head of Department accepted that the department had some responsibility for the insalubrious state of the Pottery Hut and that it was possible to do more 3D work , although the problem of group size in this should be recognised in the report . |
| 5 | I wondered how it was possible to love many men when you had once loved one more than your immortal soul , and whether Lili had ever loved like that , or whether this was a torment saved for ridiculous people like myself . |
| 6 | It was possible to spend all day wandering happily round and round the camp musing on the possibility of a hole cut in the wire here , a tunnel dug there , or an assault with scaling ladders somewhere else . |
| 7 | It was possible to classify rectal sensations into a group with no sensation , a group with intermittent need for defecation , and a group with continued need for defecation throughout the distension period . |
| 8 | As a result , it was possible to draw certain conclusions : |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 11 | In such a manner it was possible to disconnect spiritual significance from spatial co-ordinates . |
| 12 | However , because the New Range project is very recent in history , it was possible to interview key participants who were able to elaborate on the minutiae of the planning process . |
| 13 | In the gloaming it was possible to glimpse passing lights identical to those of a carriage in a moving train , altogether it was an eerie happening — crossing a long-abandoned railway in the Vale of Nightshade ! |
| 14 | Thanks to the assistance of the statistics department of Avon and Somerset Police , it was possible to answer this question and provide a fifth and final indicator of success . |
| 15 | Even without hearing the ineffable pitch of his bellow , it was possible to pick this man out in any circle . |
| 16 | Finally , it was possible to withdraw this part of the legislation as the services cover not only a more difficult area , but a quite distinct area of these provisions , without having repercussions on some of the other areas . … |
| 17 | However , having had the benefit of the pilot study , it was possible to identify specific areas that restrict my practice and so limit my effectiveness : |
| 18 | In a study describing ten of these children it was possible to identify three groups of children : |
| 19 | Except that in the capital city of Palestine , a city covered with soldiers , it was possible to have Arab riots in which six Jews were slain and no soldiers around to prevent it . |
| 20 | Therefore it was possible to have supervening unenforceability . |
| 21 | It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia . |
| 22 | The abandonment of the 1956–62 IRA military campaign was highly ambiguous and from outward appearances it was possible to interpret republican actions as either preparation for a renewed onslaught or as a delicate operation to keep the movement together while its direction was fundamentally changed . |
| 23 | The French army before Dreyfus appealed especially as a career in which it was possible to offer patriotic service untainted by compromise with the Republic . |
| 24 | In the shops it was possible to buy imported vodka , but not Polish ; supply could not meet demand . |
| 25 | The idea was that through deconditioning , unblocking , a ventilation of the soul ( ‘ airing your problems ’ ) , it was possible to achieve some kind of frank and freeflowing exchange . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , both Weber and the interactionists did think it was possible to produce causal explanations of human behaviour so long as an understanding of meanings formed part of those explanations . |
| 27 | The largest indigenous groupings occurred further south still , in the wooded steppe and the immense grasslands , where it was possible to herd large numbers of domestic animals , as well as engaging in hunting and primitive forms of agriculture . |
| 28 | Once Maxwell had introduced his displacement current it was possible to bring great coherence to the theory in the form of Maxwell 's equations , which clearly established the inter-relationship between all the electromagnetic field quantities . |
| 29 | He had heard that it was possible to get fresh tap water outside Asano Park . |
| 30 | They were confident that it was possible to make general statements about improvements across a year group , despite individual differences . |