Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] possible [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were possible to compile a complete list of the basic propositions needed to say everything that essentially needs to be said about the world , existential propositions would not be among them . |
| 2 | The implementation of any policy requires the official to exercise discretion — even if it were possible to prepare a rule-book catering for every eventuality it would probably be undesirable — and on each of these occasions he or she is ‘ making ’ policy . |
| 3 | ‘ You are saying that if it were possible to remove a fertilized egg cell from a woman after she had conceived , you could examine it and say what the resulting child would be like ? ’ |
| 4 | Even if it were possible to identify a certain causal agent inside someone 's head we certainly can not take off the top of the skull and mend it ! |
| 5 | However , by combining the FT-SE 100 ( UK shares ) and the FT-SE Eurotrack 100 ( non-UK European shares ) it was possible to create a synthetic index future which covered all of Europe . |
| 6 | However , it was possible to invoke a strong emotional reaction by drawing attention to the obvious fact that the paying patient could get a better and faster service than his National Health counterpart . |
| 7 | But the hierarchy was far from rigid , and it was possible to move a certain distance up and down the ladder ; possible , and common . |
| 8 | This created a business grouping , with a spread of research and technical facilities and sales operations , from which it was possible to forge a rationalized enterprise to attack international markets for a range of products to meet specific requirements in a spread of user industries — acrylics , urethanes , polyesters and a variety of novel surface-coatings and adhesive polymers . |
| 9 | And they were not all billionaires : it was possible to take a ten day cruise to North Africa for £9 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For a man it was possible to join a higher class through success in work . |
| 12 | This implied that it was possible to construct a rational theory based on these objective laws . |
| 13 | Despite the stringent criteria it was possible to identify a matched control for each case . |
| 14 | It was possible to have a good Christmas , but a change had been forced onto us and it was different from what we 'd planned . |
| 15 | I wanted to prove it was possible to have a good time without getting off my face . |
| 16 | Without this provision it was possible to have a share-for-debenture exchange which fell within s127 TCGA 1992 and did not amount to a disposal even though the debenture was an exempt simple debt , rather than a security . |
| 17 | The appellant and an accomplice discovered a method by which it was possible to insert a 10 pence piece into a ticket machine and cause the machine to release a 50 pence coin when the reject button was pressed . |
| 18 | By the end of the 1970s it was possible to find a Soviet historian proclaim that ‘ It is precisely through controversy that the truth emerges . ’ |
| 19 | He thought the goods on display were crude and tasteless ; but sometimes it was possible to find a little gem amongst the mass-produced dross . |
| 20 | As , in comparison with Raji , the RJ2.2.5 mutant exhibits a slower growth rate , it was possible to isolate a revertant cell line in which the ability to express the MHC class II genes is partially restored ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 21 | And of course , in Lord Darlington 's days , when ladies and gentlemen would often visit for many days on end , it was possible to develop a good understanding with visiting colleagues . |
| 22 | This process necessarily involved some redundancies , but it was found that many of the reductions could be achieved through natural wastage , and it was possible to offer a considerable number of employees transfers to the St Helens or Northwich breweries . |
| 23 | There was really only one ground on which the reformers could agree , in fiction as in fact : that cleanliness , above all , was the answer , and that the working class could achieve it in conditions where it was possible to make a genuine home . |
| 24 | The 1929 Parliament was hardly the most glorious in our history , but it was still one in which it was possible to face a major issue on its merits , and to debate with one 's own party without producing mindless noise or mockery from the other side , and by so doing to create an impact upon the general body of the House which improved — and in this instance strikingly improved — the position of the speaker with his own party . |
| 25 | By excavating the existing ground-floor surface at this south end , it was possible to obtain a minimal , although legally acceptable , 2m ( 6–1/2ft ) headroom for non-habitable accommodation below the gallery . |
| 26 | The report accepted that the entry qualifications for the new degree and its standards should be as for other first degrees , but a majority of the group could not accept that it was possible to combine a professional and academic education to honours standard in three years . |