Example sentences of "[is] possible [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 2 | Some people do n't believe that it 's possible to tan in any other way , but provided you are sensible and use quality sunscreens , you can go brown more safely . |
| 3 | These cheeses are situated together , and it 's possible to move from one cheese to another . |
| 4 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 5 | Also between Hindscarth and Ronsingon , it is possible to descend from any point along this ridge to the Buttermere valley . |
| 6 | As a result , it is possible to see in such groups the collective responses normally associated with shopfloor workers . |
| 7 | Reagan absorbed many other valuable lessons from his experience as governor of California and it is possible to see in this period the evolution of a style of executive leadership that he was to take with him to the White House . |
| 8 | It is possible to see in some of his work that rain is imminent as a warm front spreads into the landscape from the Irish Sea . |
| 9 | It is possible to see from these studies that differences between deaf people and hearing people are small when the language differences are taken into account . |
| 10 | It is possible to argue against this view : in Chapters 10 and 11 , word stress was presented as something quite independent of intonation , and subsequently ( p. 157 ) it was said that ‘ intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit ’ . |
| 11 | It is possible to cope with one of these legs being shaky and under pressure but not two at the same time . |
| 12 | For example we can use it to show that it is possible to pivot from any primal feasible tableau ( T1 ) corresponding to a set of constraints to any other primal feasible tableau ( T2 ) for these constraints , maintaining primal feasibility . |
| 13 | In Section 6.3 , we showed that it is possible to pivot from any BFS to any other BFS through a sequence of BFSs . |
| 14 | More significantly , it is possible to point to certain paradoxical elements in the apparent development of a democratic family structure . |
| 15 | Although overall this view is still widely held , it is possible to point to several cases of reversal when , for example , agriculturalists reverted to hunting and gathering . |
| 16 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 17 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |
| 18 | And it is possible to predict with fair accuracy the behaviour of the site ( volcanoes and earthquakes permitting ) over billions of years . |
| 19 | A ‘ denial of female sexuality ’ is often seen as the most characteristic manifestation of Victorian prudery and hypocrisy , and indeed it is possible to detect in many of the treatises from the mid-nineteenth century an attempt to challenge its reality . |
| 20 | With the benefit of fifteen years ’ experience and from the security of a university in Britain , it is possible to pronounce with considerable confidence upon what should have happened ; to comment owlishly on how untidy and illogical were the processes employed , how more information should have been spelt out with more precision , how more evaluation should have been undertaken sooner , how unreal were our expectations in terms of how quickly and how evenly changes can effectively take place . |
| 21 | In keeping with the grand design , the sewers designed by Haussmann and his great engineer Belgrand were so magnificent that to this day they form part of the tourist 's Paris , for it is possible to cruise through these huge well-lighted caverns in a boat . |
| 22 | Contrary to approaches influenced by Lacan , there seems little reason to suppose that the unconscious is structured largely in relation to language or some other grammatical form , since in the intellectual representation of the external world it is possible to account for symbolic processes through a variety of other cognitive mechanisms ( e.g. Sperber 1975 ; 1979 ) . |
| 23 | It is possible to sympathize with these arguments , but there are more fundamental criticisms of key settlement policies . |
| 24 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 25 | Crime does not stop at county borders when it is possible to drive through three counties in an hour . |
| 26 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 27 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 28 | Armour-plated like giant turtles , humped and unruly and gashed with ferocious battle scars , yet in other places so biscuit-thin that it is possible to look at distant landscapes or clouds through the pierced form of a perforation in the ridge ( rather like one of Henry Moore 's outdoor sculptures ) . |
| 29 | These two groups of animals are quite unrelated , but both still have living representatives in the oceans , and so it is possible to look at living animals to help with the interpretation of fossil examples . |
| 30 | As far as politics is concerned , it is possible to look at those who are deliberately attempting to construct their own ideological cameras . |