Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] possible [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |
| 2 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 3 | A crowd then assembled and threw pepper at the police , causing such a commotion that it was only possible to get the one-legged prisoner to the police station with the assistance of twelve constables . |
| 4 | It was thus possible to balance the attraction of the matter with the repulsion of the cosmological term . |
| 5 | Let us suppose that it was somehow possible to banish the feelings which give rise to such ugly behaviour in human beings . |
| 6 | For cartons of Kent cigarettes and a few videos , it was always possible to circumvent the regulations limiting abortion to the victims of rape or incest , or life-threatening complications . |
| 7 | It was hardly possible to understand the effects of removing the ovaries until ovarian hormones had been purified and shown to produce effects comparable to those seen at puberty . |
| 8 | I reminded her that , since she would be doing this under hypnosis , it was still possible to use the detachment technique if I thought she was becoming distressed in any way . |
| 9 | And , of course , it was still possible to open the windows … |
| 10 | So it was still possible to keep the rendezvous with Fedorov . |
| 11 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 12 | In most of the tests it was also possible to compare the results with those in age and sex matched healthy volunteers with and without H pylori . |
| 13 | It was also possible to classify the States of Europe according to their ability to wage war , whether on their own or with the help of subsidies and other encouragements from their more powerful neighbours . |
| 14 | It was also possible to judge the viability of a British PWR by looking at the experience of the United States . |
| 15 | It was also possible to investigate the departure of the planets from Kepler 's laws due to the finite mass of the sun , interplanetary forces , etc . |
| 16 | Through this , it was also possible to calculate the the time taken for the simple reaction time involved in the relay of messages between the brain and the hand . |
| 17 | However , fundamental changes were not inevitable , as it was quite possible to maintain the service management role for the foreseeable future , with Colleges obtaining and utilising resources in the manner previously prescribed and implemented . |
| 18 | It was then possible to contribute the findings to the CONARLS study , and to consider a revision of the Scottish Fiction Reserve in the near future . |
| 19 | Handling by kidney squeeze overcame any further resistance so that it was then possible to secure the model in the Pavlov stock . |
| 20 | It was almost possible to smell the misery and tension in her . |
| 21 | This must have meant that it was never possible to evaluate the lift in terms of its cost efficiency and that there was a built-in disincentive to spend money on improvement , repair or indeed on all but minimal maintenance . |