Example sentences of "possible to find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus possible to find cases where a final plosive becomes a fricative or nasal ( e.g. ‘ that side ’ , ‘ good night ’ ) , but most unlikely that a final fricative or nasal would become a plosive . |
| 2 | West Belfast should be treated as a special case and a uniform grant at the Premium 3 level given for all trainees ; alternative solutions must be found where it is simply not possible to find employers to take second year trainees ; cover should be given to management committees to protect them from personal liability in the event of insolvency . |
| 3 | Allison described unemployment as ‘ the problem of the most pressing importance ’ , and declared that the Labour Party had a duty to ‘ do all that is humanly possible to find work locally for our unemployed fellow citizens ’ ( Election leaflet 1921 ) . |
| 4 | It is in fact possible to find passages in Dame Sirith which may again recognize , and irreverently exploit , a knowledge that such was a possible presentation of this tale . |
| 5 | As with quoted speech ( see b.2 and b.3 ) , it is possible to find instances of reported speech where the necessary clues to the identity of the speaker are found only in preceding text . |
| 6 | In other words , we can not show a recurrent semantic contrast , although it is , of course , possible to find sentences where the substitution of forms can be made without a recurrence of the semantic contrast : |
| 7 | It is also possible to find support for this reading by considering Anderson 's interruptions of other speakers . |
| 8 | For what it is worth , I think he may be right because it is possible to find objects in space from remembered information . |
| 9 | This may be too strong ; it is possible to state " general rules " for the interpretation of some common provisions , but those rules are only rebuttable presumptions and it is generally possible to find authorities to support a different interpretation . |
| 10 | It may well be possible to find ways of dealing with the demands of the various themes of these acts by yet greater dependence upon the hierarchical/control model — indeed it almost certainly will be — but at what level of success in terms of the educational needs of the pupils and at what cost to the motivation of staff ? |
| 11 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it is still possible to find L less than P , as in our example . |
| 13 | As it happens , it is possible to find contexts which isolate the two readings , and when these are yoked together , zeugma results . |
| 14 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 15 | It is possible to store such an amazing amount of information , but this has to be carefully organised on the disk to make it possible to find files easily . |
| 16 | There , we had been assured , it would be possible to find transport to Cocoyo and the walk in . |