Example sentences of "therefore possible [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ According to one dogma , world history is in some sense a coherent whole , and it is therefore possible to affirm that certain events have a unique significance for the entire story .
2 As suggested by Szekeres ( 1972 ) , it is therefore possible to use these as coordinates in region IV , although care has to be taken at the boundaries and it is not possible to extend these coordinates into the prior regions II and III .
3 It was therefore possible to argue that you did not want it even if you could have it . ’
4 It is therefore possible to argue that an analogy with child protection is misleading , since we do not assume that children should look after themselves .
5 It is not therefore possible to publish a programme for the Academic Link scheme .
6 It is therefore possible to say that any economic policy is an incomes policy , and in particular that any economic policy designed to prevent or reduce the rate of inflation is an incomes policy .
7 It is therefore possible to say that a standard Afghan Belouch , for example , will normally be comparable in price to a Yagcibedir , and both will usually be between a third and half the cost of a Russian Bokhara or Beshir .
8 Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization .
9 It was therefore possible to swear allegiance to William and Mary as de facto rulers , whilst still recognising James II as King de jure .
10 It is therefore possible to operationalise Mosca 's definition and to provide counterfactuals in a way which was not possible with Pareto .
11 It is therefore possible to see Powell as making a serious empirical and theoretical contribution towards the development of a sociology of character .
12 It is therefore possible to see movements in interest rates in the money markets as a whole in advance of changes led by the Bank of England .
13 It is therefore possible to take completely objective measures of performance such as number of errors , reaction time , or number of correctly recalled propositions .
14 For my purposes here it is therefore possible to treat political sociology and modern political science together .
15 With this approach it is therefore possible to construct a library of programs covering most common , but simple design problems handled within the design office .
16 Ottar , for example , seems not to have composed his Knútsdrápa until after 1025 , at least ten years later than the campaigns of 1015 – 16 which it largely describes , and it is therefore possible to query details not confirmed by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle .
17 It is therefore possible to organise knowledge into sets of propositions which , because they have distinctive foci or fields of application , may be identified as separate subjects or disciplines .
18 It is therefore possible to measure around an armhole curve and compare the measurement with that of the sleeve head .
19 One patient showed 100% aperistalsis both before and after treatment , and it was not therefore possible to measure amplitude , duration , or velocity of propagation in this patient .
20 Using the shear-lag theory we have ( Equation 4.23 ) the tensile stress in the proposed fibril given by It is therefore possible to make estimates of the distribution of stress using this theory although it is not justifiable to place too much weight on such estimates .
21 It is therefore possible to calculate how much brain a mammal should have for its size and , by taking the ratio between the actual and the expected brain size , obtain a measure of how much ‘ extra ’ brain a species possesses .
22 It is therefore possible to calculate the quadrupole moment of this system and to infer its output of gravitational radiation .
23 It is therefore possible to unwind the program that many times , obtaining a finite syntactic approximation which exhibits the same behaviour .
24 It is therefore possible to have a battery without an assault ( e.g. where D strikes V from behind ) , as well as an assault without a battery ( e.g. where D threatens to strike V but is prevented from doing so ) , but most cases involve both .
25 It is therefore possible to have real horizontal movement without disturbing the harmonic atmosphere .
26 Different types of library have different needs , and it is not therefore possible to suggest any one system as a model .
27 It is therefore possible to imagine two opposite reactions if it were to be shown conclusively that the creature was a whale .
28 Is it therefore possible to separate out those aspects of ‘ Motherese ’ which make a positive contribution to language learning from those which are merely incidental and possibly those which are actually detrimental ?
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