Example sentences of "be [adv] possible [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be perfectly possible to give the rights to children without imposing the duties on them , the one does not entail the other , but we would then still be distinguishing between adults and children as citizens . |
| 2 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 3 | It has been equally possible to operate the procedures in such a way as to leave all the issues open and so reveal very little to the other party about the case he or she would have to meet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Talking about Hamlets , I need another quotation before I begin my travels , for when it comes to research into English I have found that it is rarely possible to predict the end-point of the journey when one starts out , or whether one 's road leads anywhere at all . |
| 6 | However , it is rarely possible to define the size of the largest or smallest particles precisely in a size distribution . |
| 7 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 8 | It is only possible to highlight the basic points and common principles in this chapter . |
| 9 | It is only possible to give a general description above on how to go about it , since every helicopter requires its own particular technique to produce the desired result . |
| 10 | Here it is only possible to give a general flavour of this case-history : |
| 11 | The point being emphasised here is that it is only possible to understand the suddenness of the onset of the downward spiral by keeping in view the production of fixed capital . |
| 12 | Within the space of this article it is only possible to review a very limited range of these beautiful Basslets . |
| 13 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 14 | It is scarcely possible to make a choice between the two dates . |
| 15 | Where , as appears to be the case at Uppark , it is physically possible to make an accurate restoration of a great building , it should be made — and not jeered at as the creation of a theme park of misnamed pastiche . |
| 16 | First of all , it is generally possible to specify a selector and a selectee in a construction in which co-occurrence restrictions are operating . |
| 17 | And , just as an effective fishing lure may be fabricated from cheap , shiny metal , it is generally possible to summarise a commercial movie 's hook in one sentence . |
| 18 | And , just as an effective fishing lure may be fabricated from cheap , shiny metal , it is generally possible to summarise a commercial movie 's hook in one sentence . |
| 19 | The breadth of such bands means that those of different species often overlap , but it is generally possible to select a wavelength at which one compound may be monitored during the course of a reaction , for instance . |
| 20 | It is thus possible to define the functioning relationships as attributes of the intersecting sub-spaces . |
| 21 | It is thus possible to describe the types of information which are most clearly central and peripheral with respect to this definition . |
| 22 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 23 | From the number density of craters on these regions it is thus possible to establish the lunar cratering rate over a considerable period of time as shown in Figure 6.9 . |
| 24 | In a case such as this , involving humans , it is not possible to perform a properly designed cause-to-effect experiment . |
| 25 | However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion . |
| 26 | 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question . |
| 27 | But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community . |
| 28 | Whilst it is not possible to fool the private sector repeatedly , issues of credibility and the extent of discretion are important . |
| 29 | The helical axes have significantly different directions in the two structures , and it is not possible to superimpose the helices . |
| 30 | More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available . |