Example sentences of "be possible [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In isolated word recognition only substitution errors of the meet/meat kind are possible since the beginning , ending , and duration of the word are known .
2 Longer addressing times are possible because the display need not be refreshed at TV frequencies while it is read on the screen .
3 A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there .
4 This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient .
5 This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy .
6 A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible .
7 It also argues that long-term environmental and economic sustainability may not be possible unless the government takes responsibility for detailed assessments of the flora and fauna of native forests , and for the effective monitoring of logging operations .
8 This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court .
9 The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances .
10 Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule .
11 Realistically , this would be possible if the wife were on a different narrative " level " to the Miller 's Tale , i.e. a character within the framing narrative rather than within one of the tales .
12 A second means of access would be possible if the cottage were gutted .
13 And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat .
14 This would be possible if the lease provided for the appointment of " an independent person " .
15 This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment .
16 It is thought that the platelet is necessary for the maintenance of normal vascular integrity in that patients with thrombocytopaenia show a generalised haemorrhagic tendency and bruising when the platelet count falls below about 5 × 10 9 /1 , spontaneous bruising and more severe bleeding being possible as the platelet count falls below 20 × 10 9 /1 .
17 This is possible because the ability of even very young children to engage in reflective thought has now been recognized in many educational circles ( see Chapters 5 and 7 for discussion of this ) .
18 This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study .
19 Rescue of the animal is possible if the stem cells are replaced .
20 An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so .
21 The second common mistake ( not made in this case ) is to impose a sentence for an either way offence for which the offender has been committed under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.S6 a sentence in excess of six months ' imprisonment , which is possible if the offender is committed for the same offence under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 .
22 Although it is possible when a program is used for individual tuition for it to collect data on pupil performance , this is only one mode of diagnostics .
23 A higher quality of timely competitor intelligence is possible when the corporation 's intelligence resources are identified and centrally co-ordinated .
24 If repeated showing is desired , this is possible until the idea is fully understood .
25 Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons .
26 This is possible where a target 's management are bargaining on behalf of their shareholders .
27 Full control is possible as the work is brought into contact with the cutter
28 The idea of producing quality documents from a 24-pin dot matrix printer may seem strange but it is possible providing the user does n't try to emulate the capabilities of a more expensive systems .
29 The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself .
30 Inside the Iguanodon men of science were entertained to dinner ; this was possible because the beast had been made horizontal .
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