Example sentences of "possible and [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope that by employing non-discriminatory usage in this book we have shown that it is possible and easy to adopt another style . |
| 2 | The decisive shift towards the Tories seems to have come once Major began to concede that a hung parliament was possible and that to want this would lead to coalition , weak government , and deals in back rooms . |
| 3 | His belief that compromise might be possible and necessary had few followers in the ruling United National Party ( UNP ) . |
| 4 | Conduct sufficient for a dissolution This sweeping provision is nearly always found in agreements although if the expulsion powers have been properly drafted it should always be possible and preferable to invoke some more specific ground . |
| 5 | The diagram uses only an eight point compass : it is possible and preferable to construct such a diagram with finer divisions . |
| 6 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |