Example sentences of "was possible [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 2 | To get the specimen from overseas to the artist was the normal practice , but sometimes it was possible to take the artist , or to send him , to the animals . |
| 3 | Hinged along its top edge , it was possible to open the gun so that a film loop could be inserted round its profile . |
| 4 | By forming an organisation with another man , it was possible to move the stone with the combined efforts of the two men together . |
| 5 | It always surprised him a little that it was possible to fix the attention on the room itself , its furniture and objects , even before the bodies had been packaged and taken away , as if in their fixed and silent decrepitude they had for a moment become part of the room 's artefacts , as significant as any other physical clue , no more and no less . |
| 6 | But the lust for escape was a powerful one and the fact that escape was possible made the idea a great stimulus whether you got away or not . |
| 7 | Sometimes bad things hung on so it was possible to remember an outing as the day the car broke down rather than the day there was a barbecue on the beach and the party went on until the tide came in . |
| 8 | It was possible to view the death of others in a detached way , even — if one were honest — to take pleasure in it . |
| 9 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 10 | By using salvaged slates , it was possible to revise the roof of the garage to a ‘ cat-slide ’ form projecting out and down from the eaves of the main rear roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 11 | In so far as it was possible to control the number of children they had , a significant number of Victorian parents were beginning to do so — if only because of the simple fact that the fewer sons and daughters there were , the more could be done to give each of them a good start in life . |
| 12 | Because a detailed record of economic activity statuses was collected by the After Redundancy study , it was possible to compare the proportion of time spent by each person since being made redundant in different forms of employment status . |
| 13 | Although acknowledging that it was possible to analyse the curriculum in a variety of ways , the White Paper suggested that this was best done through subjects , particularly at secondary level . |
| 14 | The purpose of the dance panel was to assess applications for degrees in dance , and as Brinson emphasizes , 1975–76 was still a period when it was possible to envisage the development of subjects and the availability of resources . |
| 15 | Erm , so er , there must have been a situation where he was discovered , that it was possible to split the atom , basically . |
| 16 | So , it was possible to replace the promoter for the growth hormone gene with the promoter for a protein which binds metal ions in the blood : this promoter is activated when traces of metal are present . |
| 17 | Yet , without altering the basic components of the mix , it was possible to detect a shift in the nuances . |
| 18 | From half an hour after training , to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards , it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV — a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis . |
| 19 | She knew it was possible to wish the pain way , but then where would it go ? |
| 20 | Coyle showed that it was possible to improve the speed of an ISAM file by more than four times by using the optimization options available in IBM 's software . |
| 21 | If a misjudgment could offend , equally it was possible to gratify a voter by an offer , even when that offer was refused . |
| 22 | Italy also managed to occupy British Somaliland , in East Africa , but lost battles in the western desert areas of Egypt , in February 1941 ; also in East Africa , before the end of 1941 , where it was possible to re-establish the Emperor of Ethiopia . |
| 23 | He assured Field that it was possible to lay a cable on the ocean floor . |
| 24 | I further discovered , with cautious movements of my foot , that it was possible to extend the mark from just above his knee almost to his ankle , leaving an interesting streak on the trouser leg . |
| 25 | We were fortunate in having one car parked at Cemmaes , so it was possible to extend the walk by a couple of miles and finish it there , just before the daylight went . |
| 26 | These were the days when it was possible to have a lease for life . |
| 27 | In the height of the season it was invaded by holidaymakers , but later on it was possible to have the area to oneself . |
| 28 | ‘ Bun voyage , ’ she called aloud to him , and it was possible to discern a dance of relieved joy in her step as she walked back to the limousine . |
| 29 | Stuart had been more aware of their existence this year , walking up to lectures at the university , going through the Grassmarket or the gardens , seeing drab figures squatting on the stone steps , or standing outside the hotel in the evening by the vents from the kitchen where the steam formed vapour clouds and it was possible to inhale the smell of food with the intensity of a drug . |
| 30 | In the fifties it was very run-down and it was possible to buy the glory of a house with a painted ceiling and good stucco if you were prepared to do without the luxury of heating and hot water . |