Example sentences of "it [vb past] possible [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it had been opened , it became possible to test patients ' sera in parallel , thereby convincing other doctors that their tests could be improved . |
| 2 | Certainly if it became possible to detect problems earlier in the pregnancy it would make it easier for mothers to abort their children . |
| 3 | By the late 1920s when it became possible to send cars away to Hendon for a thorough overhaul , they were all in really tired condition . |
| 4 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |
| 5 | It became possible to change trains again at the Welsh mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 6 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |