Example sentences of "it was possible [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within living memory , like mine for instance , it was possible to dial numbers beginning D.O.U … . |
| 2 | In Spanish tradition , I rested when I wanted to on the bolts , 700 feet above ground , and with a little planning it was possible to use jugs for almost every move . |
| 3 | Fortunately , at that time it was possible to combat complaints with the argument that it was necessary to control noise and nuisance . |
| 4 | It appeared that it was possible to detect breaks in the trace similar to those in the present case , so the responsibility rested with Orwell Transport . |
| 5 | Certainly it was possible to purchase shrouds ready-made by , at the latest , the second quarter of the seventeenth century , and Gittings makes mention of the body of Reginald Shrawley , a brother of the Hospital of St John , Canterbury , being buried in ‘ a sheet , shirt and cap ’ , costing , in all , four shillings . |
| 6 | Before long , by clipping a $490.50 do-it-yourself attachment to a normal domestic radio receiver , it was possible to receive print-outs of fax transmissions from local radio stations . |
| 7 | In those areas where it was possible to receive transmissions only 9% of households had a set , and only 8% of our sample watched television daily . |
| 8 | With the development of appropriate piston corers in the late 1940s it was possible to collect columns of sediment 10–30 m in length which contained material that could be dated by radiometric and other means and could also provide environmental information , for example by analysing the frequency of sensitive foraminifera . |
| 9 | So long as criminological theory drew from ahistorical empirical data from the United States and Europe it was possible to construct theories relatively consistent with the available evidence . |
| 10 | While it was unrealistic to expect one practitioner , with such limited practice , to make a significant difference to the workload of the department , it was possible to identify patients whose waiting time had been shortened because they were able to see an ENP . |
| 11 | When all that was available was the free-fall bomb , air-delivered systems were essential to the deterrent , but , once the first land and sea-launched ballistic missiles were to hand , it was possible to have weapons systems that operated from comparatively safe sanctuaries and , in the case of Polaris , from the virtually impenetrable depths of the sea . |
| 12 | NMFS caved in to pressure from the tuna industry , and claimed that it was possible to place observers aboard only 50 per cent of tuna seiners for the season beginning 1 January 1989 . |
| 13 | His associate Auguste Laurent- and both of them were kept on the fringe of the French scientific establishment — was more hopeful : he believed that it was possible to determine formulae and structures , but not inductively as chemists had so far tried to do . |
| 14 | It would seem that in many areas of the city the population adjusted to the new conditions surprisingly well : ‘ thanks to ( the inhabitants ' ) capacity for adapting to a modernized economy and the conditions of life dictated by a transformed city , It was possible to maintain areas which were working class and artisanal . ’ |
| 15 | It became possible to control , if not cure , the symptoms of many psychiatric disorders by the use of drugs , and therefore it was possible to discharge patients after fairly short stays in hospital , continuing their drug therapy , in many cases , as out-patients . |
| 16 | In fourth-century-BC Athens it was possible to buy manuscripts reproduced by hand-copying at relatively low cost , and the scriptoria in which such copying was done — there is a reference in Pliny the Younger to an edition of a thousand copies — remained important through Roman to medieval times . |
| 17 | As there was no building , tickets could not have been issued from there ; it would be interesting to know if it was possible to buy tickets to Stretford Bridge . |
| 18 | Communists were interested in the ILP only because it was possible to secure recruits from what seemed to be a disintegrating party . |
| 19 | Demolition trains became a regular sight on Sundays during 1987 however , and for the first time in over 30 years it was possible to photograph trains without the hindrance of electric stanchions . |
| 20 | Thus it was possible to investigate processes in a small drainage basin before , during and after the effects of building activity and urbanization ( Walling and Gregory , 1970 ) . |
| 21 | By the last decade of the century Emil Fischer was performing elaborate syntheses of carbohydrates and of peptides ; and it was possible to suggest reactions and equilibria which characterized living things . |
| 22 | I discovered spots in places where I did n't think it was possible to get spots . |
| 23 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 24 | I used to believe it was possible to make forecasts — market forecasts in particular — which were likely to be accurate . |
| 25 | Parish nature trails were also mentioned and Miss Bellamy said that it was possible to obtain grants towards producing leaflets . |
| 26 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 27 | It was possible to grow cultures of similar filamentous microorganisms from samples of the hydrocarbon , showing that viable organisms were still present and that bioaccumulation of uranium and other metals could be a relatively modern feature . |