Example sentences of "possible [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although the excavations are not yet wholly complete , many hectares of the town have now been revealed to the light of day , and it is now possible to stroll along the abandoned streets once more with the remains of shops , houses and villas on either side .
2 However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge .
3 I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment .
4 Then , once the owner realizes that the building is of value , it may be possible to agree on a constructive course of action .
5 The first is whether it is possible to agree upon a generic curriculum , based on a set of headings or topics , which may be treated quite differently by those in different disciplines ( e.g. typographers , computer scientists ) .
6 It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit .
7 According to him , it was possible to go to the fair and be back in Roscommon before dark .
8 But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions .
9 By catching the Chamden-London Inter-City train it is possible to go from the Second Division to the Third and back again on this unequalled trip .
10 Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level .
11 Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court or transferred in contravention of the APO they are not rendered invalid and it is not possible to appeal against a final order on this basis alone ( APO , art 21 ) .
12 It is also possible to appeal against an interim order under s94(1) ( see Chapter 7 ) or apply for discharge under s39 as discussed at 8 below .
13 That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security .
14 Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix .
15 She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation .
16 It is possible to see in the parallel gulf between detailed legal control over lending to the needy , and very little control over other credit , the survival of the very long-standing and deep-rooted mistrust of usury ( alongside social concern about the way that high rates of interest could turn poverty into destitution ) .
17 There are solutions of Einstein 's general theory of relativity in which it is possible to fall into a black hole and come out of a white hole .
18 He no longer believed that it was possible to struggle against the cruel forces of capitalist wealth .
19 Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented .
20 It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment .
21 It is not possible to come to a clean and simple judgement .
22 Even today it is possible to come across a secondary school without any library , in the sense of a collection housed in a room set aside entirely for that purpose ; some of these libraryless schools are in the private sector , and eager parents pay heavily for the " privilege " .
23 The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law .
24 Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme .
25 They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical .
26 And the system of Standing Cabinet Committees , which was developed in the War Cabinet days , now makes it possible to work with a smaller Cabinet , on the lines of your War Cabinet and ‘ Caretaker ’ Cabinet , 49 without impairing the principle of collective responsibility .
27 In addition to this , he thought it might be possible to work with a sympathetic artist in a good studio , and perhaps take lessons at an academy .
28 It is also vital to keep all abrasives dust-free , and if possible to work in a dust-free environment .
29 Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 .
30 It is only after the Glorious Revolution — with the emergence of regular sessions of Parliament , when much of the ordinary business of government ( as opposed to just crisis situations ) came to be conducted along party lines , when Parliamentary divisions over a range of issues allow us to see the consistency of party allegiance amongst MPs , and when the parties came to develop fairly sophisticated organisational structures for the pursuit of their political goals — that it is possible to talk of a two-party system .
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