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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Here the bargaining stage has given way to a period of time when you feel it is just not possible to cope with the situation and the future looks bleak .
2 erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that
3 It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck .
4 If none is available , it may be possible to arrange for a specialist physiotherapist to visit the hospital department to see the patient and suggest appropriate treatment lines to the physiotherapist there .
5 I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware .
6 With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) .
7 If ever it were possible to agree upon a scheme of regional government , then there might be a basis for regional representation , but attempts at this have so far failed .
8 This does not automatically mean that the provision will be made , but it does make it possible to plan in the light of solid knowledge rather than guesswork .
9 It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece .
10 It is perfectly possible to go through a University career , satisfy the examiners , graduate in the splendour of the Great Hall , and leave as a Bristol graduate without ever once having thought how the whole thing has been organised .
11 While it remained possible to cling to a sense of the " vital ambitions " of the discipline , " human and institutional frailties " were seen as likely to inhibit the achievement of such ambitions .
12 There was an orderly system of collection , monitored by the Christian bishops , and it was possible to appeal to the sultan 's court in cases of abuse .
13 It is possible to appeal against a decision to transfer proceedings back to the family proceedings court ( The Children ( Allocation of Proceedings ) ( Appeals ) Order 1991 ( SI No 1801 , art 2 ) ) .
14 It is possible to appeal against the amount of damages awarded by the trial judge and here the Court of Appeal will amend the amount if the trial judge has applied an incorrect principle of law or has awarded a sum which is clearly inconsistent with awards in comparable cases .
15 Merchant bank Where the transaction is a private one and does not involve the issue of securities it may be possible to proceed without a merchant bank , although , under the FSA , an authorised person will be needed to approve the offer document .
16 It is also possible to continue as a graduate without eh thought occurring .
17 Mr Hunt said the defence will be visiting her today ‘ to see if it 's possible to continue with the trial , whether she is able to continue attending or not ’ .
18 Mr Hunt said the defence would be visiting her today ‘ to see if it 's possible to continue with the trial , whether she is able to continue attending or not ’ .
19 It is possible to include in the wording of the Deed that the covenant will cease if certain conditions occur — for example , if you become unemployed or your income falls below a certain level .
20 ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . )
21 It would be possible to search through the file until the record was located , but this technique , and the more refined methods available for searching sequential files in which there is no direct relationship between the record key and its storage location , are too slow for the needs of most enquiry systems .
22 Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper .
23 Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site .
24 It is possible to see in a catalogue of this sort the origins of the very exact nomenclature found in many of Mary Leapor 's landscape descriptions ( see chapter three below ) .
25 It is certainly possible to see in the charter deeds of the denomination ( which is what the Book of Common Prayer seems to be for many ) this vision to reach those outside the church .
26 As well as making it possible to see in the dark , thermal imagers penetrate mist , smoke and the lighter fogs .
27 As Wassen , the next village after Gurtnellen , is approached , it is possible to see from the road the manner in which the railway line ( now running on the opposite side of the valley from both roads ) climbs the steep " steps " in the valley floor which occasion waterfalls .
28 By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell .
29 Because of popular music 's ubiquitousness and vast scale of production , it has been possible to establish in the collective mind a set of conventional musical ‘ colours ’ — ‘ Spanish ’ , ‘ pastoral ’ , ‘ cowboy ’ , ‘ blue ’ , ‘ hip pie ’ , ‘ punk ’ , and so on — and arrangers and producers can simply lift the technical devices needed for these ready-made veneers off the shelf when needed .
30 talk you know there was the Notts County Council on the erm gully problems that we get in , is it possible to write to the County Council to ask them what sort of maintenance programme they 're going to give us now , as regards this cos I 've not seen this wagon going round so frequently as it used to .
  Next page