Example sentences of "[pron] possible [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The soldierly figure , who , confident and elegant in light tweeds , now walked through it was that genuine article for which Canon Wheeler mistakenly thought himself possible to be taken . |
2 | ‘ Do everything possible on your part to live in peace with everybody ’ ( Romans 12:18 ) . |
3 | we 've been through everything erm everything possible on the fact find er on , sorry , planning your future and I think er , you know , you , you 've helped me |
4 | The Soviet Union was doing everything possible to ‘ prevent interference from outside and to neutralise attempts at such interference ’ in socialist countries undergoing dramatic political change in Eastern Europe , notably East Germany . |
5 | ‘ In the circumstances the police need to know everything possible about your brother . |
6 | Successful litigants who are vindictive , or excessively conscientious , or who fear that they will be liable to litigation themselves if they fail to extract everything possible from a claim , might well pursue the individual partners for their assets . |
7 | I would also like to say that the report does mention obligations of other interested er people like er farming groups etc. , and the National Rivers Authority to er do everything possible from stopping the parasite entering the water in the first place . |
8 | These are not recognised by the elder as a social error ( something possible at the level of practical consciousness ) nor as having hazardous consequences ( which perhaps requires verbal consciousness ) . |
9 | It was my grandparents who raised me , who gave me an education , who made it possible through their sacrifices to become what I am today . ’ |
10 | Leaving off with the ‘ imaginative fury ’ might make it possible to ‘ unlock meanings that fictionalising has obscured , distended , or even inverted ’ . |
11 | IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ? |
12 | It is therefore a very powerful dating technique making it possible to date the right archaeological samples ( see p. 144 ) to the year of felling , as well as providing the accurate calendar timescale necessary for radiocarbon calibration . |
13 | Long underground galleries of 3 km or more made it possible to mine under the sea . |
14 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
15 | The focus will eventually be sharpened to make it possible to ‘ see ’ individual large organic molecules . |
16 | Calling Prolog , ‘ the applications development language of the future , ’ the initiative stresses its memory management facility and its compiler technology which makes it possible to dynamically generate classes at run-time without having defined them explicitly . |
17 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |
18 | At this time the nurse may find it possible to gauge whether the patient is anxious and if so what the source(s) of this anxiety may be . |
19 | The introduction of bell-hanging in the late eighteenth century made it possible to station servants quite out of earshot , behind the green baize door . |
20 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
21 | I mean , is it possible to , to have a holy , healthy attitude to , to sex ? |
22 | Although it would break the link between advanced and non-advanced further education , it would make it possible to ‘ develop a single coherent function for higher education outside the universities ’ . |
23 | But the question I was asked was — is it possible to just varnish — or is any special treatment necessary after stripping ? |
24 | I ca n't help feeling that such a position , though logically sound , would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied , and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin , Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist . |
25 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
26 | It consists of a long gentle curve of slightly shelving sand which often makes it possible to be only waist deep in warm , crystal clear water several hundred yards out . |
27 | That 'll do , two points to mother Ann 's question Is it possible to re to traverse under the North Pole in mid-winter ? |
28 | The expansion of the study of family history in recent years , and the coming together of historical and sociological concerns in this field in particular , makes it possible at least to attempt answers to these questions in a way that would not have been possible even ten years ago , for lack of appropriate sources of evidence . |
29 | Perhaps the most important achievement of Nicholas 's reign was the codification of the laws : the publication of an authoritative digest in 1835 made it possible at least to begin to impose standard procedures on the bureaucracy . |
30 | To the employers , the entry of women made it possible at last to nibble away at — or do away with — such " restrictive practices " . |