Example sentences of "[adv] be possible " in BNC.

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1 It would obviously be possible to provide some kind of assistance here .
2 While clearly not capable of resourcing an anti-racist perspective on women 's poverty , it may none the less be possible to provide some insights into experiences which Black and white mothers share .
3 This would only be possible if she had intensive 24-hour cover : if she could employ carers both night and day who could be flexible enough to adapt to her needs rather than vice versa .
4 It is our view that any political development will only be possible once communal politics is broken down .
5 We believe a real revitalisation of European economies will only be possible with a noticeable lowering of interest rates in Germany . ’
6 This will only be possible if we encourage a climate of investment , enterprise and partnership .
7 No canal crossing the constantly changing contours of the English Midlands ever had enough water , so a significant increase in traffic would only be possible if existing supplies were conserved and more supplies developed .
8 However , new colonists in Gran Pajonal are employing a fallow period of only 7 years , which is likely to cause long-term nutrient depletion so that maintenance of crop productivity will only be possible with the addition of artificial fertilisers .
9 Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule .
10 After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches .
11 This will only be possible if waste pipes run parallel to the floorboard joists , and at right angles to the floorboards .
12 During the course of 1931–2 , however , the Basque Nationalists yielded to pragmatism ; appreciating that autonomy would only be possible if acceptable to those wielding power in Madrid , they effectively surrendered their more extreme goals , abandoned their right-wing allies , and moved closer to the Republicans and Socialists .
13 Therefore , rather than attempting to generate theories which hold good for all countries , generalisations may only be possible if ‘ types ’ can be established .
14 Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them .
15 It would only be possible to say this if assertion ( b ) were known to be true , and that all those who never consulted analysts and therapists were ‘ normal ’ .
16 It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics .
17 Revocation of an objective regime would only be possible with the consent of all parties which had consented to the regime and ‘ have substantial interest in its functioning ’ .
18 The mathematicians tell us that this would only be possible if the operators x and p were to commute .
19 If the site is too narrow , development may only be possible on one side of an access road and equally , where the site is marginally wider than 70 metres , the backland will be undeveloped and therefore relatively uneconomic .
20 In a less liberal setting , communication may only be possible through a wired pane of glass with an air inlet at the bottom of the pane .
21 Then he said , " The Boxing and Coxing on the ships would only be possible for someone who controlled a shipping line .
22 In a general index it may only be possible to distinguish between different meanings of the one homograph by using scope notes or qualifying terms wherever the term arises , and thus in some way replace the context that is normally absent in respect of index terms .
23 The answer to that will depend on their own performance , because persuading the other investors to part with a further 12 per cent of their equity will only be possible if they are going to get a good return on it .
24 It would only be possible if I did n't love you , but I do . ’
25 In particular , the evaluation of model derivatives and the use of more than one model simultaneously would only be possible for large systems within such a framework .
26 — The conversion of bank notes and coin denominated in Mark of the GDR shall only be possible for persons or agencies domiciled in the GDR via accounts with financial institutions in the GDR into which the cash amounts to be converted may be paid .
27 Initially the currencies would coexist , but according to a radio report of May 22 , it would in future only be possible to pay in food shops with rubels , since " their basic function is to protect the internal market " .
28 In practice , many terms will be innominate terms , in which case it will only be possible to determine whether breach of the term allows a party to repudiate the contract in the light of the actual facts of the breach .
29 A rational and constructive debate on animal research will only be possible if animal rights groups such as BUAV stop using misleading propaganda .
30 There are so many suffixes that it will only be possible here to examine a small proportion of them ; we will concentrate on those which are common and productive ( that is , are applied to a considerable number of stems and could be applied to more to make new English words ) .
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