Example sentences of "[adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This together with the increased computational power available , at greatly reduced cost , has made it both technically and economically possible to distribute specialized computing facilities throughout a factory ( or group ) on a network . |
| 2 | As part of this study , it was additionally possible to investigate ( a ) a variety of domain-specific dictionaries and compare their performance with the general dictionary , and ( b ) the extent to which collocations compiled from one domain could contribute to the recognition of text from another . |
| 3 | It is rarely possible to explain this as a matter of mere incompetent glossing . |
| 4 | Talking about Hamlets , I need another quotation before I begin my travels , for when it comes to research into English I have found that it is rarely possible to predict the end-point of the journey when one starts out , or whether one 's road leads anywhere at all . |
| 5 | Cancellation is the least favoured option : once a project is cut out of the Long-Term Costing , it is rarely possible to argue it back in again . |
| 6 | However , it is rarely possible to define the size of the largest or smallest particles precisely in a size distribution . |
| 7 | It 's rarely possible to do this without damaging the glass , so have a new piece ready . |
| 8 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 9 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 10 | Lifetable analysis — In a study of this kind , it is rarely possible to follow up every patient until they either relapse or successfully complete the trial . |
| 11 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 12 | By Ottoman reckoning Molla Fenari would have been twenty in Safar 770 , and it is perhaps possible to suppose that he could have returned from Egypt in time to be appointed at the end of the year . |
| 13 | It is perhaps possible to recognize traces of the version of Nicolas of Damascus in the account of Josephus in Bellum Judaicum 1 if we compare it with the much more elaborate story told by Josephus in his Antiquitates Judaicae . |
| 14 | It 's it 's not necessarily possible to generate jobs from with within its own boundaries . |
| 15 | Please note that the studio is also used as a theatre , bistro and rehearsal space , so it is often only possible to see exhibitions after 6pm . |
| 16 | To our surprise it was only possible to predict in half the patients the point at which they would block their coronary artery . |
| 17 | It is only possible to lay down general rules , perhaps the most important of which is that grass , and more especially clover , must always be sown early enough in the growing season to have become fairly established before the continuous wet conditions of winter set in . |
| 18 | Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative . |
| 19 | In the rundown areas of inner cities which are unattractive to developers and other entrepreneurs it will often be only possible to stimulate business activity by an injection of public funds . |
| 20 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 21 | One of the problems with not getting killed climbing while still young is that you reach such a great age that your standard falls mercilessly , and it is only possible to relive great exploits by reading about yourself in guidebooks . |
| 22 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 23 | To take a specific example , from the same book SIMULATIONS , It is not only possible to analyse Disneyland as a digest of the American way of life but such an ideological analysis conceals a further order of simulations : " Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the " real " country , all of " real " America , which IS Disneyland … |
| 24 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 25 | It is only possible to highlight the basic points and common principles in this chapter . |
| 26 | Reviews of exhibiting societies ' shows have constantly presented difficulties to critics , as it is only possible to give brief comments on some of the artists ' work ; how could it be otherwise when an exhibiting society shows several thousand works ? |
| 27 | It is only possible to give a general description above on how to go about it , since every helicopter requires its own particular technique to produce the desired result . |
| 28 | Here it is only possible to give a general flavour of this case-history : |
| 29 | The point being emphasised here is that it is only possible to understand the suddenness of the onset of the downward spiral by keeping in view the production of fixed capital . |
| 30 | At this high level , it was only possible to make a broad assessment of these requirements , and further ideas were developed as the study progressed to lower levels of detail . |