Example sentences of "[be] it possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burden left him contemplating the printed tea cloth as if , were it possible to transmute it to paper , reduce its size and multiply it manifold , he would be a happy man . |
| 2 | These numbers , he pointed out , could have been considerably increased were it possible to assess the numbers working short-time , as occurred in almost every trade during some part of the year . |
| 3 | Were it possible to take a pill after which the most perfect essays flowed from your pen , A level History courses would be completed more rapidly . |
| 4 | Were it possible for a further donation to be agreed at some point during 1993 , I should be most grateful . |
| 5 | ‘ Benedict , ’ she said in a kindlier tone , ‘ even were it possible , I would not — could not — marry you . ’ |
| 6 | Yet is it possible to assert , he wrote , that work done with a lifting of the heart is better than work done with a contracting of the stomach ? |
| 7 | Is it possible still to buy this kind of edging , and if so , can you please supply details of the manufacturer or stocklist ? |
| 8 | In consciousness alone is it possible to confront at least some empirical properties and apprehend them directly , and if consciousness is analysed in terms of some purely non-mental notion this grasp is lost ; just as , in the analysis of thought , if the irreducible generality of thought is analysed away , our ability to think and refer is wished away with it . |
| 9 | IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ? |
| 10 | I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ? |
| 11 | Nor is it possible to say with confidence how much of the increase is due to melting glaciers and how much to thermal expansion . |
| 12 | Is it possible to write about Throwing Muses without confining their strange and terrible beauty , taming it , making it easier to live with ? |
| 13 | All objects , such as trees , stones , and books , whether in their tangible or visible aspects , are such that their ‘ esse [ their mode of existence ] is percipi [ to be perceived ] , nor is it possible they should have any existence , out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 14 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 15 | How is it possible for someone to take my or anybody 's sin upon himself ? |
| 16 | How is it possible for Christ 's death to affect me ? |
| 17 | Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ? |
| 18 | Is it possible to predetermine the types of conduct regarded as indecent ? |
| 19 | Nor is it possible , practical or necessary to recreate precisely those conditions which were only achieved after decades , in the old land meadows , of a specialist system of grazing and mowing supported only by an annual dressing of fold-yard manure . |
| 20 | Is it possible that ‘ secular ’ Protestants have a good deal of respect for evangelical beliefs and values even though they do not share them ? |
| 21 | ‘ Is it possible she may inform them … |
| 22 | Is it possible , Jock ? ’ |
| 23 | Is it possible to know something and yet not know , if you see what I mean ? |
| 24 | She spoke in little more than a whisper : ‘ Is it possible to speak to Comrade Levkovich ? |
| 25 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
| 26 | Is it possible that Major would rather go into opposition — with the dangers that would mean for his continued leadership of the Conservative party — than offer PR and Scottish devolution to the Liberal Democrats ? |
| 27 | Or is it possible that no one ever catalogued these shark-tooth necklaces and ivory ceremonial stools ? |
| 28 | Nor is it possible to imagine the Regent allowing such a hideous series of plates to be made to commemorate his coronation , though , to be fair , even Regency designers might have had trouble making an elegant plate incorporating a photographic portrait of the old reprobate . |
| 29 | Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them , without arousing the hostility of the Warden ? |
| 30 | The key to the underlying tension here is in the line : ‘ Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them without arousing the hostility of the Warden ? ’ |