Example sentences of "[vb past] it possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 2 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 3 | Through the AC30 I found it possible to find some pretty convincing old Phantom sounds , ramming home to me the fact that if you can put up with the tuning hassles , a 12-string is still one of the best guitars to use for rhythm . |
| 4 | Joint stock companies found it possible to grow larger by issuing new shares to increase their capital , and mergers and takeovers saw the average size of firms grow . |
| 5 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 6 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 7 | One by one they came , and we on board Viking found it possible to grab their long shaggy fleeces and hoist them over the gunwale . |
| 8 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 9 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 10 | Seated beneath a standard lamp , glass in hand , impressionist art on the wall and thick floor-length curtains closed against the night , he found it possible to believe he was almost anywhere but where he really was . |
| 11 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 12 | I was deeply disappointed that neither the hon. Member for Tooting , in a 40-minute speech , nor the hon. Member for Hammersmith , except in an intervention , found it possible to acknowledge the contribution made by housing associations . |
| 13 | However , as he found it possible to reformulate it in terms of his own engineering type of mathematics ( which is not ) , he did not challenge it . |
| 14 | When news of the wonderful changes brought about in Kidderminster at this time spread , it won the approval of Anabaptists and Independents who hardly believed it possible that such a work of God could take place through the ministry of a parish church . |
| 15 | More than that , he believed it possible that he , as much as Luke Eliot , would value Shildon 's research into the dead man 's background . |
| 16 | Mr Reynolds believed it possible that inter-party talks on Northern Ireland could resume again , even before May 's local government elections . |
| 17 | I 've not only never felt like this before , I never imagined it possible . |
| 18 | He thought it possible that he would and probable that he would not . |
| 19 | Edward VII thought it possible that his son might be the last British king , and during the reign of George V , Harold Nicolson reckoned that five emperors , eight kings and eighteen minor dynasties had come to an end . |
| 20 | We thought it possible that we might get an auto-immune reaction otherwise — similar to that which occurs when a patient rejects a heart or kidney transplant . |
| 21 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |
| 22 | When substantially into this period , the plan was mooted that TP280 also , with effort , might make the show , few in the Spitfire fraternity thought it possible . |
| 23 | As he spoke he began to take a backward step , and for an instant Gentle 's dizzied brain almost thought it possible the man would retreat into nothingness ; be proved spirit rather than substance . |
| 24 | A concern with theological questions has sometimes prompted new lines of scientific inquiry , as when Richard Bentley ( 1662–1742 ) , wishing to use the latest science to defend his Christian theism , asked Newton whether he thought it possible that the frame of the world could have been produced , from a uniform distribution of matter , by mechanical principles alone . |
| 25 | I thought it possible that directional sightings could be made from the centre of the tower through the crenellations and was intrigued to find that one of them had disappeared since my previous visit . |
| 26 | Seven months before their 1990 wedding , she still thought it possible she would marry Chris . |
| 27 | Under these circumstances , I thought it possible to work with him " . |
| 28 | When I first learned that the line was bad , I thought it possible — likely , even — that the caller was n't Kemp at all . |
| 29 | He said he thought it possible that , within five years , one French house in a hundred would be equipped with solar power , compared with one in a thousand today . |
| 30 | Also , in 1974 , an adoption Act made it possible for couples of mixed denominational or religious origin to adopt . |