Example sentences of "[vb infin] it possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You always did believe it possible to cure other people 's unhappiness , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The Smiths of Mauchline were the most successful at diversifying and , as one member of the family put it , they produced ‘ every article which you can conceive it possible to make . ’ |
| 3 | " He was convinced " , wrote Tupper , " that the German man-in-the-street was participating in this senseless and savage struggle because the Prussian system forced him to ; the ordinary subject of the Kaiser might be misled into believing his cause just — but he could not conceive it possible that the German sailormen who had been part of our Merchant Service could have anything but hatred for this catastrophe " . |
| 4 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 5 | ‘ You do not think it possible ? ’ |
| 6 | In the event , some RACs adopted the higher target of 5 per cent while others did not think it possible to achieve even 3 per cent within existing resources . |
| 7 | I do not think it possible that datura , Indian or British , or deadly nightshade invaded our menu . ’ |
| 8 | Do you indeed think it possible ? ’ |
| 9 | Apprenticeship indentures amongst the Inland Revenue records in the Public Record Office show , however , that by the second decade of the eighteenth century the geographical distribution of the craft in the Midlands had been largely determined ; shortly afterwards Daniel Defoe observed , ‘ One would scarce think it possible so small an article of trade could employ such multitudes of people as it does , for the whole country seems to be employ 'd in it ’ . |
| 10 | Leaving off with the ‘ imaginative fury ’ might make it possible to ‘ unlock meanings that fictionalising has obscured , distended , or even inverted ’ . |
| 11 | The essence of the association 's idea was to develop flats for sale and this would make it possible to bring in private institutional finance — eg from a building society which might then become involved in providing mortgages for the individual purchasers . |
| 12 | For example , for every three children you help us immunise with your gift , your Covenant will make it possible to immunise one more — and quite possibly save another life . |
| 13 | He had thought of experimenting with three different subjects — maths , foreign languages and chess — but his financial circumstances in those days did not make it possible . |
| 14 | He said that he could not imagine conditions arising that would make it possible , stressed the collective nature of the democratic movement and said ‘ I can not forever play this dual role of amateur politician and writer . ’ |
| 15 | Smaller wage rises would make it possible to have lower inflation at a higher level of output — a combination that clever manipulations of macroeconomic policy ( interest rates , exchange rates and budget deficits ) have always failed to achieve . |
| 16 | You love it here , and I could make it possible for you to remain here . |
| 17 | This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it . |
| 18 | He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world . |
| 19 | The IRFEL in particular will make it possible to study molecular excitation and dissociation by using infrared multiphoton excitation under collision free conditions . |
| 20 | By reducing the scope of the enquiry we make more certain the worth of what we are doing ( always assuming , of course , that the study itself is well conducted ) , and by describing carefully what we do we make it possible for other researchers to duplicate our own study or conduct a similar one with slightly different variables . |
| 21 | It is obvious that only personal documentation at the time could make it possible for these three politicians to write anything with accuracy from 20 years after the events had taken place . |
| 22 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 23 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |
| 24 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 25 | The second edition of Introduction to High Energy Physics by D. H. Perkins requires considerable initial knowledge of quantum theory , but this does make it possible to use Feynmann diagrams immediately . |
| 26 | They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission . |
| 27 | The project will make it possible to test the validity of the claim that primary education received in the mother tongue is richer and more meaningful than that received in a second language . |
| 28 | The best type of treatment for both psychosomatic complaints and hypochondria is some form of psychotherapy or hypnotherapy ( see p l53 ) which should make it possible for the sufferer to identify the underlying emotions that are responsible for the symptoms . |
| 29 | Such acceptance would make it possible to bring to an end the constant friction and disagreement between science and religion ; for religion , with its ‘ god ’ defined independently of the origin of the world or of life , would not be concerned with those origins , and would be completely unaffected by scientific advance . |
| 30 | Such dreams were defeated by the means she 'd first thought would make it possible for her baby to be returned to her . |