Example sentences of "[was/were] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 32 | ‘ You are saying that if it were possible to remove a fertilized egg cell from a woman after she had conceived , you could examine it and say what the resulting child would be like ? ’ |
| 33 | In other words , if it were possible to remove the grievances of the middle classes against those above them , then it might also be possible to nip off the danger of an alliance between the middle classes and the working classes below them . |
| 34 | If only it were possible to avoid these difficulties , and go island-hopping where they speak English , where the controllers are friendly and helpful , where all kinds of services are readily available , taxes are low and fuel plentiful . |
| 35 | Fortunately , at that time it was possible to combat complaints with the argument that it was necessary to control noise and nuisance . |
| 36 | The former believed that it was possible to regenerate people ( this applied emphatically to the young ) and , therefore , progress could be assumed . |
| 37 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 38 | It was possible to see both good and bad in any view , and this proved ‘ the vanity as well as the uncertainty of human knowledge ’ . |
| 39 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 40 | At the far end it was possible to see four mock Grecian columns , painted white and glowing in the light of a single bulb . |
| 41 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 42 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 43 | At one time each village had its own traditional dress , and it was possible to see the influences of different regions of mainland Portugal , particularly the Minho district , on the women 's clothing . |
| 44 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 45 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 46 | Although the wall foundations had been totally removed it was possible to see their ghost in the place where they had been . |
| 47 | This most unpleasant task was completed yesterday , and from our new positions it was possible to see the beginnings of conflict between the Croats and the Titos , which ended in the wounding of some 30 to 40 Croats after which the shooting died down . " |
| 48 | In the red-lit dimness it was possible to see the mutilated Tree Spirits more plainly now and Fenella thought there had never been anything quite so dreadful . |
| 49 | It was possible to see into all its parts freely . |
| 50 | The deeper excavations produced the first complete fossil Bradyodont ( broadtoothed ) Ratfish to be found in Britain and for the fist time it was possible to see how five separately named fossil fragments previously supposed to belong to five different creatures actually fitted together like a jigsaw to form one . |
| 51 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 52 | And they were not all billionaires : it was possible to take a ten day cruise to North Africa for £9 . |
| 53 | To get the specimen from overseas to the artist was the normal practice , but sometimes it was possible to take the artist , or to send him , to the animals . |
| 54 | Furthermore , while it was possible to take into account many of the phonological variations attributable to fast speech production , the analysis excluded a consideration of phonological assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 55 | He lived and died in Königsberg , never venturing beyond the province , and had the reputation of being the contented bachelor from whose afternoon walk it was possible to set one 's watch . |
| 56 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 57 | A narrow gallery ran around the other three sides of the hall from which it was possible to watch the dancers or enjoy the band — a real band , at least a dozen musicians , all in uniform blazers and bow ties . |
| 58 | Certainly it was possible to purchase shrouds ready-made by , at the latest , the second quarter of the seventeenth century , and Gittings makes mention of the body of Reginald Shrawley , a brother of the Hospital of St John , Canterbury , being buried in ‘ a sheet , shirt and cap ’ , costing , in all , four shillings . |
| 59 | Therefore , because capitalism as a system posited a separation of state and direct economic power — in its classical form — it was possible to examine the regularities of economic processes and development by abstracting the role of the state from this process . |
| 60 | It was possible to examine sickness absence within an organisation with a single sickness absence policy . |