Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has experience of leadership at all levels , as has his possible successor Ashley Metcalfe . |
| 2 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , says everything possible is being done for a twenty eight year old man who 's spent thirteen months in an Indian jail . |
| 3 | Mr Stapleton says everything possible has been and will be done to answer their inquiries . |
| 4 | Any significant stroke or head injury which happens to a person within a marriage , friendship or family situation alters your possible future plans as well as your day-to-day life . |
| 5 | He still thinks it possible to escape . |
| 6 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 7 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |
| 8 | Everything converges — and Nietzsche himself does everything possible to ensure that it should . |
| 9 | As far as I am aware , no senior officer in the Navy considers it possible to maintain the nuclear deterrent without four submarines — and certainly no senior naval officer would support the suggestion of the Labour candidate for Barrow and Furness that the fourth submarine should be turned into a 17,000 tonne sub-sea supply vessel delivering oil instead of missiles . |
| 10 | If you are hoping that your proposals will be adopted by senior management you will need to ensure that your report anticipates their possible reactions . |
| 11 | It makes everything possible , and it makes everything shine . ’ |
| 12 | It also makes it possible to watch the towplane instead of the ground and , as on a landing , looking well ahead reduces the tendency to over-control . |
| 13 | She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can . |
| 14 | The gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks makes it possible to pull the legs back , push the hips forward and stand up straight . |
| 15 | The way in which the film provokes these questions makes it possible , even today , to understand why this film was such a hit , selling 385 prints at £10 apiece . |
| 16 | The revised Defence plan , with its greatly reduced demands on manpower and its emphasis on highly trained mobile forces , now makes it possible to contemplate putting the Services on to an all-regular basis ; and the Government will endeavour to bring about this change as soon as practicable . |
| 17 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 18 | If we know how horses communicate , it not only makes it easier for us to understand them and look after them , but it also makes it possible for us to communicate with them more satisfactorily . |
| 19 | A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted . |
| 20 | This potential for power makes it possible to consider a situation in which decision-making with reference to local development can be backed by cash , and ultimately can become a closed and self-supporting system . |
| 21 | A recent study of people 's lives in the year before their death makes it possible to examine the part residential and nursing homes play in caring for people during the twelve months before their death . |
| 22 | The shape of a tapir makes it possible for it to push its way through the thick undergrowth at considerable speed . |
| 23 | but the crucial factor which makes it possible for middle-class women to enter the labour force and , at the same time , maintain traditional values in the home , is the existence of the domestic servant . |
| 24 | The market makes it possible for the peasant to grow and sell cash crops , rather than just maintaining a subsistence economy and therefore to produce a surplus . |
| 25 | ‘ We also now have a technique that makes it possible to control the production of female ova — egg cells . |
| 26 | The importance of the law in such matters is in creating a centre of power which makes it possible to enforce moral duties . |
| 27 | It is their democratic right and modern technology makes it possible . |
| 28 | This makes it possible to believe that God can relate to us , and that he can reach out to us and transform our nature . |
| 29 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 30 | This , I think is what makes it possible for this story to have a positive if not a ‘ sunset ’ ending . |