Example sentences of "[pers pn] be possible for someone " in BNC.

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1 What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do .
2 Gettier argued that they show the tripartite account to be insufficient ; it is possible for someone not to know even when all the three clauses are satisfied .
3 Under section 23 , however , it is possible for someone who is not a trader to be convicted .
4 In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) .
5 If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in .
6 Indeed , I wondered whether it was possible for someone who had not shared in their experience to pass physically through the white gateposts into the avenue , and attain the domain .
7 Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day .
8 Nourse LJ then considered the authorities and decided that , contrary to the decision of the lower court , it was possible for someone , in contemplation of death , to give up dominion over a house by parting with title deeds — the essential indicia of title .
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