Example sentences of "still possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while it is possible to identify liberal catholicism in Ireland from the late nineteenth century to the present , and though there has grown up a climate of liberal dissent and criticism of conservative catholicism , it is still possible to assert the prominence of conservative catholicism , particularly in its alliance with nationalism . |
| 2 | But , if an error of judgement or a bad decision has been made , the vital thing is to recognise that , admit it and take immediate action to break the chain of events while a safe course of action is still possible . |
| 3 | For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance . |
| 4 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 5 | Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix . |
| 6 | It was still possible in early 1922 to buy foodstuffs in the city markets if one had the money . |
| 7 | I thought that it was still possible for there to be a political link between the United Kingdom and India . |
| 8 | Here we return to property again , since what Marx seems to be stressing above all , in his discussion of other systems , is that , without the particular formulation of private property which dominates capitalist institutions , an ordered life is still possible . |
| 9 | If it is difficult now to concur with the Bioscope reviewer 's judgement that the film ‘ surpasses in technical achievement anything of its kind ever made in Britain , and at times soars to heights of directorial brilliance ’ , it 's still possible to understand how an audience that had been accustomed only to silent films might warm to the various acts on display . |
| 10 | Military officers said more disruptions by mutinous soldiers were still possible . |
| 11 | Military officers said more disruptions by mutinous soldiers were still possible . |
| 12 | It is still possible to open a door and find a dozen women sitting quietly round a bench sewing small squares of silk , with all the cloistered intensity of medieval seamstresses . |
| 13 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 14 | The latter form of mortgage is still possible ; but , instead of the former , a form of mortgage has been invented under which both mortgagor and mortgagee take legal estates ( see pp. 96–9 ) . |
| 15 | Boycott led the way with 86 and everyone made a contribution of sorts , but soon after lunch on the final day they were 290 for 6 and defeat was still possible . |
| 16 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 17 | His assurances that it was still possible to declare war and survive were appreciated most of all by the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ — the Pentagon , the RAND Corporation ( for which Kahn 's research was done ) and the thriving weapons industry , Deterrence always had and will have one decisive advantage over Disarmament as a policy : it makes some people a fortune . |
| 18 | It 's still possible to grow good primulas in well-drained soil , but shade , plenty of organic matter and regular watering are even more essential . |
| 19 | The , by contrast , normally sober reports of the District Leader of Augsburg City added that belief and trust in the Führer had reached an unprecedented level , and that ‘ if an increase in feeling for Adolf Hitler was still possible , it had become reality with the day of the return to Berlin ’ from the western Front . |
| 20 | Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall . |
| 21 | With twenty-four players and only four first violins , Verdi is still possible . |
| 22 | Through all the vicissitudes of history , the crown came to embody Hungarian nationality and the Kingship remained elective , so that it was still possible for Hungarians in 1860 to deny Francis Joseph sovereignty because he had not been crowned with the crown of St Stephen . |
| 23 | Constance was born in the area and remembers when it was still possible to buy a mop or a washing-up bowl in the local shops . |
| 24 | The cut fell on 145 , one over par , and consequently 63 of the original field of 83 made it under what is known as the ‘ 10-stroke rule ’ — anyone who is within 10 shots of the leader , on the theoretical grounds that it is still possible to win from there . |
| 25 | No one will now make the mistake of thinking that industrial employment is ‘ impossible side by side with crofting ’ , but it is still possible to make the contrary mistake of thinking that agricultural improvements by themselves can make a significant contribution towards a permanent solution of the crofting problem . |
| 26 | However , it is still possible that hoteliers , nightclub owners etc. may decide to change their facilities making them permanently unavailable . |
| 27 | In such a case , however , it is still possible to recognize much in his poetry that is a response to his origins . |
| 28 | Where the locality was suitable or where a number of mills were in close proximity to one another ( such as the Hicks/Hooper empire at Eastington ) it was still possible for a number of separate mills to be run together . |
| 29 | Although comparatively little of the original mill buildings remain , it is still possible to gauge the size of what was once one of the Stroud area 's largest flock manufacturers . |
| 30 | Although the pond now lies under the garden and the road , it is still possible to trace the mill 's tail race as it flows to meet the stream in the gardens of Westbury Court . |