Example sentences of "[noun] has [adv] [be] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the shifting of assets and activities from the public to the private sector has not been possible , the government has attempted to subject public organizations ( such as the National Health Service and the administrative sections of Whitehall departments ) to competitive and financial pressures analogous to market pressures under which private businesses operate . |
| 2 | This will have to be reviewed in the light of these new ‘ rules ’ but the advent of new rules does not fundamentally change the principles of effective decision-making : open decision-making has always been possible and will continue to be possible even under LMS . |
| 3 | Wine production in Britain has always been possible , though the evidence for it in the Roman period is almost non-existent . |
| 4 | Whilst running text round graphics has always been possible , although labour intensive , Version 3.0 provides one of the neatest systems yet implemented on any package . |
| 5 | Because medical practitioners are either salaried or paid on a capitation basis they have no financial incentive to " overtreat " , and the competitive bidding-up of salaries has not been possible when pay and salary structures are nationally negotiated ( though this may change in future ) . |
| 6 | The two firms continued to act as member firms in E&Y International , but a full merger has never been possible . |
| 7 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |