Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] possible for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 2 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 3 | Though all things that exist in the extra-mental world are particulars and singular , it is nevertheless possible for us to form essentially general or abstract ideas . |
| 4 | As with support in the other direction , although it is widely regarded as legitimate for parents to look to their children , it is also possible for them to overstep the boundaries , and the way in which support is requested and delivered is important . |
| 5 | Because the hypnotherapist is present the whole time and observing the patient 's reactions , it is also possible for him to know when to introduce the detachment technique which will ensure that no distress is suffered . |
| 6 | If she is a good woman of business , it is sometimes possible for her to let her rooms advantageously … |
| 7 | He has to do what it is morally possible for him to do in the circumstances . |
| 8 | What it means is that as life ‘ is not a single straight line ’ he does what he thinks must be done and what it is morally possible for him to do in situations of moral dilemma . |
| 9 | Although these sentences differ in sense , it is quite possible for them to have the same reference , and the same truth value . |
| 10 | The sceptic suggests that the two are only contingently related , i.e. that it is quite possible for there to be the one without the other , and that in fact for all we know this is how things are . |
| 11 | Well that may be a bit of fun , but it is quite possible for you to write in a complicated manner without realising it . |
| 12 | This is a perfectly valid question to raise in a case study response , and you might go on to consider whether it is still possible for them to change direction , even now . |
| 13 | I accept that there has been a steady concentration of power in the hands of large , sophisticated and diversified publishing companies , yet it is still possible for you or me to set up on our own , and publish highly professional and innovative books from our own back bedroom at very little cost . |
| 14 | Within this simple framework of social resentment it was soon possible for him to nurture an obsessive anti-Semitism , which seems at first to have no specific origin in his emotional experience . |
| 15 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 16 | The problem was that it was theoretically possible for someone to introduce poison gas into a remote and perhaps unguarded part of the system and for the noxious fumes to be carried through to the General-Secretary 's apartments or office . |
| 17 | It was just possible for her to see a suggestion of light at the spy hole , set like a marble in the wall . |
| 18 | It was quite possible for them to take their deferences and privileges and give rather little in return . |
| 19 | Phillips , Chang and Buzzell ( 1983 ) also showed that it was quite possible for there to be several different degrees of differentiation . |
| 20 | It was quite possible for someone to start from relatively humble beginnings and work one 's way up in society through trade guild or livery company affiliation to become a member of the town council . |
| 21 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 22 | I thought that it was still possible for there to be a political link between the United Kingdom and India . |
| 23 | It was only possible for us to teach four girls and five teachers . |