Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] would be possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services . |
| 2 | Standard periods would be prescribed for different types of business , although it would be possible to apply for a special timetable at an early stage and for detailed variations of the timetable . |
| 3 | Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ? |
| 4 | In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity . |
| 5 | No modification is required to the bulkhead so it would be possible to replace either before or after the engine replacement . |
| 6 | That just as you are making it possible to select conceptions that will result in the right sort of people , as you define them , and reject the potentially bad ones , so it would be possible to reject the good and retain the bad . |
| 7 | I seriously doubt if it would be possible to put up a climb like this without bolts , particularly as the rock is not beyond suspicion . |
| 8 | I 'm writing to ask if it would be possible to repeat the exercise this year . |
| 9 | I 'm writing to ask if it would be possible to repeat the exercise in 1993 . |
| 10 | In autumn 1989 she asked her colleague , Annie Caubet , head of the Louvre 's Department of Oriental Antiquities , if it would be possible to mount a loan exhibition while the objects were off view . |
| 11 | The PageMaker User Group ( now universally known as PMUG ) was established in the spring of 1989 as a result of a direct request from Aldus to a group of independent users to see if it would be possible to establish such an organisation . |
| 12 | Reynolds thought that Carson would probably want to see the catalogue , so he asked if it would be possible to get it copied . |
| 13 | She splashed water on her face , wishing she had her overnight case up here with her , wondering if it would be possible to make a deal with Ace . |
| 14 | Cameron wondered if it would be possible to raise the matter with him again , and bring him into a more realistic frame of mind , before the soldiers came . |
| 15 | While it would be possible to restrict the use of some of these functions to particular staff , all are within the comprehension of the first time user . |
| 16 | Invited the Home Secretary to ascertain whether it would be possible to draft the title of the Criminal Justice Bill in such a way as to exclude any amendment for the abolition of capital punishment ; |
| 17 | It remains , however , to be considered whether it would be possible to simulate the characteristics of nationhood at federal level by establishing there the appropriate mechanisms . |
| 18 | But , apart from that nod to twentieth-century technology , she tried an experiment of a different sort ; to see whether it would be possible to live here , as in some undefined time-gone-by-period , the life she was ruminating over . |
| 19 | Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; |
| 20 | Perhaps I may turn briefly to the higher rates , which may be in the minds of some , and ask whether it would be possible to picket Park lane , to ask those attending this evening 's £500 per head dinner whether they are paying more tax this year at the lower rate , or whether they paid more tax in 1979 at Labour 's higher rates ? |
| 21 | But Royle refused to concede that the move was dead , saying : ‘ I do n't know yet whether it would be possible to arrange a loan . ’ |
| 22 | The purpose of the first test was to reveal the definition obtainable with this device , the second was to see whether it would be possible to pick out bright spots and define a measure of reflectance by weighting for brightness . |
| 23 | It also says that the Government is considering whether it would be possible to frame a prohibition to cover situations in which a small number of companies or partnerships control a market and abuse their joint market power , without recourse to a restrictive agreement or collusion . |
| 24 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 25 | It would help other hon. Members to know whether British Rail has asked consultants to advise on whether it would be possible to build a satisfactory station above ground rather than underground , as proposed in the Bill . |
| 26 | We finally debated at great length whether it would be possible to avoid making explicit reference to the Director . |
| 27 | I have also been asked whether it would be possible to make partial exemption orders under section 48(1) of the Shops Act . |
| 28 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |