Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] it is possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 2 | A whole series of studies , he admits , appear to demonstrate that there is a broad agreement concerning the relative worth of different occupations , which apparently supports the functionalists ' contention that it is possible to identify those positions which are most important in society . |
| 3 | In order to justify a separate organization , the project must be of such a magnitude that it is possible to employ experts from the required disciplines , on a full-time basis . |
| 4 | The authors of Blueprint for a Green Economy express the belief that it is possible to put a money value on the benefit of preserving the rare Californian condor , so why not on chalk-hill blue butterflies ? |
| 5 | Because so many people now retire early , there is a widespread belief that it is possible to get an early pension . |
| 6 | German romantic philosophers before Hegel were infatuated by ‘ expressivism ’ , the belief that it is possible to create a world in which human spiritual capacities can be fully expressed ( Taylor , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | Their residents are heavily dependent upon others in most aspects of their lives and unaccustomed to taking action to change their own condition or to the belief that it is possible . |
| 8 | Nigel Mansell is one example , though Mansell 's metabolism , once released from the horrors of his competitive life , seems to revert to such extreme placidity that it is possible to picture him living out his days as a happy family man and manager of his own investments . |
| 9 | But Merseyside and Manchester both proved last week that it is possible to concoct high drama without substituting motivation for mutilation . |
| 10 | A ‘ system ’ is such a bounded entity that it is possible to differentiate between what is inside and what it outside . |
| 11 | Not content with breaking down barriers between medical professionals and patients , Professor Fletcher has shown by example that it is possible to conduct a lengthy and demanding career while living with insulin-dependent diabetes for over fifty years . |
| 12 | Many systems allow completely unrestricted programmability , in the sense that it is possible to call up any other application or to execute any system command . |
| 13 | Simply expressed , there is the suggestion within the literature on corporatism that it is possible to link the growth of corporate , closed , forms of interest representation to developments with respect to the interventionist state in the context of needs of the capitalist economy at a particular , advanced ( or late ) , stage of development . |
| 14 | Common to the passages quoted above is the assumption that it is possible to denounce ‘ academicism ’ or ‘ professionalism ’ whilst being a member of the academic profession . |
| 15 | Psychometric evaluation is based on the assumption that it is possible to expose experimental and control groups to different treatments , while all other variables are controlled , and to measure changes by means of psychometric tests , achievement tests or attitude scales . |
| 16 | Created in Walworth Road , they were based on the assumption that it is possible to bribe one set of electors with money extracted from the pockets of another set . |
| 17 | The approaches to gathering linguistic information described in the next chapter are all based on the assumption that it is possible to sample a child 's language and that , under certain conditions , this will provide a useful indication of the child 's linguistic ability in other situations . |
| 18 | They all share the misleading assumption that it is possible to produce a singular , uncontestable , objective and accurate representation of the reality external to the literary or photographic or any other text . |
| 19 | It rests on the assumption that it is possible to produce large quantities of almost identical items in a modem industrial process , and therefore it is possible to establish certain tolerances within which quality is acceptable , and outside which it is not acceptable . |
| 20 | But it is in the tension between conceptual confusion and social reality that it is possible to expose some of the assumptions that inform policy and some of the hidden agendas that are currently structuring the life chances of subordinated communities . |
| 21 | relationships between agencies will in practice involve a number of different issues , and the symmetry that it is possible to draw in an abstract model will not be the same for each issue . |
| 22 | It is only in this way that it is possible to explain the fact that Chingis Khan was able to organize the nomads of Central Asia , an extraordinarily disparate collection of groupings whether considered ‘ racially ’ or ‘ linguistically ’ , into a unified and effective war machine . |
| 23 | This is a method of analysing the contents of documents or other non-statistical material in such a way that it is possible to make statistical comparisons between them . |
| 24 | It is only with the development of more radical differentiation in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century that it is possible to speak of a fully-fledged and optimally differentiated cultural modernity . |
| 25 | The distinction from apprehension is necessary to incorporate the phenomenon that it is possible to understand a situation in one sense without knowing what to do about it . |
| 26 | Finally retrieval is a separate process because of another familiar phenomenon that it is possible to know something , that is it must be in storage , but not actually succeed in retrieving it at a particular time . |
| 27 | I wait to see conclusive proof that it is possible in physical and geographical terms to bring the lines from Stratford into the proposed station at King 's Cross without making any changes whatever to the Bill . |
| 28 | I 'm positively not the person to advise anyone on cut-price marine systems or to encourage the idea that it is possible not to compromise such principles by going down market . |
| 29 | Braudel 's categories are based on the idea that it is possible to distinguish various historical ‘ times ’ . |
| 30 | But the problem with the idea that it is possible to dismiss structuralism and poststructuralism with the charge that they neglect history is that this argument itself neglects history . |