Example sentences of "as it [is] possible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as it is possible to inherit blue eyes or r ; d hair , we can also inherit good and bad influences — both physical and mental . |
| 2 | Just as it is possible to enjoy taking part in a favourite sport without either joining a dub or belonging to a team , so it is possible to be a spiritual person even if you never enter a church , synagogue , mosque or any other place of religious worship . |
| 3 | However , it is not necessary for the restraint of trade clause to be part of the main contract so long as it is possible to argue that it is referable to it or is in some other way of contractual force . |
| 4 | Yet it is possible to have a real relationship without such consciousness , just as it is possible to talk about God without being spiritual . |
| 5 | Peter Calvocoressi has described the principle of Enigma as succinctly as it is possible to do : ‘ The Enigma was an encyphering machine that produced a highly-variable scramble of the 26 letters of the alphabet by passing electric current through a set of moveable rotors , each of which by its internal electrical connections contributed to the overall scramble . ’ |
| 6 | will always support as far as it is possible to do so . |
| 7 | Coleridge even dares to take on the subject of the workings of Nature , as it were , as he attempts to describe the power and intensity of the earth breathing ; his reference to the ‘ ceaseless turmoil seething , as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing ’ shows the poet getting almost as close to the heart of creativity as it is possible to do . |
| 8 | The other major lesson was that as much information as it is possible to validate should be validated . |
| 9 | Myelography and computed tomography are still widely used in the evaluation of spinal abnormality but MRI is superior and is likely to replace myelography , particularly as it is possible to visualise the spinal cord without introducing intrathecal contrast medium . |
| 10 | Knitted entirely in broken rib , the pattern needs a little concentration as it is possible to confuse right and wrong side rows ; but do n't let that put you off . |
| 11 | The information needs would be identified by taking the model through various stages of decomposition until such time as it is possible to define the information requirements of each activity that contributes to the transformation . |
| 12 | The second approach has on the whole been most successful , as it is possible to use ‘ cheap ’ methods such as CNDO to calculate effective atomic-charges . |
| 13 | The field of art and design education represents a very broad spectrum of study and as far as it is possible to distinguish between ‘ art ’ and ‘ design ’ the former is generally used to denote painting and sculpture and the latter is concerned with the production of graphic material , three-dimensional or textile/fashion artefacts by hand or machine processing . |
| 14 | In May 1989 , after a home league defeat at Derby that seemed to have cost Arsenal the chance of their first Championship since 1971 , I felt as low as it is possible to feel after a football match . |
| 15 | It is ‘ an extraordinary compound ’ , as he himself wrote of the Prime Minister , although the elements and the whole are as different from anything which could have emanated from Lloyd George as it is possible to imagine . |
| 16 | Anyway , at the luncheon concerned he adopted precisely this cautious attitude and the conversation was as sluggish as it is possible to imagine . |
| 17 | Plastic plants can be useful , as it is possible to have two or more identical specimens , which is not easy with living plants . |
| 18 | Just as it is possible to have perfect manners and yet not be a true ‘ gentleman ’ , so it is possible to be connoisseur of fine art and yet be a vandal . |
| 19 | The association might encourage the development of shared publicity and marketing to ensure as much effective publicity and ticket sales promotion as it is possible to provide , both for those projects and those which we regard and cherish as our own . |
| 20 | At such moments we come as close as it is possible to get to the spirit of Crime and Punishment . |
| 21 | Hawaii and Iceland are nearly as far apart as it is possible to get on Earth , but both are composed of basalts , and oceanic volcanoes everywhere in the world are composed of almost identical basalts . |
| 22 | Its presentation is as far away from an analogue style as it is possible to get , which is a surprise given Linn Products ' roots . |
| 23 | Bushwick is a neighbourhood about as far removed from flashy mid-town Manhattan as it is possible to get . |
| 24 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 25 | That is as genuine an example of a knee-jerk reaction as it is possible to get in this place . |
| 26 | About as evil as it is possible to get . ’ |
| 27 | Any competent bush mouse , not to mention man or elephant , can step aside and contemplate the whole grass-roots frenzy at leisure , an object less of menace than of strangeness and wonder , the culmination of an evolutionary story as different from that of mammals as it is possible to conceive in this world . |
| 28 | It is always wise to first check with the recipient the colour scheme of the room in which the picture will be displayed , as it is possible to vary the emphasis placed upon the colours within the picture accordingly . |
| 29 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 30 | In Kufra the police and , so far as it is possible to know , the secret police , were all Kufrans ; in Ajdabiya the officers reflected the tribal composition of the local population ( although their deputy chief was an outsider on temporary assignment for a few years ) . |