Example sentences of "was possible [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 2 | The journey , by road or rail , was one of the most tedious and inconvenient it was possible to contrive in the British Isles . |
| 3 | It turned out , however , that it was possible to succeed on the present task by using one of several strategies . |
| 4 | There was an orderly system of collection , monitored by the Christian bishops , and it was possible to appeal to the sultan 's court in cases of abuse . |
| 5 | According to him , it was possible to go to the fair and be back in Roscommon before dark . |
| 6 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 7 | While this held true for three of the four firms , it was possible to account for the exceptions in firm C because of the business getting practices of that firm , and in particular its brokerage relationship with the land agent . |
| 8 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 9 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 10 | It was possible to hate at the same time as you loved . |
| 11 | Braque sensed , too , that by dismissing the conventional , single viewpoint perspective it was possible to synthesize into the depiction of the head a variety of information ; thus in a three-quarter view the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen clearly , as if from the side . |
| 12 | He no longer believed that it was possible to struggle against the cruel forces of capitalist wealth . |
| 13 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 14 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 15 | Much of it can be attributed to his astute realization that it was possible to break with the disastrous tradition of Pius IX without compromising on essentials . |
| 16 | From there it was possible to get into the Cathedral only through a large , very heavy door directly opposite the one they had just come through . |
| 17 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |