Example sentences of "be possible [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ( e ) Limited contracting-out It may still be possible to contract out of the implied obligations owed under supply contracts .
2 There is , however , a further problem here : even if the required ‘ nationalisation ’ of possession were accomplished , it would not be possible to opt out of the international division of labour with other capitalist economies .
3 ( On most types of training glider it will be possible to get down to the pre-stall buffet and continue with either a slight rocking of the wings or a very gentle inner wingdrop . )
4 It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place .
5 However , Operation Granby proved that it is possible to go out onto the charter market for ships and find ships from many different nations to perform the tasks that we wanted of them .
6 Thus the soignee appearance of Cresson and other French women politicians blazes a torch and tells others that , while everyone is mortal and while women may have many cards stacked against them , it is possible to face up to the worst as well as the best .
7 One of those walks stretches alongside the estuary , and at one point it is possible to look back to the solidity and placidity of the harbour and out , across Doom Bar , to an unpredictable sea .
8 From Middenheim 's many tall towers it is possible to look out over the Great Forest to the south and the Drakwald to the west , a carpet of treetops stretching in every direction save eastwards , where the rising Middle Mountains burst from the forest floor , tall and jagged , and the colour of thunder clouds .
9 It is possible to switch out of the loan if interest rates fall , but this will cost a penalty equivalent to one month 's interest payments .
10 It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) .
11 Even where it is possible to clear up after the day 's work , another couple of unpaid hours work is added to the women 's costs and subtracted from those of her employer .
12 It is possible to find out from the data whether a zone has changed between 1981 and 1991 , but not how .
13 It is possible to start off with the simplest possible system with a few reports and then add to it as new requirements are uncovered .
14 At low tide , sands are exposed and it is possible to walk out to the sea-pool .
15 It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes .
16 To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed .
17 In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to .
18 It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway .
19 The servants would know whether it was possible to get back down the valley .
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