Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] possible for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within this simple framework of social resentment it was soon possible for him to nurture an obsessive anti-Semitism , which seems at first to have no specific origin in his emotional experience . |
| 2 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 3 | And many women actually did take to their beds when they were menstruating and erm sort of retired from active life and this was n't possible then because so many women had been called up you know and they had had to be in the army or they had to work in factories and it was n't possible for them to be absent . |
| 4 | It was n't possible for him to have vanished like that . |
| 5 | All I am saying is that it was n't possible for me . |
| 6 | At the end we er , of the day I had to opt out because it was n't possible for me to fit in and someone else a , I 'm just thinking of the time taken for er , er housing manager or one of his er , staff to erm er , you know , to do that practical thing that 's all |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't possible for me to take time off work , ’ Ashley protested . |
| 8 | With Uncle 's help we all struggled on after he died , and when I got a bit older and left school it was not possible for me to contemplate leaving home to find a job and a new life outside Baldersdale . |
| 9 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 10 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
| 11 | It was just possible for her to see a suggestion of light at the spy hole , set like a marble in the wall . |
| 12 | It was quite possible for them to take their deferences and privileges and give rather little in return . |
| 13 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 14 | It was only possible for us to teach four girls and five teachers . |