Example sentences of "it was [adv] possible [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also possible to argue that the size of armies must be limited by the capacity of society to maintain them : Montesquieu believed that a ruler could hardly afford to have more than one per cent of his subjects under arms simultaneously , and other writers put the proportion still lower . |
| 2 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 3 | By the end of the 1980s it was nonetheless possible to say that the USSR was more directly involved in the affairs of the world community than at any previous time in her history , not only at a formal intergovernmental level but also through a variety of personal , commercial , sporting , scientific and other channels . |
| 4 | For it was always possible to argue that a primordial molecular arrangement had been designed in such a way that the universe , as we know it , would be the outcome . |
| 5 | It was therefore possible to argue that you did not want it even if you could have it . ’ |