Example sentences of "[pron] it is possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government can do much to set the boundaries in which it is possible to create wealth . |
| 2 | From which it is possible to draw one of three conclusions . |
| 3 | But it is she who has created an atmosphere in which it is possible for her most senior minister to be publicly rubbished while she escapes without blemish or stain . |
| 4 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 5 | There are a number of such intensive educational approaches , for example work in southern Italy in stimulating rural production cooperatives , from which it is possible to derive a number of conclusions . |
| 6 | Whether they should share a common epistemology is a debate which it is possible to avoid head-on in this context . |
| 7 | But there is only a tiny window through which it is possible to slide into waves of this size . |
| 8 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 9 | Floodwater leaves sand on the planks and this sweeps up into the banks with cornices through which it is possible to step inadvertently . |
| 10 | And while there are situations in which it is possible for the male to simulate orgasm , fellatio is not one of them . |
| 11 | And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again . |
| 12 | Now , for the first time in the history of medical science , a substance has been isolated about which it is possible to say : ‘ If you base your slimming diet on this food you should shed weight more quickly and easily than on a diet based on the same quantity of any other foods . ’ |
| 13 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 14 | As such , it represents a case study — illustrating the interdependence of various techniques , and the extent to which it is possible to make progress in quantifying the effects of policies and of policy changes . |
| 15 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 16 | The second question concerns the extent to which it is possible and desirable to prevent an oversimplification of the divisions created and reinforced within education . |
| 17 | Yet how can we get a picture of the way in which it is possible to accept both that a task is done by rules ( for it is certainly not done randomly ) and yet the performer has no access whatever to the rules ? |
| 18 | Apart from the ethical concerns some people feel on this matter there is the pressing issue of the degree to which it is possible to extrapolate from one species to another , especially from non-human species to ourselves . |
| 19 | The truth of the matter is that the FDR provides the investigator with a very useful tool which can produce a reliable and totally impartial record of the primary flight parameters against a time base , from which it is possible to reconstruct the flight path in three dimensions . |
| 20 | One area for which it is possible to offer some qualitative assessment of performance is financial and commercial services . |
| 21 | The NEA is now the arena in which it is possible to view in microcosm the unglueing of American social life . |
| 22 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 23 | " The very definition of the real has become : " that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction " " he wrote in SIMULATIONS ( 1983 ) . |
| 24 | Cooke ( 1985 : 213 ) has defined ‘ regional ’ as ‘ a socio-spatial scale at which it is possible to place in focus the specificity of particular class formations … regional boundaries are largely coterminous with class practices ’ . |
| 25 | I have already mentioned two ways by which it is possible to travel eastwards out of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and into the Mauléon valley , both of them remote and somewhat tortuous : the mountain roads through Ahusquy or over the Col Bagargui a little further south . |
| 26 | Subjects in which it is possible to have fun are not serious subjects . |
| 27 | The goal is a straightforward and modest one : to build a structure within which it is possible to appreciate differences between places which is not empiricist ( as the CURS initiative largely is ) but is set within an appreciation of the nature of capitalist society . |
| 28 | The problem with this conception is that neither ‘ capitalism ’ nor the ‘ working class ’ are preconstituted masters which it is possible merely to ‘ serve ’ . |
| 29 | Artificial languages have been constructed for which it is possible to ascribe unique , non-zero probabilities to generalizations , but the languages are so restricted that they contain no universal generalizations . |
| 30 | Issues inevitably arise too over the representativeness of the relatively small samples which it is possible to involve in such studies . |