Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contexts in which only make is possible fall into two types . |
| 2 | The other type of expressive effect found in contexts where only make is possible can be illustrated by ( 154 ) — ( 156 ) : ( 154 ) … beautiful canvases of mountains and forms . |
| 3 | The following examples , where only make is possible , are more difficult : ( 157 ) … the famous Howe sewing machine . |
| 4 | These are available in lightweight materials , so fixing is possible with panel adhesive , or the adhesive often supplied with the rose . |
| 5 | So perhaps escape is possible . |
| 6 | Despite the heat , Ludovico 's passion had taken her to heights she had not dreamed were possible . |
| 7 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 8 | Films like Basil Dearden 's Sapphire ( 1959 ) , dealing with racial prejudice and mixed Marriages , and Victim ( 1961 ) , which cast Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual barrister who decides to take a stand against social hypocrisy , would not have been possible if television had not already put such issues on the agenda . |
| 9 | Films like Ken Russell 's The Devils ( 1971 ) , with its hysteria and erotic frenzies , or Nic Roeg 's Do n't Look Now ( 1973 ) would not have been possible without the developments in Gothic instigated at Hammer 's Bray Studios ( although Roeg had also worked , as a cameraman , on Roger Corman 's The Masque of the Red Death ( 1964 ) ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 11 | Mr Bond 's business rise would not have been possible without the return of laissez-faire ; the emergence of deregulation ; the ascent of the mega-merger and the credit boom centred on the Anglo economies of Australia , the United States and Britain . |
| 12 | Before a combination of Chernobyl , glasnost and the easing of East-West military tensions lifted the blanket of secrecy covering civil reactors in the Soviet Union WANO would not have been possible . |
| 13 | In narrower military terms , the Sandys ’ Reformation , without which it would not have been possible to contemplate ending National Service , was already seen in Whitehall as premature , if not wholly mistaken . |
| 14 | This growth in what the tourism business winsomely calls the ‘ silver generation ’ would not have been possible without big changes in boots and bindings . |
| 15 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |
| 16 | Notts ' team manager , John Birch , said : ‘ It is something we have been working towards but which would not have been possible without Swithland 's backing . ’ |
| 17 | Possibly , the River Thames had a very different appearance and variations in its route , so it would not have been possible to pin-point the position of Chiswick which now lies nestled in a compact ‘ U ’ bend of the river . |
| 18 | The sculpted figures of mineworkers with their lamps are the work of M. B. Braun from 1721–5 and are a salient reminder that without the silver mines of Jihlava and Kutná Hora royal patronage of the arts would not have been possible . |
| 19 | It did not appear appropriate , therefore , to develop one global user requirement for the two departments as implied by the FAOR proposals , and , in any event , this would not have been possible without extensive reorganisation of the filing and reference systems as a whole . |
| 20 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 21 | Author 's Note : — The compilation of earlier chapters of this book could not have been possible without Abraham Farrar 's researches to point the way . |
| 22 | Otherwise his life would not have been possible , because he only thought of that every night , and every day too . ’ |
| 23 | She is quick to point out that this would not have been possible without the help of all the artistes and musicians on the various shows . |
| 24 | ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with . |
| 25 | Cheltenham Clerk of the Course Philip Arkwright said racing would not have been possible yesterday . |
| 26 | He claims that major fiascos such as BCCI , Barlow Clowes and the Maxwell pension fraud would not have been possible without the connivance of offshore centres . |
| 27 | Without it , modern democracy and republicanism could not have come into existence and scientific and technological progress would not have been possible ( and possibly slavery might not have been abolished ) . |
| 28 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 29 | thanks Our thanks to the following salons without whose help this issue would not have been possible |
| 30 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |