Example sentences of "possible [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity .
2 How was it possible for any man who fell within the circle of his radiance to forgive Hotspur for being Hotspur ?
3 Methodologically , it is not possible for any researcher to get the kids to talk with much sense of ideas since the question ‘ Why ? ’ to the smashing of milk bottles is one that is not possible for the boy to answer outside the context of the whole Saturday evening …
4 And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better .
5 I recently read that it is now possible for any individual to look through the Land Registry files to confirm ownership of land .
6 The share system of land ownership did not meet the approval of the British , and legislation was passed which made it possible for any shareholder to force the division of a tract .
7 The Court of Appeal rejected the view that had previously held sway , namely that it was possible for any employee to work both ordinarily in Great Britain and outside it .
8 So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch .
9 This must be done as soon as possible after any loss , damage or accident .
10 Independent travel by air is possible with any day travel at the same price .
11 University undergraduates listened to a list of words and were required to recall as many of these words as possible in any order they wished , either immediately or after a delay .
12 R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools .
13 If the central part of the retina is damaged , clear , acute vision will not be possible in any part of the visual field .
14 And as it is quite feasible for a single transaction to have a different currency for each stage of the business cycle — order , invoice , payment , and bank transactions posted to a single account , whether a general ledger account , customer account , or supplier account , should ideally be possible in any currency .
15 I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime .
16 Reception was , and still is , poor in many parts of the country , but with ingenuity and a certain amount of patient tuning it is possible in any area to pick up services from transmitters in Lusaka , Kabwe , Livingstone and the Copperbelt .
17 Market entry is thus possible from any location in Germany .
18 In 1991 we achieved a combined profit of £540,500 ( although down significantly from that of £1 million in 1990 ) and this was made possible without any contribution by RIBA Magazines Ltd. which broke-even .
19 Mergers and takeovers would be possible at any time , but only with the board 's consent .
20 The benefits of such a system would be that the Consultation List would be available on all computer terminals , and therefore all personnel could be permitted to update/alter details , e.g. contact names , addresses , to ensure the records are as up–to–date as possible at any time .
21 The underlying principle of configuration control states that it should be possible at any time during the lifetime of a supported product to reconstruct a particular supported version of it to ensure that if a change is agreed and installed , then that change and no other would occur .
22 Although Eisenhower chose to sum up somewhere between Humphrey and the US Joint Chiefs , with each crisis being dealt with in the light of the prevailing circumstances , he agreed that if constructive talks with the USSR seemed possible at any time , it would be wrong to disappoint public hopes of some relaxation of the Cold War .
23 Bearing in mind that retirement in normal health is possible at any age from 50 , directors aged 37 or more should look seriously at this issue .
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