Example sentences of "possible for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What comes to the fore through Gandhi 's strictures on the attitudes and methods of certain Christian missionaries is that it is possible for religious zeal and enthusiasm to lead to activities inconsistent with the religious and ethical ideals or values one might be seeking to promote . |
| 2 | In Figure 6.3 the rapid increase of speed with depth in the outer 10 or 20 km is due largely to the increasing compaction of a fragmented medium as the overburden increases : it is not possible for solid rock to give this behaviour . |
| 3 | If , however , there are strong expectations that the general level of interest rates will fall in the future , it is possible for long-term interest rates to be lower than short-term rates . |
| 4 | However , it is possible for other war engines and large monsters to inflict damage on them . |
| 5 | It is possible for hot iron to crack under a stream of cold water ( ie , from fire brigade emergency action ) , but cases where this circumstance has led to premature structural collapse are rare . |
| 6 | This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |
| 8 | The great asset of symbolic modelling is just this , learning does not have to depend entirely on practice and it is possible for collective knowledge to accumulate . |
| 9 | You asked if it would be possible for certain material witnesses to stay on at the Lodge for an extra night while you continue your investigations on the spot . |
| 10 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 11 | In a closed economy with no government sector where no money either enters or leaves the system it would be possible for total liquidity adjustment between banks to occur in such a way . |
| 12 | An immediate and obvious problem with pluralists ' methods is that in the effort to achieve falsifiability , only major visible issues reaching decisional status are used , yet of course it is possible for pre-decisional power to be used to keep grievances from becoming observable issues . |
| 13 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 14 | Only in a small number , with conditions and parameters like our own universe , will it be possible for intelligent life to develop and to ask the question , ‘ Why is the universe as we observe it ? ’ |
| 15 | It is possible for corporate restructuring to benefit one class of claimants and to harm another class . |
| 16 | Where such doubt does not exist , as in the cases I have mentioned , I think it should be possible for habitual child molesters , those guilty of premeditated murder and terrorist bombers to be given a lethal injection . |
| 17 | If it can raise a vast amount of capital — £1.8 billion — and believes that it is worth while to do so , surely it is possible for British Rail to commit the £100 million that is needed to electrify the main line . |
| 18 | It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines . |
| 19 | It is possible for British Coal to achieve those contracts and that is what I look forward to seeing . |
| 20 | It is possible for social inequality to exist without social strata . |
| 21 | It is therefore perfectly possible for social care to be provided in an ordinary household with rehabilitation and personal development as its main purpose ; in other words , the therapy itself is of a social care nature . |
| 22 | He advised his student that a comprehensive microlight conversion course was necessary as it was possible for conventional control ( three-axis ) pilots with insufficient weight-shift experience to make incorrect control inputs when under a heavy workload or in turbulent conditions . |