Example sentences of "[noun] it [be] possible for " in BNC.

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1 Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection .
2 A second conclusion is that despite the findings from small-group research it is possible for relatively large primary work groups of up to fifty members to operate successfully .
3 Within a large warren complex it is possible for as many warreners to work independently as there is surface space for them to use .
4 However , in the new urban environments it was possible for the young and fit to earn good wages and therefore to be independent of their families .
5 With the goal of curriculum enhancement it was possible for a junior member of staff with specific subject expertise to support a senior colleague without such expertise ; but when the goal was professional development it required a clear status differential between senior partner as trainer or consultant and junior partner as trainee or client .
6 Under the Act it is possible for the purchaser to seek a court order against the vendors and the amount recoverable from any person shall be such as the court holds is just and equitable .
7 By using the tilt it is possible for a white water race , for example , to steer down a rapid whilst still using powerful forward strokes rather than having to use slower sweep strokes .
8 At the moment it is possible for some people to complain that because the policy is set and also administered centrally , teams for a major championship marathon are picked in the same way as sprint squads .
9 Between close kin it was possible for the exchanges to be one-way over a longer term , one person a net ‘ giver ’ at a particular point in time because of a reasonable confidence that he or she could be a net ‘ receiver ’ at a later stage .
10 Although in some countries participation in practical work is restricted ( because of employment regulations , for example ) , in most places it is possible for anyone to become involved in some aspect of archaeology .
11 On the latter point it is possible for the public to judge since proceedings in both houses of Parliament are now televised .
12 With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light .
13 In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) .
14 So in theory it 's possible for the county solution at the end of the day to be not completely in line with what its constituent districts think .
15 As the group was under one unified control it was possible for an employee to be moved around within the group or at least have " his information and knowledge " so transferred making it important that Littlewoods should have protection regarding the whole GUS group .
16 In Britain it is possible for an educational institution to obtain a licence to record a very limited range of programmes categorised as educational .
17 But this would itself be merely an instance of the general fact that with most sentences it is possible for two people to understand them but disagree about their truth .
18 No harm follows a reasonable amount of sexual activity during pregnancy ; in later stages it is possible for positions to be adopted in which awkwardness due to the female shape and pressure upon the abdomen are avoided .
19 In such a case it is possible for either the seller or the buyer to commit an anticipatory breach of contract , i.e. to repudiate the contract before the time for performance .
20 In some cases it is possible for a district to be equated with a large town , but in other cases a desire for districts to be larger has produced curious and often locally resented combinations .
21 In certain cases it is possible for a firm to start its own sales organisation with little investment .
22 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 .
23 She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it .
24 In a class which is accustomed to working in groups it is possible for a SENSS teacher to work alongside a group of children which includes one or more pupils with special needs .
25 I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had .
26 In such a situation it is possible for the parent 's self control to snap and in a moment of aberration he may strike the child in a manner that is instantly regretted and most unlikely ever to be repeated . ’
27 ‘ But with tiny babies it is possible for the tags to slip off .
28 In this way it is possible for a marble statue to wave at us .
29 In this way it is possible for the divisions of a text using the drama base ( for example ) to consist of speeches and stage directions , while those of a text using the dictionary base will consist of lexical entries .
30 Under a gold standard it is possible for gold to circulate domestically as the legal tender along with banknotes which can be exchanged on demand for gold .
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