Example sentences of "[adv] it is possible for " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore it is possible for a high degree polynomial to be only slightly better than a low degree one ( even a straight line fit ) , whereas the higher degree fit will certainly require much more effort .
2 In theory , the Cabinet is still collectively responsible to the Commons , and so it is possible for a government to be defeated on a motion of no confidence in the Commons so that it would be forced resign , call for another general election , and face judgement at the polls .
3 And so it is possible for people to come and live here ,
4 Thus it is possible for one of these three Conventions to apply in relation to a purely internal supply-contract in which goods move from one place in a State to another place in the same State pursuant to a contract concluded by acts of offer and acceptance entirely within that State .
5 Thus it is possible for a particle to travel faster than light .
6 Thus it is possible for the system to run out of resources before finding the highest overall spanning hypothesis .
7 The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ .
8 Here it is possible for the jaded adult reader to treat the sentence passively , particularly as he or she can deal in generalizations ( ‘ cat ’ , ‘ mat ’ ) .
9 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 .
10 Even while the phase is switched on it is possible for the current to be reduced by the induced voltage , which is at its maximum positive value when the phase is excited .
11 In response to parliamentary questions , demanding that the government introduce their own bill rather than relying on private members ' initiatives , the Home Office made its familiar position clear : ‘ We strongly support the proposed Bill … but do not see how it is possible for the Government to undertake legislation . ’
12 If we take an example , using our products EQUIS and Delinquency Alert System ( DAS ) , is not too difficult to see how it is possible for a credit marketer to plan effectively .
13 Some researchers maintain that many of these principles are genetically programmed , and it is this which explains how it is possible for speakers of the same language to develop similar and highly complex knowledge of their language , even though , in the normal language learning situation , they will have been exposed only to limited and random samples of speech .
14 But Hilton is chiefly concerned with exploring how it is possible for contemplation and action to be states which are mutually creative and fulfilling for the lord .
15 In all the examples given so far the syllabic has been following another consonant ; sometimes it is possible for another consonant to precede that consonant , but in this case a syllabic consonant is less likely to occur .
16 Not only of course u u unfortunately of course and Sue , Sue mentions there are tragic exceptions to this and one tragic exception i is human beings because unfortunately it is possible for a male human being to force er a female at intercourse because we tend to do it lying down and males are bigger and stronger .
17 If so , then it is possible for one form of communication ( white and black , positive and negative light ) to suggest the existence of another dimension ( colour ) .
18 When the ‘ victim ’ is , say , a government agency such as the Inland Revenue ( UK ) or Medicare ( US ) , or another vast transnational organization , or when it is millions of individuals deprived of trivial amounts of property , or when whole countries or even continents are ‘ victimized ’ as in the case of bribery and corruption of Third World governments or legal officials , or the exportation of products whose consumption is only really safe in a western cultural environment ( Chetley 1979 ) , then it is possible for the corporate official to convince himself that there is no real person suffering , and therefore there is no real criminal victim .
19 Where there is no council housing then it is possible for the village to be completely overrun by ex-urban newcomers .
20 If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) .
21 That is why it is possible for a Christian in particular to feel at one and the same time joyful because the person who has died has entered eternal life , and overwhelmingly sad , or guilty , or relieved at the thought that they have died and the survivor is left with vast changes to absorb into their life pattern .
22 Therefore it is possible for a candidate to win the key to the White House even if he loses in most of the states .
23 This has little effect and the courts will still regard the contract as one contract ( albeit a severable one ) and therefore it is possible for a sufficiently serious breach to be a repudiation of the whole contract , Smyth ( Ross ) v. Bailey ( 1940 H.L. )
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