Example sentences of "[conj] it would be possible " in BNC.

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1 The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services .
2 Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ?
3 Standard periods would be prescribed for different types of business , although it would be possible to apply for a special timetable at an early stage and for detailed variations of the timetable .
4 The Electricity Council told the Energy Committee that it would be possible to meet the Toronto Conference target of a 20 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 .
5 By the end of my stay in health , I had become convinced that it would be possible to create a health commission with its own chief executive or chairman .
6 For a long time , I believed that it would be possible to overthrow the Irish regime by English working class ascendancy …
7 I understand that it would be possible for you to supply us with the manuscripts by the end of August this year .
8 It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself .
9 Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees .
10 As supply was limited , and controlled by censorship , reading was conventional , but one soon discovered that it would be possible to spend a life-time reading books which were not obscure and still not exhaust everything that was worthwhile .
11 After detailed examination of the information fields , it was felt that it would be possible to categorise them by type as a basis for selecting areas for further study .
12 She had started to look for another job , as it seemed that it would be possible to sell the shop within the next few weeks .
13 The result of this examination indicates that it would be possible for Depts I and II to decrease their respective production by approximately 3.3 per cent , and providing Dept .
14 As Jung pointed out , it is necessary for us to have a Shadow , since we can not be everything that it would be possible for us to be .
15 For example , regulatory agencies should be strengthened , particularly in their legal departments , so that it would be possible to nurture a pool of state lawyers sufficiently specialized and experienced to be a fair match for corporate lawyers .
16 The euphoria of that summer gripped radicals of various persuasions : some sought merely to serve the peasantry , with no clear political goal ; some hoped to lay the foundations for a conscious peasant socialist movement ; others shared the hope of the veteran anarchist , M. A. Bakunin ( 1814–76 ) , that it would be possible to ignite immediate peasant rebellion .
17 I thought that it would be possible to adopt the exterior trappings of the system without succumbing personally ; yet because I was frightened of appearing different or cockier than the others , I fell in with their mannerisms , jokes and brutishness .
18 However , Michell reasoned that it would be possible to have a star that was sufficiently massive and sufficiently small in size that its escape velocity would be greater than the velocity of light .
19 He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life .
20 The investment was eventually approved on the basis that it would be possible to vary products quickly over six different types .
21 These non-relevant documents are frequently referred to as noise Notice that it would be possible to improve recall until every relevant document is retrieved by scanning the entire document collection , but such perfect recall ( that is , retrieving every relevant document ) would be accompanied by a drop in the proportion of relevant documents found .
22 In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter .
23 The Audit Commission pointed out that 4 million people would be lifted out of the penury of having to pay it and that it would be possible to concentrate on those who can genuinely afford to pay but who do not .
24 We have shown that it would be possible to measure pancreatic enzyme secretion and synthesis rates simultaneously if approximately 50 µCi of a C labelled amino acid tracer was infused intravenously for four hours together with secretin and cholecystokinin .
25 The Court of Appeal , having reviewed the nature of the flat and the number of beds within it , stated that it would be possible for the landlord to use the flat concurrently with the occupiers and therefore they had only licences .
26 The belief that it would be possible to maintain old computer hardware in operational order for use by future historians is utopian .
27 However , on the facts of Lim 's case the House of Lords upheld the decision of the lower courts that it would be possible to obtain the required facilities outside the National Health Service and that it was reasonable to incur that expense .
28 I considered keeping observation actually on the flat but because of its its location , did not feel that it would be possible for armed officers or for that matter , any officer , to maintain observation for any period of time without being seen .
29 So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals .
30 In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity .
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