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

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1 Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts .
2 Perhaps it would be possible to cheat it .
3 Perhaps it would be possible to screen all pernicious anaemia patients gastroscopically at the time of the diagnosis and follow up at least young patients ( those under 60 years of age ) endoscopically every three years .
4 So it would be possible to go on : anybody who wishes to do so will find plenty of relevant material in the conscientious bibliography by Sultana Saeed in Law Justice and Equity : essays in tribute to GW Keeton ( 1967 ) .
5 For the first time ever it would be possible to take , say , an Autologic font and run it , straight out of the box , on a Linotype or Monotype imagesetter .
6 There is also a feeling in some circles that firsts should represent ultimate academic success for undergraduates , and that if they were split further it would be possible to get a ‘ bad first ’ .
7 Hence it would be possible to achieve a Pareto gain , making some people better off without making anyone else worse off .
8 If the discount applied to the lire were only 1 per cent as suggested above , then clearly it would be possible to gain over all by earning an extra 2 per cent on the lire deposit and accept that this would be reduced by 1 per cent as the cost of forward cover , making a 1 per cent gain overall in comparison with staying in sterling and importantly be fully hedged .
9 Scientists believe that often it would be possible to recall ‘ lost ’ information by constructing a new access path or connection — especially valuable for stroke victims or others suffering memory loss .
10 Tomorrow it would be possible to drive and drive she would , back to Palma and the apartment .
11 Surely it would be possible to fit this disgusting effigy with some kind of hessian kilt ; or , failing this , perhaps a strategically planted row of shrubbery might serve . ’
12 After all , until the last century Westminster Hall was used for royal banquets and coronation feasts ; surely it would be possible for people to order a nice cup of tea there .
13 At the time it was hoped that eventually it would be possible to refine the quantitative distinctions between the performance of men and machines so that allocation of function decisions would be unambiguous ( Wuffeck and Zeitlin , 1962 ) , but this has not happened .
14 Then it would be possible to set matters right and return to the correct position of Clause 9 .
15 If the focus of helping young people in residential care were redefined to identify the development of personal self-worth as a primary aim , then it would be possible to achieve this by including both dimensions , neither to the exclusion of the other .
16 If parallel market rates were lower and instrument prices higher , then it would be possible to sell parallel instruments , at a high price , and with the proceeds buy a similar instrument with regard to risk and maturity in the discount market at a low price , and therefore higher yield .
17 Indeed it would be possible to identify some fells from the attention he gives to the geology and his affection for each fold of rock and each rattling , winding ghyll , without seeing the characteristic outline of the peak .
18 Much of the emphasis on set theory in Lacan and others , as well as the similarity of certain of their ideas to those of Gödel , whose work Cavaillès utilizes , can be attributed to his influence : indeed it would be possible to argue that the whole emphasis in post-war French thinkers on a non-contradictory heterogeneity in which incompatible or incommensurable elements are juxtaposed against or as part of each other is derived as much from set theory as from Freud .
19 Yet it would be possible to argue exactly the opposite case .
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