Example sentences of "be possible for [indef pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with .
2 ‘ Now , Mr Jordan , would it have been possible for someone to get into your shed on Friday night , remove the Scapegoat and substitute a body dressed in the Scapegoat 's clothes ? ’
3 He had , of course , ensured this by demanding the presence of a Polish envoy to discuss them in Berlin before it would have been possible for anyone to get there .
4 I think that 's diff you see I , I do n't think that 's possible for everybody to keep in touch with everybody else , I think you 've got to have one person , that everybody looks to , to say , right
5 Nobody and I do n't ever think people will bring up somebody else 's the same as they would their selves , I , I do n't think it 's possible for anybody to do it , I mean look at Julia when she was a , that childminder with that Kerry
6 In a small school it is possible for everyone to start their different distances together .
7 What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do .
8 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 .
9 I did n't think it was possible for somebody to stand in the middle of the fairway and say it 's an iron of any description .
10 Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day .
11 If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in .
12 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 ) .
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