Example sentences of "it is [adv] possible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is equally possible to use the present as the starting point of work with the family . |
| 2 | Yet it is equally possible to see the faults lying with industry in its failure to provide opportunities attractive enough to overcome the alleged prejudice against it . |
| 3 | Street lighting and roads are another example , for although it is physically possible to exclude users unless they pay a charge , it is prohibitively expensive to do so , except for roads in great demand like motorways and major bridges . |
| 4 | Where , as appears to be the case at Uppark , it is physically possible to make an accurate restoration of a great building , it should be made — and not jeered at as the creation of a theme park of misnamed pastiche . |
| 5 | It is similarly possible to make complex classifications of the types of reefs ( summaries may be found in Daly , 1934 ; Guilcher , 1958 ; Stoddart , 1969 , and the references quoted therein ) . |
| 6 | Suppose also that it is somehow possible to place it in a space capsule in which it can survive , so far as can be seen , for ever , without any external aid . |
| 7 | However , it is rarely possible to define the size of the largest or smallest particles precisely in a size distribution . |
| 8 | Talking about Hamlets , I need another quotation before I begin my travels , for when it comes to research into English I have found that it is rarely possible to predict the end-point of the journey when one starts out , or whether one 's road leads anywhere at all . |
| 9 | Cancellation is the least favoured option : once a project is cut out of the Long-Term Costing , it is rarely possible to argue it back in again . |
| 10 | It is rarely possible to explain this as a matter of mere incompetent glossing . |
| 11 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 12 | Lifetable analysis — In a study of this kind , it is rarely possible to follow up every patient until they either relapse or successfully complete the trial . |
| 13 | With care it is generally possible to express most ideas clearly and accurately ; however , on occasions it may be necessary to adopt particular language or legal formulae in order to express an idea accurately . |
| 14 | First of all , it is generally possible to specify a selector and a selectee in a construction in which co-occurrence restrictions are operating . |
| 15 | The list itself contains a description , and it is generally possible to tell from that which features are protected . |
| 16 | This may be too strong ; it is possible to state " general rules " for the interpretation of some common provisions , but those rules are only rebuttable presumptions and it is generally possible to find authorities to support a different interpretation . |
| 17 | And , just as an effective fishing lure may be fabricated from cheap , shiny metal , it is generally possible to summarise a commercial movie 's hook in one sentence . |
| 18 | And , just as an effective fishing lure may be fabricated from cheap , shiny metal , it is generally possible to summarise a commercial movie 's hook in one sentence . |
| 19 | It is generally possible to isolate at least one compelling selling feature even if it is only that your client 's product is the cheapest . |
| 20 | The breadth of such bands means that those of different species often overlap , but it is generally possible to select a wavelength at which one compound may be monitored during the course of a reaction , for instance . |
| 21 | If a date can be assigned to one or more points of this relative sequence , it is normally possible to make reasonably accurate inferences about the dates of the intermediary points . |
| 22 | In other words , in the literature of a given subject area , it is normally possible to identify a number of facets and , by applying several characteristics of subdivision , to divide isolates into facets . |
| 23 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 24 | It is thus possible to describe the types of information which are most clearly central and peripheral with respect to this definition . |
| 25 | It is thus possible to analyse factors in the situation , but not to make general statements about many aspects of the movement in population at this time . |
| 26 | It is thus possible to define the functioning relationships as attributes of the intersecting sub-spaces . |
| 27 | It is thus possible to see local politics in these years as having , in some degree , a life of its own ’ ( 1985a , pp. 82–3 ) . |
| 28 | It is thus possible to see why , although the Suez affair brought about so dramatic a collision between the two governments , the damage in practice was not lasting . |
| 29 | From the number density of craters on these regions it is thus possible to establish the lunar cratering rate over a considerable period of time as shown in Figure 6.9 . |
| 30 | It is thus possible to find cases where a final plosive becomes a fricative or nasal ( e.g. ‘ that side ’ , ‘ good night ’ ) , but most unlikely that a final fricative or nasal would become a plosive . |