Example sentences of "but it [is] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 2 | It may be impossible to draw up a fitness league table but it is possible to say that complexity has increased during evolution . |
| 3 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 4 | Deictic relations are egocentric , but it is possible to annul this relation by expressing a relatum different from the egocentric one . |
| 5 | ‘ Ideology is one thing , but it is possible to enjoy a visual impression without thinking of history . |
| 6 | But it is possible to dissect most crises and examine each component in turn . |
| 7 | The distinct lozenges of mud have gone , worn down by the weather , but it is possible to see their outlines in the dissolving walls . |
| 8 | Using the light microscope , one can not see individual synapses , but it is possible to stain individual neurons and analyse the structure of their dendrites , hence picking up possible changes . |
| 9 | But it is possible to assess the ratio of elements in geological samples , which have been present since the formation of the Earth four thousand million years ago . |
| 10 | But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | But it is possible to use the process determining a variable to generate a measure of the rational expectation of that variable , and this method has the attractive feature of allowing a formal statistical test of a model which includes rational expectations . |
| 12 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 13 | Frequently the evolutionary preconception in terms of which such theories are framed is implicitly group-selectionist , but it is possible to rephrase the theories in terms of orthodox gene selection . |
| 14 | But it is possible to give yourself a massage at home , after your bath , using a rich lubricating cream or body oil . |
| 15 | Detailed evidence for the full range of craftsmen at individual small towns is inevitably lacking , but it is possible to assemble a general picture by using material from a wide variety of sources . |
| 16 | Every time a character is written/read PTR# is incremented by 1 , but it is possible to set PTR# to any number you like . |
| 17 | The single line editor is not available to BBCBASIC(Z80) , but it is possible to include a line editing procedure in your BBCBASIC(Z80) programs . |
| 18 | The experience of admission to hospital and the possibility of surgery will be different for each individual but it is possible to discuss some of the physical and psychological factors which may contribute to stress and the effects these may have on progress and recovery . |
| 19 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 20 | Terry Waite languishes in Lebanon — but it is possible to believe that if our Government came up with a suitably attractive offer , he would be released . |
| 21 | Higher rate taxpayers face a liability to an extra 15% tax if the income is withdrawn , but it is possible to roll up the interest and take it in a year when the investor is only a basic rate taxpayer . |
| 22 | But it is possible to make a few predictions for 1990 . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the exact location of the territorial boundaries is not known , but it is possible to make statistically based estimates of their approximate positions ( Figure 23 ) . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that any component of the nervous system carries out exactly the same computation as the zero-crossing detector described in the previous paragraph but it is possible to make a simpler device that works very much like a zero-crossing detector . |
| 25 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 26 | But it is possible to change , actually to alter your food preferences , to learn to enjoy exercise , and to achieve an appropriate body weight . |
| 27 | But it is possible to work with people who have had no previous experience of teaching or drama . |
| 28 | But it is possible to have a covenant which lasts for a longer period , provided that the period is specified in the Deed . |
| 29 | Most people only have shingles once in a lifetime but it is possible to have it several times . |
| 30 | But it is possible to reduce salt consumption further by ‘ placing the salt shaker at some distance from the table ’ . |