Example sentences of "it is possible for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In a small school it is possible for everyone to start their different distances together .
2 But it is she who has created an atmosphere in which it is possible for her most senior minister to be publicly rubbished while she escapes without blemish or stain .
3 Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will .
4 He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people .
5 Once a scientist has universal laws and theories at his disposal , it is possible for him to derive from them various consequences that serve as explanations and predictions .
6 Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress .
7 Low-rise houses , on the contrary , can be improved and extended by their occupants as and when it is possible for them to do so .
8 It is possible for them ( or for you on their behalf ) to make application direct to the social services department .
9 Members of congress , by contrast , enjoy great power without responsibility ; it is possible for them to wallow in carping criticism and to engage in other negative tactics free from the anxiety of ever having to shoulder the responsibility for government — a burden that the president can not escape .
10 When their control is threatened it is possible for them to obtain relief by displacing a prominently misbehaving pupil .
11 I hesitate to use adjectives as to what they would be like if they did n't spend at that level , but we believe it is possible for them to do so and there is something wrong with their spending levels if they do n't do it .
12 If however a special diet has been recommended by the doctor , you should of course see that it is possible for her to adhere strictly to this , and if she is amongst those who enjoy various products from Health Food shops she should not be criticised for having fads .
13 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 .
14 While property which is vacant can resume its last lawful planning use , it is possible for there to be no use , in which case any new activity will require consent .
15 The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ .
16 Sometimes proportionality can be very close indeed but it is possible for there to be divergences from strict proportionality for the reasons explained above .
17 It is possible for there to be unrestricted-use three party debtor-creditor-supplier agreements , but the requirements are more exacting as seen under s12 ( c ) : an unrestricted-use credit agreement which is made by the creditor under pre-existing arrangements between himself and a person ( the " supplier " ) other than the debtor in the knowledge that the credit is to be used to finance a transaction between the debtor and the supplier .
18 Conversely , it is possible for our physical state to influence our moods , behaviour patterns and , in extreme cases , our sanity .
19 There are some solutions of the equations of general relativity in which it is possible for our astronaut to see a naked singularity : he may be able to avoid hitting the singularity and instead fall through a " wormhole " and come out in another region of the universe .
20 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 .
21 Gettier argued that they show the tripartite account to be insufficient ; it is possible for someone not to know even when all the three clauses are satisfied .
22 Under section 23 , however , it is possible for someone who is not a trader to be convicted .
23 Then we need to see that as Jesus prayed for it , it is possible for it to occur !
24 We must show that it is possible for it to be both a resultant … and a totalizing force … how it can continually bring about the unity of dispersive profusion and integration .
25 At this time of year , mid-Autumn , the snow has usually not arrived in Tromsø and it is possible for you to have the hills to yourself in Tromsdalen or , better , in Lyngen , but this year there was already a metre of the stuff down at sea level .
26 It is possible for you to insure against loss of income through disablement or illness , but not against redundancy .
27 It is possible for you to gain the former ( knowledge of Napoleon III 's rule , for instance ) and not the latter ( appreciating the various factors in his rise to power , the expansionist nature of his economic policy and the paternalism of his social policy , etc .
28 BELVILLE : Do you think it is possible for you to love me preferably to any other of my sex ?
29 It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner .
30 It is possible for us to do it — we carried out one test in France — but it is very expensive . ’
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