Sentence examples for have been possible to avoid from inspiring English sources

"As a result, we lost precious time after the ship ran aground in which it might have been possible to avoid the spill altogether".

Though it might have been impossible to prevent the 9/11 attacks, it would have been possible to avoid what's happening in Iraq now had anyone heeded the past.

So by simply waiting until 2011 to make gifts, it might have been possible to avoid gift tax altogether.

So it turned out that by simply waiting until 2011 to make gifts, it might have been possible to avoid gift tax altogether.

Being informed about the good treatment that exists today and about the parents not having been able to prevent their child from getting T1DM was very important as they immediately got feelings of guilt and wondered if the onset would have been possible to avoid.

This is true, since in such a case it would have been possible to avoid the first generating operation in E S (transforming x to x′), as well as all mutation operations over a reduced letter in x i, and the reducing operation from u i  to u i +1.

However, in the genetic research of psychiatric disorders, it has been possible to avoid the analysis problems by focusing on a specific region.

It may not have been possible to prevent the floods, but we can avoid a food crisis if help is given to families now".

Link and Cullen have demonstrated that it is possible to avoid social desirability responses by tapping into a deeper level of attitudes reflective of the ambient culture by asking respondents to indicate how they think 'most people' would respond.

A subcommittee of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board (2000) has opined that, "[a]lthough it is possible to avoid conflict of interest, avoidance of bias is probably not possible.

(National Academies 2001) Similarly, a U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board committee has stated that [a]lthough it is possible to avoid conflict of interest, avoidance of bias is probably not possible.