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Example sentences for "when possible"

  • Efforts should therefore be directed, when possible, to ensure a soft state of the cervix before performing rapid dilatation.

  • When possible, a tampon canula is inserted into the lower part of the trachea.

  • When possible, it is always preferable to operate under a general anæsthetic, such as gas and oxygen.

  • When possible, they would burn the county court-houses, jails, and other public buildings, with the books and records of the counties.

  • When possible to obtain it, anthracite coal was burned, and when running into port all lights were turned out and the steam blown off under water.

  • Regulations provided that captured and abandoned property should be rented and the proceeds devoted to the purchase of supplies for the blacks, who, when possible, were to be employed as laborers.

  • The action of these remedies should be promoted by the copious use of diluents (particularly saline water), and exertion in the open air, when possible.

  • In all cases the evaporation should be conducted at a very gentle heat, and, when possible, finished over sulphuric acid, or in vacuo.

  • Employ, when possible, water which has been already distilled from off the same substances, and has thus become saturated with oil.

  • When possible, hydraulic pressure should be employed to express the tincture, 2 oz.

  • The creditor should see, when possible, that the debtor suffers no loss by occasion of the compensation.

  • Confessors should urge restitution even of small amounts, when possible, in order to deter men from theft, and it may sometimes be useful to require children to seek a condonation from their parents for a similar reason.

  • Plates are removed from the right when possible.

  • In table service lessons, it is advisable to have the pupils not only plan and cook foods but, when possible, buy them.

  • When possible, use the simmering burner rather than the regular or giant burner.

  • When possible, lithographic sketches of the machines, or the elements of the machines, which ought to enter into the course, are distributed among the pupils.

  • Although it is quite correct to select positions for night outposts during daylight, when possible, they should never be definitely occupied by the company before dark, when the forward movement could not be observed by the enemy.

  • When possible, these drills should be held in the morning about two hours after breakfast, and at no time should they be held immediately before or after a meal.

  • It is, however, extremely important that the patrols should get to know their way about the country in front during the daylight, when possible, so that they will have some practice in recognizing land marks by night.

  • As with diseased structures elsewhere, the most rational treatment, when possible, is that of excision.

  • When possible, however, it is better to combine the thinning process thus described with turning out to grass.

  • When possible, by far the better way of accomplishing this will be to wholly immerse the foot in a tub of cold antiseptic solution, and keep it there for an hour three times daily.

  • When possible to avoid it, a field battery should not be opposed to a battery of position, or, generally, a battery of light guns to one of heavy guns.

  • But, in such case, the charge should be prepared, when possible, by a few shells, or rounds of canister.

  • Nevertheless, our actual attack should be prepared, when possible, by the infliction of such a loss on the enemy as will make him inferior to us at the decisive moment.

  • Better still, when possible, use a Standard Oil oil heater and boiler, and have hot water pipe connections.

  • When possible a crib for beginners is a very desirable thing to have.

  • To ship by boat and not by rail, when possible, also saves money.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when possible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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