Example sentences of "can [adv] possibly [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They ca n't possibly expect an answer . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You must have so much to talk about that you ca n't possibly want a stranger , ’ said Julia . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't possibly bring a woman along . |
| 4 | ‘ So you ca n't possibly do the programme ? ’ |
| 5 | For I assure you that people who do not travel ( I mean those who cultivate the arts and learning ) are indeed miserable creatures ; and I protest that unless the Archbishop allows me to travel every second year , I ca n't possibly accept the engagement . |
| 6 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 7 | A religion can not possibly serve the world if it can be understood only by people who have been especially educated . |
| 8 | She had always sworn to herself that she would never impose on her daughter 's marriage 2. ) but she knows now that she can not possibly decline an invitation to spend the rest of her days at her son-in-law 's house . |
| 9 | Yet one also fees that the race itself is too insubstantial to bear the weight of this titanic myth , that ten seconds can not possibly represent the interface between the life before and the life afterwards . |
| 10 | However , there is a different form of uncertainty that can not possibly help the theist 's case , and that is uncertainty about what is meant by talking about God . |
| 11 | Many people now regard the sending of flowers to a funeral as an inexcusable waste of money , arguing that since they can not possibly help the deceased , it is better to help the living . |
| 12 | If you feel that you can not possibly win a competition as , |
| 13 | A Georgian TV source said : ‘ We can not possibly afford the money Linfield are asking . |
| 14 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 15 | Applying the opposite rudder can not possibly cause the spin to reverse as is sometimes stated , unless the pilot is keeping the stick right back . |
| 16 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 17 | I can not possibly reveal the name of the alleged culprit , because at the time of going to press he 's taken a well-deserved holiday in the ardeche from his climbing wall company |