Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in December so it was n't actually possible to sort out these these queries . |
| 2 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 3 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 4 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 5 | But it was not always possible to do this : the mere facts of topography were against it : and a great number of farms had to be created well away from the village . |
| 6 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 7 | There was , however , published evidence to suggest that library and resource centre provision should be combined , at least in management terms , even if it was not always possible to bring them together physically . |
| 8 | : Due to constraints on the availability of data pads it was not always possible to obtain test data from the original source . |
| 9 | For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient . |
| 10 | In some areas , such as social policy , it was not always possible to develop meaningful output measures . |
| 11 | On the contrary he strode in , rubbing his hands and making it clear that he , too , would like a piece of venison , and he being Bodo it was not really possible to refuse him . |
| 12 | It was not quite possible to communicate the horror of examination by McCarthy . |
| 13 | One patient showed 100% aperistalsis both before and after treatment , and it was not therefore possible to measure amplitude , duration , or velocity of propagation in this patient . |
| 14 | Double staining with CD25 and CD3 showed that many of the T lymphocytes were activated , though it was not technically possible to count these . |
| 15 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 16 | The company , which can send up to 15 tonnes of salmon and 500kgs of scallop meat a week to France , has now halted exports after its French haulier said it was no longer possible to insure the cargo . |
| 17 | Also , it was no longer possible to take it into the Sadler 's Wells repertory , as had been intended . |
| 18 | The reformers , until 1964 mainly outside the House , argued that since the public wished to vote governments in or out of power and since every serious vote had become an issue of confidence , it was no longer possible to restore freer voting in order to improve the independence and power of the House . |
| 19 | For Nizan it was no longer possible to shelter in the protective , disciplined , self-contained environment of school . |
| 20 | As the depression began to affect West Coast loadings it soon became clear that it was no longer possible to sustain the level of service provided in the 1974 Glasgow electric timetable . |
| 21 | Nor , however , did you see the river , and Willis would have to find something else to fill the great gap which would be left in his life when it was no longer possible to see the river traffic , passing and repassing . |
| 22 | It was no longer possible to see the world as developing towards socialism and international harmony . |
| 23 | Following the Rent Act 1974 , once it was no longer possible to use furnished tenancies to avoid the full protection of the Rent Acts , advisers to landlords developed the idea of the " non-exclusive occupation " licence agreement " . |
| 24 | Those citizens unlucky enough to still be alive were swept into the Realm of Chaos , their living bodies melted into the walls of the city itself , so that it was no longer possible to tell man from stone . |
| 25 | During the pre-liberation troubles between India and Goa it was no longer possible to bring men over the frontier , therefore , instead of breaking with tradition , the family ceased to use the palanquins . |
| 26 | In an age in which the Church was living and functioning largely within more or less liberal , democratic societies and in which defence mechanisms such as the Index of forbidden books had ceased effectively to function , it was no longer possible to insulate Catholic society mentally from the world around it . |
| 27 | The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure . |
| 28 | First , he proposed that , since the functions of the state were such that it was no longer possible to impose a unified direction of society from the centre , there was a need for a territorial decentralization of power . |
| 29 | After August 1939 it was no longer possible to have complete faith in a nation state which collaborated for whatever reason with fascism , even if that state happened to be the Soviet Union itself . |
| 30 | It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit . |