Example sentences of "[adv] be not possible " in BNC.

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1 The least favourable reports are on systems which only partially embrace signing or fingerspelling , and systems based on fingerspelling alone are not possible unless speech is slowed down considerably .
2 ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman .
3 Prior to the invention of photocopying machines , the preparation of an epitome of title in the way described above was not possible , and this meant that abstracts of title had to be created by our predecessors , who were in fact charged with the duty of tracing title back over 30 or 40 years or more .
4 It just was not possible .
5 That an " external " identification strictly is not possible is due to the fact that such an existent in respect of its characteristic mode of being is not object-like .
6 When a sea or large lake is polluted , then , it often is not possible to identify precisely the main sources of the pollution , or to predict the effects of any particular preventive measure .
7 ( c ) if a shut out is not possible , the make-up of the target 's shareholder list with particular emphasis on blocks held by directors and their families , the company 's advisers and their clients , institutions , employee-shareholders and others who may have some influence on the company ;
8 Addressing a press conference in Paris on Jan. 17 , Sharif said that Pakistan had not requested a nuclear plant , which had been promised by France during a visit to Pakistan by French President François Mitterrand in February 1990 , as it involved accepting " comprehensive safeguards which for Pakistan today is not possible " .
9 This might have been a drawback of such accounts but for the fact that linguistic accounts understood in accord with the current consensus among analytic philosophers either are not possible or lack any philosophical interest .
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