Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tug lay very still and concentrated on breathing and the voice went on , so softly that it was only just possible to hear it , even though Doyle 's face was right up against his ear . |
| 2 | The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations . |
| 3 | It is thus not possible to tell whether the significance of the laterality effect observed was due to " same " and/or " different " trials . |
| 4 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 5 | As Piaget said himself when reporting his original data , it is just not possible to explain the seven-month-old 's failure to search in terms of memory failure ( that is the baby knows that objects exist unperceived but keeps forgetting that this object went behind there ) because if an organism had a memory this bad it would ipso facto lack object permanence . |
| 6 | Here the bargaining stage has given way to a period of time when you feel it is just not possible to cope with the situation and the future looks bleak . |
| 7 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 8 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 9 | It is just not possible to keep an accident investigation organisation at constant readiness every day and night , high days and holidays , and at the same time guarantee to be able to send investigating teams that are always personally experienced with the particular type of aircraft involved . |
| 10 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 11 | One expert achieved unwanted fame by stating , categorically , that it was no longer technically possible to build modern aircraft out of wood . |
| 12 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 13 | The fact that the London fair is comparatively small ( twenty-nine dealers compared to the eighty or so in New York ) also works in its favour : at this size it is just about possible to look at every print on every stand . |
| 14 | This has made it a little more possible to contemplate a Libertarian Ideal for television , but even more necessary to consider a Public Service Ideal for the press . |
| 15 | During the past few decades , many academic psychologists have studied the phenomenon but it is still not possible to say exactly what hypnosis is . |
| 16 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 17 | Lagos State , controlled by the Unity party of Nigeria ( UPN ) , now has its own television station on the air , but in early 1981 it was still not possible to watch this new state television service in central Lagos . |
| 18 | One of the most elementary and important lessons to be learned from model theory is that , even when we are tightly constrained by external correlations , it is still generally possible to construct a variety of models for a given set of data ( cf. the extremely useful comments on model construction and evaluation in connexion with language in Sternberg , 1963 ) . |
| 19 | Having made a credit agreement , it is usually not possible to cancel it . |
| 20 | It is nonetheless still possible to quote Hawkins ' questions , ( 1981 : 277 ) : |
| 21 | It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit . |
| 22 | Although pressing is easiest whenever there is least rain , because the drier the plant the better it will press , it is still perfectly possible to press specimens all the year round . |
| 23 | But , even with the files at one 's disposal in the Public Record Office , it is still perfectly possible to go astray . |
| 24 | It is well worth keeping a special watch for fossils of this kind when hunting in Cambrian localities — it is still perfectly possible to discover a completely new kind of echinoderm ! |
| 25 | Outside the capital , gigs are rarer , and it is still barely possible to earn a proper living . |
| 26 | In one 's own case it is perhaps always theoretically possible to withhold attention without losing awareness . |
| 27 | It was also not possible to correlate the motility of the exercise periods durng the recording as patients were not subjected to any strenuous form of exercise during the recordings . |
| 28 | Although it is clearly not possible to restore it as a conduit care , the same external effect will be provided by the use of re-chargeable batteries with a replica truck and control gear . |
| 29 | Since recall goes up as precision goes down , it is clearly not possible to achieve a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision . |
| 30 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |