Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Having thus identified the right way to do the job and explained why it was not practically possible for Owen to adopt it , they then proceed to attack the substance of his proposal . |
| 3 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 4 | It was not quite possible to communicate the horror of examination by McCarthy . |
| 5 | On the other hand , if for her the impossible was not merely possible , not merely probable but certain , she destroyed the route to wonder that might have enhanced her living days . |
| 6 | He said the feasibility study would seek to prove that laser welding was not only possible in a subsea environment , but would also lead to substantial improvements and cost savings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Double staining with CD25 and CD3 showed that many of the T lymphocytes were activated , though it was not technically possible to count these . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As one of the Ultra team you will recall that precise statistics of our own losses was not always possible . |
| 12 | He had to translate early botanical , English , Scots and Gaelic names into their modern botanical equivalents , although it was not always possible to be precise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 16 | Unlike some of his most distinguished contemporaries , the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is reputed to have found the whole process of recording totally congenial , offering the possibility to refine interpretations in a manner which was not always possible in the white-heat surroundings of the concert hall . |
| 17 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 18 | And Rome insisted that the ritual occur in a consecrated church — which , given the relatively few churches in the country at the time and their tendency to be congregated in certain areas , was not always possible in Ireland . |
| 19 | : Due to constraints on the availability of data pads it was not always possible to obtain test data from the original source . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In some areas , such as social policy , it was not always possible to develop meaningful output measures . |
| 23 | For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient . |
| 24 | It was n't always possible , but when the long winter vacations of his university came , it was hard , if not impossible to resist . |
| 25 | ‘ We tried to find visiting times which were suitable for the teachers concerned as well as the Subject Assessor , but it was n't always possible ’ . |
| 26 | It was n't humanly possible . |
| 27 | But Cleo wrote letters though it was n't humanly possible that she should . |
| 28 | in December so it was n't actually possible to sort out these these queries . |
| 29 | 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 . |