Example sentences of "[is] [adv] not possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denote this intervention by X. In the case of agriculture , biology , medicine and even psychology , formal laboratory or field experiments can usually be done ; in the social sciences this is generally not possible but a good survey can often be thought of in quasi-experimental terms . |
| 2 | It is thus not possible to tell whether the significance of the laterality effect observed was due to " same " and/or " different " trials . |
| 3 | Each unit represents a wide range of investments , spreading the risk to an extent that 's normally not possible for an individual investor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 6 | At present , this is just not possible in the vast majority of NHS hospitals , because the quality of management information systems is so poor . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | As I have already said , some say that planning is just not possible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The knee mechanism is very complicated and I 'm afraid that a perfect recovery after major surgery is just not possible . |
| 12 | Much more data are collected than it is possible to publish , and access to this additional information is just not possible — indeed its existence may not be known or recorded , with the result that future researchers and revisers have to go through the whole data collection procedure again each time . |
| 13 | ‘ It is just not possible . |
| 14 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 15 | Of course , that 's just not possible . ’ |
| 16 | No , they 're too idle , expecting others to do as they demand ; it 's just not possible . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just not possible for me to pack a briefcase and go and stay in a Hilton somewhere looking for business and agents . |
| 18 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 20 | I have tried to change him , but it 's just not possible . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's just not possible , Adolph , ’ she said . |
| 22 | It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 23 | In a real world where you face managerial decisions and you have to make a decision , you can do one thing or a number of other things , but you ca n't do them all at once , it 's just not possible . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | They were n't terribly popular , I do n't think , because of course , the women were used to a personalized fit , and when you get , start getting mass production like that , then obviously a lot of the very good fitting garments that , I mean that 's just not possible . |
| 26 | Ideally the dwelling should be unoccupied and empty of furniture and floor coverings , although this is usually not possible . |
| 27 | Having made a credit agreement , it is usually not possible to cancel it . |
| 28 | The pipette shield furthermore enables the operator to view the pipetting operation at eye height , which is usually not possible using conventional shields . |
| 29 | During the past few decades , many academic psychologists have studied the phenomenon but it is still not possible to say exactly what hypnosis is . |
| 30 | However , it is still not possible to be certain about world sea levels before the last quarter of a million years . |