Example sentences of "was [adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In view of the plan to get rid of a large chunk of the assets , it was not possible to say what the net cost of the investment would be , he added . |
| 32 | Only when it was not possible to squeeze another inch from the land do they stop , allowing the coarse heather to take hold on the steep cliffs . |
| 33 | Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants . |
| 34 | For a variety of reasons it was not possible to hold interviews with members of the music and drama departments , or with any representative of the senior management . |
| 35 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 36 | Hodgson also expressed the belief that it was not possible to predict which two countries would go to America for the World Cup finals next year . |
| 37 | In this case it was not possible to explore the effects of different levels of risk on recognition of different exemplars of the same junction . |
| 38 | Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things . |
| 39 | There were two easels , one with an unfinished picture of a town and the other holding a painting on a large canvas , but it was not possible to see it . |
| 40 | Both door and window were curtained so that it was not possible to see inside . |
| 41 | It was not possible to confirm brain stem death in this patient because of potentially reversible metabolic disturbances . |
| 42 | Because twin gables flanking a central valley gutter had been adopted to cap the elevation of the 1922 extension , it was not possible to form an upper storey in this section . |
| 43 | It was not possible to compare the 26-way tree , reduced memory tree and trie directly with the dawg because the word lists used in the earlier experiments were no longer available . |
| 44 | British Rail argued long and hard that it was not possible to open it . |
| 45 | Our study was retrospective and because the quality of general practitioners ' records varies and most records are destroyed after a patient dies , it was not possible to include such patients in our study . |
| 46 | Descent was traced in the female line because when pairing was temporary and informal , it was not possible to reckon it in any other way , as one could only be sure of the identity of the mother of the child , not that of the father . |
| 47 | It was not possible to confirmthat the immunoreactive signal in serum was due to APGPR but the immunoreactive signal in urine coeluted with synthetic APGPR . |
| 48 | Now my Lord as is er then made clear in a statement of claim paragraph three fifteen erm between the twenty third of October and about the twenty second of November the plaintiff then acting upon the advice of Peter that it was not possible to withdraw on this contract , did endeavour to complete upon the deal as soon as possible , very much with the timing in his mind and eventually after some toing and froing which er will be demonstrated in the course of the evidence , agreement was reached with the landlord for his consent to the assignment to be given er on condition that there was payment of some advance rent by the plaintiff . |
| 49 | It was not possible to ask her questions . |
| 50 | She was such a heroine in her own way because it was not possible to give her the attention and comfort she deserved yet she never complained . |
| 51 | It was not possible to give a home to all , so how could he pick out one or two ? |
| 52 | Of these 123 , a full interview was obtained with l04 principal carers at the time of the patient 's referral to the project ( six carers refused to be interviewed , and it was not possible to interview a further nine for reasons such as the carer 's ill health or death or because the patient and carer soon moved out of the area ; for the remaining four some information was obtained by telephone ) . |
| 53 | In fact , it was not possible to stop the intervention completely since Olwyn had come to look forward very much to a bedtime story from her father , and to getting stars . |
| 54 | It was not possible to do that . |
| 55 | It was not possible to do this without assuming that dreamwork transformations took place . |
| 56 | In England these were the buyers of boroughs and seats in Parliament , and although it was not possible to do this in Scotland , as there were never any ‘ rotten boroughs ’ in the English sense , those who arranged and meddled in the burgh elections were called ‘ Boroughmongers ’ after the English traffickers in boroughs . |
| 57 | It was not possible to put together a written record of the work we did not displays at the July ‘ 81 Q.T. Day , as some sections ’ notes ( 1st & 2nd Ball groups , 2nd Club group ) were never received . |
| 58 | As mentioned above , it was not possible to perform a detailed study of the Ca 2 + sensitivity of K + channels in excised inside out patches . |
| 59 | At this stage you will notice that no attempt has been made to count the words as it was not possible to use the macro record facility for this operation . |
| 60 | I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related . |