Example sentences of "not [adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's it 's not necessarily possible to generate jobs from with within its own boundaries . |
| 2 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 3 | To take a specific example , from the same book SIMULATIONS , It is not only possible to analyse Disneyland as a digest of the American way of life but such an ideological analysis conceals a further order of simulations : " Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the " real " country , all of " real " America , which IS Disneyland … |
| 4 | As an alternative assembly procedure , it is not only possible to attach one model to another but also to declare that this model is inserted into the model space of the other . |
| 5 | Why is it not normally possible to ripen wheat or barley on the uplands ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The reader is also informed that it is not normally possible to obtain high resolution on NMR spectra from solid samples . |
| 8 | Until a prototype is produced it is , in any case , not usually possible to define the load parameters to sufficient accuracy to justify a more detailed study . |
| 9 | Cases ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , involving chelating and bridging ligands , lead to slightly reduced frequencies for both bond stretches , down to about 1500 cm -1 for and about 900 cm -1 for , and it is not usually possible to distinguish them in this way . |
| 10 | Double staining with CD25 and CD3 showed that many of the T lymphocytes were activated , though it was not technically possible to count these . |
| 11 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 12 | There are enormous pressures on the time of the Administration and Commons and it is not always possible to give to Bills the leisured consideration desirable for good drafting and effective debate . |
| 13 | As the brochure on the procedure in these cases explains it is not always possible to conclude a claim as quickly as you or I would like . |
| 14 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm now we did n't er it 's not always possible to do that . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Funding being limited , it is not always possible to purchase foreign maps with Scottish associations or simply to fill gaps in the collection . |
| 19 | For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available . |
| 20 | Although it is not always possible to record all this information in the modelling process , it is necessary to be at least aware of these factors . |
| 21 | However , it is not always possible to arrange visits to particular departments on particular days . |
| 22 | It is not always possible to answer post by return , or to return telephone calls within the next few minutes . |
| 23 | First , it is not always possible to test rational expectations per se , but only jointly with other , supplementary assumptions . |
| 24 | But it is not always possible to state a priori if labour is productive or unproductive , since it is the particular circumstances which determine this . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The answer , of course , is to drill a hole , but it is not always possible to find a drill to suit the nails you are using . |
| 27 | In science it is not always possible to find one theory which accounts for and describes every aspect of an event . |
| 28 | It is not always possible to find a suitable theta-solvent for a polymer and methods have been developed which allow unperturbed dimensions to be estimated in non-ideal ( good ) solvents . |
| 29 | For example , it is not always possible to get moss to thrive , in which case dwarf cover plants can be substituted . |
| 30 | Thereafter they practised together , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of the father from that of the son . |