Example sentences of "not always possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm now we did n't er it 's not always possible to do that . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Funding being limited , it is not always possible to purchase foreign maps with Scottish associations or simply to fill gaps in the collection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , it is not always possible to arrange visits to particular departments on particular days . |
| 12 | It is not always possible to answer post by return , or to return telephone calls within the next few minutes . |
| 13 | First , it is not always possible to test rational expectations per se , but only jointly with other , supplementary assumptions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In science it is not always possible to find one theory which accounts for and describes every aspect of an event . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For example , it is not always possible to get moss to thrive , in which case dwarf cover plants can be substituted . |
| 20 | Thereafter they practised together , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of the father from that of the son . |
| 21 | Thereafter they practised together until the latter 's death in 1852 , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of one from that of the other . |
| 22 | It is not always possible to distinguish these two planning processes in experiments , particularly in considering pauses . |
| 23 | However , the TNC-dominated export industries tend to employ more women than men.The reasons for this have stimulated a great deal of argument and it is not always possible to generalize cross-culturally . |
| 24 | Although it is not always possible to match jobs perfectly with aptitude , use should be made of the strength and expertise of senior staff in the jobs to which they are best suited ; their enthusiasm will spread to assistants and a higher level of general motivation will result . |
| 25 | This means that the individual items in each notebook can rarely be dated with any precision and that notes in one notebook may , and often do , presuppose plans in another ; even within single notebooks it is not always possible to determine whether items in a sequence belong together . |
| 26 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 27 | In some areas , such as social policy , it was not always possible to develop meaningful output measures . |
| 28 | It is not always possible to deliver a module just at the time a trainee needs it for the purposes of SVQ assessment . |
| 29 | The latter requirement holds no difficulty , rather it is the former requirement which gives rise to difficulties because on occasions odour problems are complex , the source of the odour being difficult to identify , and it is not always possible to know whether or not a particular method of abatement will effect a cure in any given case . |
| 30 | : Due to constraints on the availability of data pads it was not always possible to obtain test data from the original source . |