Example sentences of "not be [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |
| 2 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 3 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 4 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 5 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 7 | It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues … |
| 8 | Others have not been able to confirm this association . |
| 9 | Sharing a common cultural and spiritual heritage with a section of the older and more firmly entrenched Liberal Party , Labour simply had not been able to capture sufficient support from the working-class electorate . |
| 10 | Even Switzerland , for many the model for a future federal Europe , has not been able to avoid this trend . |
| 11 | As far as the building itself is concerned , Hulten has not been able to exert much influence on a project conceived some seven years ago , but he professes to be satisfied with the structure , describing it as ‘ generous ’ . |
| 12 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 13 | But many authorities have either not been able to find suitable sites or have not complied with the ruling . |
| 14 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 15 | I have not been able to find any examples of this strategy in my data or in Johns ' data . |
| 16 | A number of assessments argue , for example , that the Department of the Environment has traditionally not been able to provide strategic guidance governing the role and direction of the Programme ( National Audit Office , 1986 ; House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts , 1986b ) . |
| 17 | Local government has not been able to supply clean water from surface sources . |
| 18 | But we have not been able to discover any contact they had in common . ’ |
| 19 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 20 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |
| 21 | Other studies have not been able to reproduce these results . |
| 22 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 23 | They gained little out of the nets in Jamaica and have not been able to face any bowling since Tuesday other than the spinners and gentle medium-pacers . |
| 24 | He had not been able to identify any change over the past 50 years which could be linked with the economic policy of any party . |
| 25 | As a student on Imperial College 's petroleum geology MSc course , Mujadid had to go on a number of field trips during his year in the UK , but had not been able to buy suitable clothes for the British climate back home in Karachi . |
| 26 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 27 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 28 | Clearly , it may not be possible to ingather that information within the time after service and it , therefore , becomes of critical importance that the insurance file has properly identified the witnesses , has detailed statements from them and has all the documentary back-up relevant . |
| 29 | I note what the hon. Gentleman says , but I have to make the point that it will not be possible to keep any design capability , any warship-building capability or any manufacturing capability for the sort of defence components that we need unless the Government are prepared to fund the defence programme at a sensible level . |
| 30 | The danger is that in the ensuing artificial competition it may not be possible to establish some markets at all , and traders would then be forced to use less efficient over-the-counter markets , which are conceivably harder to regulate and thus more prone to fraud . |