Example sentences of "[was/were] hardly possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such direct methods were hardly possible except with the backing of military power . |
| 2 | It was hardly possible to understand the effects of removing the ovaries until ovarian hormones had been purified and shown to produce effects comparable to those seen at puberty . |
| 3 | But as Spencer observes wryly , he was lucky there was n't a fire , though that was hardly possible without fuel … . |
| 4 | Weir quickly got wind of the plan to remove him and discussed the matter with the bailie , James Graham , and the latter had to agree that there was no blame which could be attached to Weir 's conduct beyond his recent irregular attendance , but it was hardly possible for a court to function without a prosecutor , and although Weir was going to have to go , James Graham insisted that ‘ it should be done in the most decent manner and almost with his own consent ’ . |
| 5 | But since marriage was entered into for reasons of social , political and financial convenience it was hardly possible to celebrate love except outside it . |
| 6 | To make a profession out of psychical research was hardly possible , even though by the 1880s there were career structures in more-established sciences . |
| 7 | She did not rage so much against Aunt Emily but more at herself for being so naive as to agree to and promote a plan that any less raw and unworldly creature than herself would have seen was hardly possible . |
| 8 | Deduction at source was hardly possible with other than government employees , nor on the recipients of rents and interest , but Addington 's division of his tax into five schedules , A to E , was not only a major step in the direction of obtaining accurate assessments but remained the basis of income taxation into our own time . |
| 9 | ‘ That was hardly possible , ’ Woodruffe said . |