Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] not possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just on one of the points er made by Professor Lock erm who was arguing that it it basically was n't possible to include an agricultural land quality criterion er in the exceptions policy because there was so much good land in North Yorkshire . |
| 2 | ‘ But there were occasions when it just was n't possible to get time off to meet her , especially during vital periods such as haymaking . |
| 3 | While it still was n't possible to discern Noel James 's lyrics as they 're growled into the microphone , the music had a n edge to it that was missing from their Teesside Poly gig . |
| 4 | With every nerve attuned to him it simply was n't possible to lie still . |
| 5 | There were such reams of documents that it simply was n't possible to read them all . |