Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not possible to describe the whole service , how it fits into the Institute 's structure , and its relationship with the chartered accountants ' Joint Ethics Committee within the constraints of one short article . |
| 2 | It was not possible to confirmthat the immunoreactive signal in serum was due to APGPR but the immunoreactive signal in urine coeluted with synthetic APGPR . |
| 3 | At this stage you will notice that no attempt has been made to count the words as it was not possible to use the macro record facility for this operation . |
| 4 | Although it is the case that many of Freud 's speculations were mistaken , something he half , if not fully , expected would happen within biology , it is not possible to ignore the other aspects of the death-instinct theory which have an application within psychoanalysis , and its extension into sociology . |
| 5 | It is not possible to explain the vast structure of institutions to which we assign the name of property as the expression , the means of satisfaction , of man 's desire for physical objects . |
| 6 | It was not possible to compare the 26-way tree , reduced memory tree and trie directly with the dawg because the word lists used in the earlier experiments were no longer available . |
| 7 | However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion . |
| 8 | It is not possible to predict the unimaginable . |
| 9 | Whilst it is not possible to fool the private sector repeatedly , issues of credibility and the extent of discretion are important . |
| 10 | At about the time the new clock was commissioned , I became seriously ill with a heart condition , and it proved not possible to undertake the extensive research required to faithfully replicate the old clock . |
| 11 | As virtually all H pylori infected subjects have active chronic gastritis which precedes the development of atrophic changes , it is not possible to assess the direct effect of H pylori infection on acid secretion from that study without knowing which subjects had developed atrophy . |
| 12 | It was not possible to transcend the anecdotal because the structure of the INSET programme was not sufficiently supportive . |
| 13 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 14 | Firstly it is not possible to store the syntactic tag for the whole of the compound within the compound tree . |
| 15 | Mr Chree is proposing that the route be safeguarded from any further developments and that access arrangements be made with landowners on sections of the route where it is not possible to assert the ancient highway as a public right of way . |
| 16 | But , it is equally important that the imagined outcome should not be set as a goal ; it is not possible to imagine the unexpected however rich our imaginations , and so the possible pot of gold is used to justify our involvement . |
| 17 | It is not possible to establish the exact population of Brackley in the middle of the eighteenth century ; however , according to the census of 1801 , there were 1,495 people living in the town [ Baker , 1 , 574 ] . |
| 18 | Compiling such a matrix diagram requires a detailed study of all the records , however , and inevitably there will be some gaps in the diagram where it was not possible to establish the precise relationship between some contexts during the excavation itself . |
| 19 | It is often not possible to distinguish the weakest component , and only the relative intensities ( 9:6 = 3:2 ) serve to distinguish this case from that of a group containing only one chlorine , for which the intensity ratio is 3 : 1 . |
| 20 | For example , the numerator might be a count of people in a postcode sector who have , say , a cancer , yet , because the census and health data are reported for different areal units , it is not possible to find the appropriate at-risk population for the denominator and so compute a reliable incidence ratio . |
| 21 | Though it is not possible to determine the relative roles of revegetation and acidic precipitation from this work along , in conjunction with other studies Renberg et al . |
| 22 | Massive chunks of history are missing and it is really not possible to understand the Abstract Expressionists without reference to how they incorporated or reacted against those earlier tendencies . |
| 23 | Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands . |
| 24 | ( It was not possible to cover the complete range of topics in the Cockcroft foundation list during the project . ) |
| 25 | There must be doubt as to whether the Government fully intended the severity of the monetary squeeze and the massive rise in the real exchange rate that impinged on the economy in those years , but it is not possible to overstate the economic shock that hit industry in 1979–1981 . |
| 26 | Critics of the functionalist base-superstructure distinction argue that law is in fact part of the property relations governing production , so it is not possible to separate the two ( Lukes , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | It is not possible to identify the proportional contributions of student and supervisor to the publication , in terms of information content , but in the case of mapping assignments , it would be logical to assume that the student performed most of the fieldwork , deriving theoretical insights in later discussion with the supervisor and others . |
| 28 | It is not possible to identify the proportional contributions of student and supervisor to the publication , in terms of information content , but in the case of mapping assignments , it would be logical to assume that the student performed most of the fieldwork , deriving theoretical insights in later discussion with the supervisor and others . |
| 29 | So we can write Nominal interest rate = Real interest rate + Expected inflation rate In practice , it is not possible to observe the expected rate of inflation so , for simplicity , the real interest rate is often defined as the nominal interest rate minus the actual inflation rate over a relevant period . |
| 30 | We used enemas when it was not possible to utilise the enteral lavage . |