Example sentences of "not possible [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly it is not possible to negotiate if a client has clear rights in a situation .
2 To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident .
3 Where it is not possible to effect prompt personal service , service may be effected by other means such as post or insertion through a letter box ( Practice Direction , 18 December 1986 , ( 1987 ) 1 All ER 604 ) .
4 If , as Parsons puts it , there can never be an id-impulse as such for the individual , since it must always be seen as part of the expressive symbolism of a common culture , then it is not possible to envisage the possibility of someone being in conflict with their society 's common culture .
5 It is an integral part of modern culture that it is simply not possible to envisage a model of freedom , including that abstraction needed for the achievement of equality , which would not have as one of its component parts the tendency towards alienation .
6 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 .
7 It is not possible to describe all these stages fully here but others have done so elsewhere ( Fogarty , 1985 ; Neugarten , 1968 ) .
8 It is not possible to describe a suitable treatment for every type of window and there is no such thing as a standard window , since two identical windows located in a different position on a wall may need quite a different treatment .
9 Because twin gables flanking a central valley gutter had been adopted to cap the elevation of the 1922 extension , it was not possible to form an upper storey in this section .
10 It 's simply not possible to form an opinion on it . ’
11 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 .
12 It is not possible to use Carboniferous shale velocity data for inversion estimates because regionally continuous homogeneous shale sections are not recognised .
13 The conclusion seems justified , but owing to the problems of transmission of these works of Scaevola , it is not possible to use it as a conclusion for classical law .
14 For this reason of re-programming , it is not possible to use the Form area of the E6000 's program when working with very large designs .
15 To reach structures deep within the brain it is not possible to use external landmarks , like folds in the cortex , directly .
16 Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level .
17 Therefore , it is not possible to use this condition to argue that a future is underpriced , only that it is overpriced .
18 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 .
19 I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related .
20 It was recognised that it was not possible to use the ballot results to decide on the continuation of the campaign .
21 And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years .
22 In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict .
23 Having made a credit agreement , it is usually not possible to cancel it .
24 Without this knowledge , it is not possible to decide on the people to interview , in which order they should be interviewed , and the level and subject matter of the questions to ask .
25 Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not .
26 Generally , it is not possible to act for both a buyer and a seller , for their interests vary .
27 However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search .
28 Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants .
29 However , it appears that most ventures are characterized by investments in a project where the uncertainty is so great that it is not possible to evaluate it by means of ordinary criteria for analysis of projects .
30 On agriculturally unimproved moorlands it is not easy to exceed the maximum stocking density ( 6 sheep/hectare ) for HLCAs because it is often not possible to support more than 2 per hectare .
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