Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] possibly [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 2 | She wept softly , while he held her and believed in the augury that this happiness could not possibly end in death on a battlefield , for such an end would be against all that was good and sweet and lovely in the world . |
| 3 | All who have given thought to the matter agree that an apparatus as complex as the human eye could not possibly come into existence through single-step selection . |
| 4 | You 've talked about fairly large distances , distances that you could n't possibly measure with tape measures and using normal methods of measurement , how on earth do you know these distances are the kind you describe ? |
| 5 | At last she had managed to persuade Miss Taylor that she could n't possibly stay for lunch , that she and Fen planned to picnic while he worked . |
| 6 | A celibate can not possibly imagine without sin ( in which there is no parvitas materiae ) what sexual intercourse is like , and is therefore hardly well placed to judge the psychological effects of artificial contraception . |