Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] not possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lagos State , controlled by the Unity party of Nigeria ( UPN ) , now has its own television station on the air , but in early 1981 it was still not possible to watch this new state television service in central Lagos . |
| 4 | Under such unfavourable circumstances it was clearly not possible to pursue the Youth Allyah dream of creating a genuine community and to run it on democratic lines like a Kibbutz . |
| 5 | It was also not possible to correlate the motility of the exercise periods durng the recording as patients were not subjected to any strenuous form of exercise during the recordings . |
| 6 | National rivalries were all the more intense and confused in these districts precisely because it was often not possible to tell who was which nationality , or where a person 's loyalties lay . |
| 7 | It was therefore not possible to predict , on the basis of patient characteristics , those who would develop cardiac arrhythmias . |