Example sentences of "[was/were] not possible [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , if it were not possible to refer to different topics of discourse , there would be no occasion for referring to anything as " the same " . |
| 2 | Now my Lord as is er then made clear in a statement of claim paragraph three fifteen erm between the twenty third of October and about the twenty second of November the plaintiff then acting upon the advice of Peter that it was not possible to withdraw on this contract , did endeavour to complete upon the deal as soon as possible , very much with the timing in his mind and eventually after some toing and froing which er will be demonstrated in the course of the evidence , agreement was reached with the landlord for his consent to the assignment to be given er on condition that there was payment of some advance rent by the plaintiff . |
| 3 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 4 | We were aware that , because of the Woolf inquiry , it was not possible to go into great detail into what happpened at Strangeways . |
| 5 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 6 | As a consequence , it was not possible to privatise in a way that put customers ' and consumers ' interests first because the overriding interest was the Conservative Government and ensuring maximum take up . |
| 7 | However , sometimes buyers can be required to give an undertaking to their building society to effect repairs as mentioned above and otherwise undertakings are used as a device to fulfil a commitment that it was not possible to fulfil before the completion date . |
| 8 | There were many things it was not possible to discuss with her mother . |
| 9 | It was not possible to know from the data available whether this was the defendants ' choice or magistrates declining to try them . |
| 10 | But while her novels of this period — The Languages of Love ( 1957 ) , The Sycamore Tree , ( 1958 ) , The Dear Deceit , ( 1960 ) , and The Middlemen ( 1961 ) — are in many respects typical products of their generation , they raise a number of issues which it was not possible to articulate within the parameters of the contemporary debate . |
| 11 | I had already discussed with Roger Penrose the idea of defining a black hole as the set of events from which it was not possible to escape to a large distance , which is now the generally accepted definition . |
| 12 | But it also meant that when I left school at 14 it was not possible to think about finding a job or life away from the farm . |