Example sentences of "[was/were] not possible [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not possible to transcend the anecdotal because the structure of the INSET programme was not sufficiently supportive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this case it was not possible to explore the effects of different levels of risk on recognition of different exemplars of the same junction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not possible to give a home to all , so how could he pick out one or two ? |
| 8 | Of these 123 , a full interview was obtained with l04 principal carers at the time of the patient 's referral to the project ( six carers refused to be interviewed , and it was not possible to interview a further nine for reasons such as the carer 's ill health or death or because the patient and carer soon moved out of the area ; for the remaining four some information was obtained by telephone ) . |
| 9 | In fact , it was not possible to stop the intervention completely since Olwyn had come to look forward very much to a bedtime story from her father , and to getting stars . |
| 10 | As mentioned above , it was not possible to perform a detailed study of the Ca 2 + sensitivity of K + channels in excised inside out patches . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was recognised that it was not possible to use the ballot results to decide on the continuation of the campaign . |
| 13 | Despite quite lengthy direct discussions and several side meetings with the Chairman , it was not possible to progress the issue . |
| 14 | In the event the Court of Appeal came to the conclusion that it was not possible to support the judge 's findings based on the absence of agency but equally were unable , on the judge 's findings , to come to a conclusion on the issue of undue influence . |
| 15 | Of course it was not possible to devise a service that would be all things to all people : some of the needs would be inconsistent with others , some were already being addressed in other projects , some were less crucial . |
| 16 | One other patient had died but , regrettably , it was not possible to trace the record of her cause of death . |
| 17 | We used enemas when it was not possible to utilise the enteral lavage . |
| 18 | Given the lack of expertise amongst members of the Senior Management Team in the teaching of Art , he regretted that it was not possible to involve the LEA Art Inspector in the review . |
| 19 | ( Furthermore with the LISP system available to the current project it was not possible to store a very large lexicon — necessitating morphological processing to reduce storage . |
| 20 | It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol . |
| 21 | since most newspapers favoured the Government 's position , it was not possible to get a ‘ balanced ’ view of the dispute ; |
| 22 | With Scales and Sergeant Conway he was driven to the end of Salvation Street , where the footpath led to the headland ; it was not possible to get a vehicle any nearer . |
| 23 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | It was not possible to expect the group to act with ‘ responsible autonomy ’ — to be self-regulating — because of the elaborate division of labour . |
| 25 | It was not possible to ascertain the extent to which DNs are influenced by , or exert an influence upon , doctors in making joint decisions ; nor to assess the wisdom of these decisions . |
| 26 | From our necessarily limited number of simulations , it was not possible to establish the threshold concentration of CO 2 at which the probability of an ozone hole increases . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The tasks of the CSSU staff were poorly defined , and it was not possible to achieve a high level of identification with the organisation . |
| 29 | Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands . |
| 30 | It was not possible to seek an alternative faith in China or Greece . |