Example sentences of "[was/were] not possible [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when it was not possible to squeeze another inch from the land do they stop , allowing the coarse heather to take hold on the steep cliffs . |
| 2 | Our study was retrospective and because the quality of general practitioners ' records varies and most records are destroyed after a patient dies , it was not possible to include such patients in our study . |
| 3 | It was not possible to do that . |
| 4 | It was not possible to do this without assuming that dreamwork transformations took place . |
| 5 | In England these were the buyers of boroughs and seats in Parliament , and although it was not possible to do this in Scotland , as there were never any ‘ rotten boroughs ’ in the English sense , those who arranged and meddled in the burgh elections were called ‘ Boroughmongers ’ after the English traffickers in boroughs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches . |
| 8 | This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents . |
| 9 | After the war it was not possible to maintain national service statistics on the earlier scale , but medical records of school children did provide a comparable measure of national health and fitness . |
| 10 | However , it was not possible to get any quadraphonic effect from the record , no matter which system was tried . |
| 11 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 12 | ‘ It became clear that it was not possible to achieve desirable social change in the Third World by treating people as if they were isolated objects , living outside a social context . ’ |
| 13 | During this time it was not possible to determine oesophageal bicarbonate outputs by the pH/pCO 2 method as the pH was below 6.1 . |
| 14 | Amid much rumour and mystery , the consequence of a complete news black-out by the authorities on the circumstances of the pending releases , it was not possible to obtain independent confirmation of the report . |
| 15 | Clearly , within available resources it was not possible to contact all adult applicants and enquirers about all courses in Scottish colleges and universities . |
| 16 | With every nerve attuned to him it simply was n't possible to lie still . |
| 17 | It was n't possible to go all the way to the road on one 's knees : the undergrowth was too thick , the saplings in places too close together . |
| 18 | Valentin ( the manager ) said he thought it was n't possible to do that honestly , and showed him ‘ Answers ’ by Josh MacDowell , about the lack of mistakes in the Bible , and the boy bought it . |