Example sentences of "not [adv] possible [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until a prototype is produced it is , in any case , not usually possible to define the load parameters to sufficient accuracy to justify a more detailed study . |
| 2 | As the brochure on the procedure in these cases explains it is not always possible to conclude a claim as quickly as you or I would like . |
| 3 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 4 | The answer , of course , is to drill a hole , but it is not always possible to find a drill to suit the nails you are using . |
| 5 | It is not always possible to find a suitable theta-solvent for a polymer and methods have been developed which allow unperturbed dimensions to be estimated in non-ideal ( good ) solvents . |
| 6 | Thereafter they practised together , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of the father from that of the son . |
| 7 | Thereafter they practised together until the latter 's death in 1852 , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of one from that of the other . |
| 8 | It is not always possible to deliver a module just at the time a trainee needs it for the purposes of SVQ assessment . |
| 9 | Selkirk … . 16 Boroughmuir .. 9 EVEN with three replacements permissible it is not always possible to cover the loss of a key player , as Boroughmuir discovered when suffering their third defeat in four years at the hands of Selkirk , this time by a 16-9 margin . |
| 10 | But with central heating , it is now not always possible to provide an ideal plunging environment within the home . |
| 11 | It is not always possible to offer every type of room mentioned in accommodation descriptions with all the flights advertised . |
| 12 | It is not always possible to measure the gamma dose rate at exactly the spot where a sample for dating is found , since the excavation of the sample will have removed much of the material surrounding it . |
| 13 | Often as not fry have to be removed from their parents for any number of reasons and if a bare tank is used in which to grow them on , it is not always possible to have a suitable filter on hand to use in an emergency . |
| 14 | It 's not always possible to have a mother and a father . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the survival of tax records from the middle years of the century ( and more especially after 1450 ) is more patchy than from the period immediately before , so it is not always possible to trace the disappearance of villages at precisely the time when a substantial number of the desertions seems to have occurred . |
| 16 | ‘ The conviction against Mr McPhee will stand , but it is not legally possible to take the case any further so he will not be sentenced . ’ |
| 17 | For this reason it is not often possible to achieve a reduction in space requirement by using an inverted file . |
| 18 | It is not now possible to refer the rent to the Rent Officer to fix a Fair Rent . |
| 19 | It 's not now possible to identify the fissures from which each of these thousands of lava flows were erupted , but it is likely that each was produced by an eruption broadly similar to that of the Laki fissure . |
| 20 | It was not quite possible to communicate the horror of examination by McCarthy . |
| 21 | He says , I remain concerned that it is not yet possible to agree an implementation plan for recommendations made in his previous report . |
| 22 | He then went on to say it 's not actually possible to control the rate of migration and I 'm sure that the the s success of of the policy in the past shows that that that is not the case . |
| 23 | It is not therefore possible to publish a programme for the Academic Link scheme . |