Example sentences of "not [adv] possible [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Cases ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , involving chelating and bridging ligands , lead to slightly reduced frequencies for both bond stretches , down to about 1500 cm -1 for and about 900 cm -1 for , and it is not usually possible to distinguish them in this way .
2 There was , however , published evidence to suggest that library and resource centre provision should be combined , at least in management terms , even if it was not always possible to bring them together physically .
3 Another problem with the method of Riemann is that it is not practically possible to generalize it to the case for non-colinear collisions .
4 If the charge of hypocrisy can be raised against the latter , is it not also possible to raise it against the former ?
5 The ASB discussion paper , Accounting for capital instruments , recognises that although convertible debt has some equity features , it is not legally possible to show it as equity without invoking the true and fair override or to put mezzanine finance in a separate category on the balance sheet ( ie to provide an item in the formats to cover debt that is akin to equity and equity that is akin to debt ) .
6 On the contrary he strode in , rubbing his hands and making it clear that he , too , would like a piece of venison , and he being Bodo it was not really possible to refuse him .
7 So not only is it unwise to try to group patients , in terms of syndromes , it is not even possible to group them in terms of symptoms — that is , even a set of patients all showing the same symptom may not be homogeneous even with respect to that symptom .
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