Example sentences of "it [was/were] not possible [to-vb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Which was n't possible because Chris was saying it was n't possible to do . |
| 4 | The Trust regrets that after a year of negotiation it was n't possible to assemble a complete package which would have allowed for purchase price , future management and costs for the extended period necessary . |
| 5 | The bossy sister confirmed that it was n't possible to give an address . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was n't possible to have a conversation unless her earphones were connected , but this was the least of her worries at the moment . |
| 8 | It was n't possible to buy wallpaper , but very decorative effects were achieved with government issue distemper by using bi-colour techniques of stippling , ragging , combing and stencilling , which are now popular again . |
| 9 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 10 | I had learned that it was possible , if tedious , to speak of evil , but that it was n't possible to speak clearly of God . |
| 11 | They were still security conscious , but it was n't possible to disguise the progress made on the mast . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was not possible to transcend the anecdotal because the structure of the INSET programme was not sufficiently supportive . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For a variety of reasons it was not possible to hold interviews with members of the music and drama departments , or with any representative of the senior management . |
| 18 | It was not possible to do that . |
| 19 | It was not possible to do this without assuming that dreamwork transformations took place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was not possible to ask her questions . |
| 22 | Despite quite lengthy direct discussions and several side meetings with the Chairman , it was not possible to progress the issue . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was not possible to confirm brain stem death in this patient because of potentially reversible metabolic disturbances . |
| 25 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 26 | Hodgson also expressed the belief that it was not possible to predict which two countries would go to America for the World Cup finals next year . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 29 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 30 | No , it was not possible to say when a commercially viable FBR would be built . |