Example sentences of "was not [adv] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 2 | It was not quite possible to communicate the horror of examination by McCarthy . |
| 3 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 4 | One patient showed 100% aperistalsis both before and after treatment , and it was not therefore possible to measure amplitude , duration , or velocity of propagation in this patient . |
| 5 | Double staining with CD25 and CD3 showed that many of the T lymphocytes were activated , though it was not technically possible to count these . |
| 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 | But it was not always possible to do this : the mere facts of topography were against it : and a great number of farms had to be created well away from the village . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In some areas , such as social policy , it was not always possible to develop meaningful output measures . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | : Due to constraints on the availability of data pads it was not always possible to obtain test data from the original source . |
| 13 | For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient . |
| 14 | in December so it was n't actually possible to sort out these these queries . |
| 15 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |