Example sentences of "[adv] always possible " in BNC.

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1 But with central heating , it is now not always possible to provide an ideal plunging environment within the home .
2 The authorities do not require other methods of recovery to be tested , and it is therefore not always possible to be sure whether using the aileron , for instance , will flatten the spin and make it more difficult to stop .
3 For processors which have more complex architectures it is not always possible to have all features present on the screen simultaneously — unless you have dynamic windowing .
4 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 .
5 It is not always possible for low-ranking officers to anticipate the situations which ‘ Action Men ’ need to avoid , and some instances were observed where the aggressive manner of the policeman acted as a form of ‘ amplification of deviance ’ ( Young 1971 ) , transforming a minor situation into ‘ big crime ’ .
6 It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues .
7 From the beginning , Lewis was a conscientious tutor who tried to keep the balance right between amiability or conviviality ( not always possible between incompatible types ) and his duty to the pupils to give them sufficient preparation for their examinations .
8 In later years , offered the objection that celibacy is not always possible , Lewis the radio evangelist was to be quite unambiguous : ‘ faced with an optional question in an examination paper , one considers whether one can do it or not ; faced with a compulsory question , one must do the best one can …
9 This is not always possible outside large Italian communities and ‘ long-life ’ Ricotta , which lasts several weeks , is now available , but the flavour does suffer from this treatment .
10 That is not always possible .
11 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 .
12 Now it is not always possible to be so absolutely in control of food intake that the slim person can guarantee each meal will be a low fat , low sugar , and fairly low-calorie affair .
13 ‘ It 's not always possible . ’
14 Whilst the latter is not always possible it should be kept in mind .
15 It is not always possible to offer every type of room mentioned in accommodation descriptions with all the flights advertised .
16 As one of the Ultra team you will recall that precise statistics of our own losses was not always possible .
17 He had to translate early botanical , English , Scots and Gaelic names into their modern botanical equivalents , although it was not always possible to be precise .
18 I have a routine to which it is not always possible to keep : writing in the morning for about three hours , then the rest of the day for other business .
19 It could be dressed with compost or FYM and shut up to grow from early April ( not always possible on a well-stocked farm in a cold spring ! ) .
20 Ideally you should handle each piece of paper only once , though this is not always possible .
21 It is not always possible to be consistent about separating the two activities .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training .
25 The latter requirement holds no difficulty , rather it is the former requirement which gives rise to difficulties because on occasions odour problems are complex , the source of the odour being difficult to identify , and it is not always possible to know whether or not a particular method of abatement will effect a cure in any given case .
26 It is not always possible to place soft systems studies into strict categories , such as those concerned with organisational analysis , defining user requirements and so on .
27 It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey .
28 But it is not always possible to state a priori if labour is productive or unproductive , since it is the particular circumstances which determine this .
29 Unlike some of his most distinguished contemporaries , the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is reputed to have found the whole process of recording totally congenial , offering the possibility to refine interpretations in a manner which was not always possible in the white-heat surroundings of the concert hall .
30 Although it is not always possible to match jobs perfectly with aptitude , use should be made of the strength and expertise of senior staff in the jobs to which they are best suited ; their enthusiasm will spread to assistants and a higher level of general motivation will result .
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