Example sentences of "[not/n't] possible that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it hardly supports the conclusion which , without further ado , Berkeley draws from it : that it is not possible that sensible things ‘ should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 2 | Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade . |
| 3 | Is it not possible that these few exceptional individuals are , in fact , the normal ones and the rest of us have somewhere deviated from this path of health ? |
| 4 | In Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4 we read ‘ it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins ’ ( referring to the Old Testament sacrifices ) but in verse 12 we read ‘ But this man , after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever , sat down on the right hand of God . ’ |
| 5 | Is it not possible that French influence can be made to be felt once more ? |
| 6 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 7 | But all literary conventions have their origin in life ; is it not possible that the wild men were psychotics driven out of towns and settlements by a society unable to cope with them ? |
| 8 | Now , is it not possible that it is this rule which is the explanation of our referring to the feelings produced in our bodies by prolonged contact with hot or cold objects , as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ ? |
| 9 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 10 | ‘ Is it not possible that you are too much under the influence of Washington which is not even the New York atmosphere ? ’ |
| 11 | The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ? |
| 12 | But was it not possible that Tutilo had believed just as sincerely ? |
| 13 | Eddington thought it was simply not possible that a star could collapse to a point . |
| 14 | Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all . |
| 15 | Surely it was n't possible that he had tracked them down ? |
| 16 | After the fiasco with Mortimer it just was n't possible that this … this insulting individual could arouse even the slightest flicker of response in her , was it ? |