Example sentences of "[was/were] no possible [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Glenelg ( Wester Ross ) where most of the people had a job with the Forestry Commission there were no possible alternatives to their present enterprises and so they were likely to do nothing . |
| 2 | This flock extended from ground level to well above the aircraft and there was no possible way for the pilot to avoid it ; almost immediately the crew heart the sound of multiple bird strikes on the aircraft , the commander described the noise " like a machine gun " . |
| 3 | Although there was little room to doubt that the government of the United States , with the assistance of the British and German governments , was engaged in the biggest cover-up of modern times , there was no possible way Shaughnessy could prove it to a judge and jury unless the US government opened its files — and thereby virtually incriminated itself . |
| 4 | There was no possible way of reconciling such a view with that of peasants or landlords , for whom land was not merely a source of maximisable income but the framework of life ; with that of social systems , for which the relations of men to the land and to each other in terms of the land were not , as it were , optional , but obligatory . |
| 5 | It is highly likely that there was no possible adjustment to the gold price in the 1960s which would have ensured an adequate flow of gold into the reserves of the USA and other countries . |
| 6 | Yet now it had come , now there was no possible turning back , and no alternative path to take , they found it oddly liberating . |
| 7 | Because the movies were the first real mass entertainment the showmen realized that the sky was the limit and that there was no possible reason for timidity and restraint . |
| 8 | There was no possible reason why the masters should acquiesce in the expropriation of the means of production they owned . |
| 9 | This house still lived ; there was no possible reason to question the permanence of its long-preserved prosperity . |
| 10 | Despite this , one still sees lay lords investing in land — there was no possible alternative — and the need to compensate for declining returns to maintain an existing standard of living may indeed explain some of the characteristic features of fifteenth-century society , the pursuit of heiresses , the search for the patronage of a greater man , particularly the King who could grant pensions and offices , and the desire to campaign overseas . |
| 11 | There was no possible future in this . |
| 12 | There was no possible future in it . |