Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] not [be] possible " in BNC.

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1 Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document .
2 One of the authors , John Perry , director of the Institute of Housing , said yesterday that it had not been possible to calculate a Scottish figure because of differences in the financial systems .
3 Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify .
4 The new chairman , Dr David Swallow , says that it has not been possible to ascertain the impact of these adjustments on the interim results for the six months ended 30 June 1991 , and the directors consider it would not be practical to restate those results .
5 Melts that had frozen within this subconscious lithosphere would enrich it in the same elements that are enriched in the crust , so it has not been possible to distinguish between these theories .
6 By and large the original exhibition at Edinburgh has been well adapted to the diverse spaces at Kenwood , even if it has not been possible to make the large plaster reconstruction model , lent by the Museo della Civiltà Romana , Rome , still the focal centre of the show .
7 Edwin Pettigrew would have a single room , but it had not been possible to get more than one , which meant that Daisy would have to share with Sister Dew .
8 Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ …
9 Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton .
10 It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’
11 There is in fact little evidence that coping responses play a role in the aetiology of major psychiatric disorder since it has not been possible so far to conduct experiments .
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