Example sentences of "[modal v] not have [been] possible [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intelligence is essential , although successful School or University examinations may not have been possible through damage to shore term memory ( upon which facility most examinations are based throughout the phase of active addiction . |
| 2 | Author 's Note : — The compilation of earlier chapters of this book could not have been possible without Abraham Farrar 's researches to point the way . |
| 3 | She was expected to knock and enter the insured person 's house without waiting for a reply , something that would not have been possible at the door of a middle class household . |
| 4 | On Nov. 25 Kohl condemned the attacks and reminded Germans that " without these foreigners , the affluence of this country would not have been possible at all " . |
| 5 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 6 | ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with . |
| 7 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We offer the literature of reassurance ’ states the press office for Mills and Boon : a reassurance that has been marketed with resounding success , a success that would not have been possible for Mills and Boon or for Harlequin without the intervention and resources of the Torstar Corporation . |
| 9 | It would not have been possible for the Government of 1945-51 to get through the legislation if they had faced the delaying tactics that have characterised the progress of Bills in the past 11 to 12 years . |
| 10 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 11 | Suffice it to say that I find that had those alterations not been carried out when they were , it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to be discharged from Hunstead Park in May of nineteen ninety since her home would not have been suitable for her . |
| 12 | Films like Ken Russell 's The Devils ( 1971 ) , with its hysteria and erotic frenzies , or Nic Roeg 's Do n't Look Now ( 1973 ) would not have been possible without the developments in Gothic instigated at Hammer 's Bray Studios ( although Roeg had also worked , as a cameraman , on Roger Corman 's The Masque of the Red Death ( 1964 ) ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 14 | Mr Bond 's business rise would not have been possible without the return of laissez-faire ; the emergence of deregulation ; the ascent of the mega-merger and the credit boom centred on the Anglo economies of Australia , the United States and Britain . |
| 15 | This growth in what the tourism business winsomely calls the ‘ silver generation ’ would not have been possible without big changes in boots and bindings . |
| 16 | Notts ' team manager , John Birch , said : ‘ It is something we have been working towards but which would not have been possible without Swithland 's backing . ’ |
| 17 | It did not appear appropriate , therefore , to develop one global user requirement for the two departments as implied by the FAOR proposals , and , in any event , this would not have been possible without extensive reorganisation of the filing and reference systems as a whole . |
| 18 | She is quick to point out that this would not have been possible without the help of all the artistes and musicians on the various shows . |
| 19 | He claims that major fiascos such as BCCI , Barlow Clowes and the Maxwell pension fraud would not have been possible without the connivance of offshore centres . |
| 20 | This transformation would not have been possible without the framework established by the government to concentrate high technology medicine and medical education in the public hospitals . |
| 21 | No matter how skilled the executives , these shifts in the production structure would not have been possible without complementary adjustments in the way firms can organise their financial affairs . |
| 22 | The massive transportation of goods by air would not have been possible without a faster method of documenting shipments . |
| 23 | The acquisition would not have been possible without the help of the National Heritage Museum Fund and discussions are continuing with the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland regarding a grant towards endowment costs . |
| 24 | It would not have been possible without the cooperation of hard-pressed national park staff , BP Bitor , Govan Davies Estates , Mel Davies of Amroth , Mr Fairbrother of Lamphey , Friends of the Earth Cymru , and last but not least , the wonderfully good humoured Robin and Ann Crump and all their colleagues at Orielton . |
| 25 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 26 | It would not have been possible without this generous sponsorship by British Gas and we are very grateful to them , ’ said Dick Pringle of Hartcliffe Leisure Ltd . |
| 27 | The visit would not have been possible without their tremendous enthusiasm for our invitation , and we particularly thank John Neumeier for his determination to bring over one of his finest works . |
| 28 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |
| 29 | A constructive dialogue of this kind would not have been possible in the 1980s , when such discussion tended to be ideological in character , rather than purely practical , as in this case . |
| 30 | The availability of omeprazole allowed us to achieve complete healing of oesophagitis in all our patients which would not have been possible before this drug was available . |