Example sentences of "[that] it be not possible [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This suggests that considerable diversification of the vertebrate skeleton had already taken place by Lower Ordovician times and , furthermore , that it is not possible on the basis of antiquity alone to predict whether a micromeric or macromeric skeleton is the more primitive vertebrate condition .
2 In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing .
3 Due to the restrictions imposed by the airlines and the railways , we regret that it is not possible for passengers to take their own bikes .
4 The huge quantity of works which are the responsibility of the Soprintendenza means that it is not possible for all restoration campaigns to be carried out by in-house staff .
5 Even if we are able to show that it is not possible for there to be people who feel as we do but have no disposition to behave as we do , or vice versa , the behaviourist way of doing this seems too extreme .
6 ‘ it seems to me that it is not possible for a person in the position of the bank to exclude the discretion of the court , but one nevertheless starts from the position that the contractual position between the parties is that the costs will be paid on an indemnity basis .
7 Our ordinary sense of language suggests that it is not possible for a person to use words or conduct ‘ towards another person ’ if he is unaware of that person 's existence .
8 Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ?
9 I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could .
10 The variety of comment illustrates that it is not possible for outsiders to specify criteria of competent practice without indulging in prescriptive evaluation .
11 Cawkell 's study related to acoustics , but Price 's work does not refer directly to any particular subject field , so that it is not possible to be sure that like is being compared with like .
12 The flexible winding of the organ allows the music to sing and breathe in a way that it is not possible with conventional bellows , and Schrader 's performances , like the instrument , are bold and bracing .
13 The final conclusions of the national committee were , firstly , that it is not possible with the available data to establish a definite causal relation between the use of gangliosides and acute polyneuropathies and , secondly , that patients diagnosed as suffering from acute neuropathies should have a detailed drug history taken and should be followed up ( Grupo de Trabajo Gangli-Msidos , 18th session of Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance , Spain , 1992 ) .
14 On May 15 the Kurdistan Front said that it was not possible at present to issue a list allowing Turkoman inhabitants of the region to elect candidates but that " at the first available opportunity " Turkoman candidates would be elected to the National Assembly .
15 That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’
16 On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied .
17 Wrong , of course , but we were all so engrossed in this life that it was not possible until years afterwards to take an objective view .
18 The participants agreed a statement which stressed the " great potential " of political dialogue , and supported the current broad structure of the talks , but concluded " with regret that it was not possible in present circumstances to proceed to launch fresh substantive talks on the lines envisaged " .
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