Example sentences of "[is] [adv] possible [verb] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly it is not possible to negotiate if a client has clear rights in a situation .
2 At this time it is not possible to predict whether all or just part of the above listed data will be required by the public registry , or whether the public registry itself will be a part of a larger commercial registry that would include other trade and secured transactions .
3 It says it is not possible to predict when loading standards can be met .
4 This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution .
5 However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management .
6 On the basis of these observations , it is not possible to say whether or not one of these tests provides a more useful assessment tool than the other .
7 So , until the decision is made again , it is not possible to say whether the loss would not have been suffered but for the illegal decision .
8 It is not possible to say whether a substantial report is more likely to make an impact than a slim report .
9 His successor was his cousin , Eadberht , the brother of Archbishop Ecgberht , but it is not possible to say whether his powerful relatives brought pressure to bear on him to resign .
10 It is not possible to say whether the apparently symbolic objects had any sacral meaning , although the story of Merovech 's birth provides some reason to think that the authority of the Merovingian kings in this period may have been bolstered by pagan tradition .
11 ‘ Until that investigation is complete it is not possible to say if any prison rules have been breached . ’
12 It is not possible to judge whether the social context or the people studied are in any way typical , or representative .
13 Though the inhibition of absorption induced by the α-glucosidase inhibitors is the primary phenomenon , under the present experimental conditions , it is not possible to estimate whether the acceleration in the intestinal transit time contributes to carbohydrate malabsorption by reducing the contact time between the intestinal contents and small intestinal mucosa .
14 The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later .
15 It is now possible to investigate whether it is ‘ just ’ extra DNA sequence , with no apparently defined hypersensitive sites , which leads to position-independent expression of the transgene by designing a minimal ‘ Long ’ construct containing only the defined DH sites ( experiments in progress ) .
16 It is then possible to identify whether the accident happened during or immediately after take-off , during cruising flight or when landing .
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