Example sentences of "but it [is] [not/n't] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not possible to look beyond the world in order to see what it depends upon directly . |
| 2 | The minimum number of prey items in the predator assemblages is based on the highest number of any single element in the assemblage , but it is not possible without direct experimental observation to extrapolate back from this to what the predator actually ate ( Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Their abundance in such sites as Rudabanya , Hungary , and Can Llobateres , Spain , and their wide distribution across the whole of southern Europe , demonstrates a successful adaptation spanning 3–4Myr , but it is not possible with our present knowledge to say what was the basis of this success . |
| 4 | We can know how things are in front of our noses , maybe , but it is not possible to know that an altruistic act is morally good , nor that God exists , nor that you will have eggs for breakfast tomorrow . |
| 5 | Year groups are reasonably distinct up to that time ( fig.5 ) , but it is not possible to age adult dogwhelks . |
| 6 | There must be doubt as to whether the Government fully intended the severity of the monetary squeeze and the massive rise in the real exchange rate that impinged on the economy in those years , but it is not possible to overstate the economic shock that hit industry in 1979–1981 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community . |
| 9 | Some ad hoc studies of these problems have been made ‘ off the model ’ but it is not possible to tell , from the model , whether these developments are inevitable , optimal , arise from some readily-changed market impediment , or are undesirable and remediable by drastic changes to policy . |
| 10 | A police spokesman said the incidents are being investigated but it is not possible to speculate why vandals are concentrating on this car . |
| 11 | Steam Tanks must take fear , panic and other psychology tests just like other units and characters , but it is n't possible for a Steam Tank to literally flee . |
| 12 | You know I 'd have you here , love , but it 's not possible . |
| 13 | Close to tears , she said : ‘ I wish Heidi was with me , but it 's not possible right now . |
| 14 | But it 's not possible . |