Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is not possible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community . |
| 2 | A police spokesman said the incidents are being investigated but it is not possible to speculate why vandals are concentrating on this car . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it is not possible to look beyond the world in order to see what it depends upon directly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Year groups are reasonably distinct up to that time ( fig.5 ) , but it is not possible to age adult dogwhelks . |