Example sentences of "not [verb] [be] possible " in BNC.
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1 | Despite the heat , Ludovico 's passion had taken her to heights she had not dreamed were possible . |
2 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
3 | Films like Basil Dearden 's Sapphire ( 1959 ) , dealing with racial prejudice and mixed Marriages , and Victim ( 1961 ) , which cast Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual barrister who decides to take a stand against social hypocrisy , would not have been possible if television had not already put such issues on the agenda . |
4 | 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 ) ) . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Before a combination of Chernobyl , glasnost and the easing of East-West military tensions lifted the blanket of secrecy covering civil reactors in the Soviet Union WANO would not have been possible . |
8 | In narrower military terms , the Sandys ’ Reformation , without which it would not have been possible to contemplate ending National Service , was already seen in Whitehall as premature , if not wholly mistaken . |
9 | This growth in what the tourism business winsomely calls the ‘ silver generation ’ would not have been possible without big changes in boots and bindings . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | Possibly , the River Thames had a very different appearance and variations in its route , so it would not have been possible to pin-point the position of Chiswick which now lies nestled in a compact ‘ U ’ bend of the river . |
13 | The sculpted figures of mineworkers with their lamps are the work of M. B. Braun from 1721–5 and are a salient reminder that without the silver mines of Jihlava and Kutná Hora royal patronage of the arts would not have been possible . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Otherwise his life would not have been possible , because he only thought of that every night , and every day too . ’ |
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 | ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with . |
20 | Cheltenham Clerk of the Course Philip Arkwright said racing would not have been possible yesterday . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Without it , modern democracy and republicanism could not have come into existence and scientific and technological progress would not have been possible ( and possibly slavery might not have been abolished ) . |
23 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
24 | thanks Our thanks to the following salons without whose help this issue would not have been possible |
25 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
26 | Our thanks to the following salons without whose help this issue would not have been possible |
27 | The conception of Rome was different : it was a framework treaty covering a wide area , where agreement by the drafting partners ( the member states ) on everything would not have been possible and probably not advisable . |
28 | Without these , the dense urban populations of the twentieth century would not have been possible . |
29 | In other words , if the legal discourse had exactly paralleled the everyday discourse it would not have been possible to achieve a solution in one but not in the other . |
30 | The expansion of the study of family history in recent years , and the coming together of historical and sociological concerns in this field in particular , makes it possible at least to attempt answers to these questions in a way that would not have been possible even ten years ago , for lack of appropriate sources of evidence . |