Example sentences of "is not possible [verb] " in BNC.

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1 However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion .
2 In a case such as this , involving humans , it is not possible to perform a properly designed cause-to-effect experiment .
3 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question .
4 He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā .
5 However , it appears that most ventures are characterized by investments in a project where the uncertainty is so great that it is not possible to evaluate it by means of ordinary criteria for analysis of projects .
6 It is not possible to reconcile love and possessions .
7 But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community .
8 Lord Keith , along with other British judges , sees the rule in Marleasing as one of interpretation only which leaves the national judge a margin of discretion to find that it is not possible to reconcile national law with Community law .
9 The needs are so varied and require such specialist and informed help that it is not possible to deal with them here .
10 Unfortunately , in a book of this size it is not possible to deal with all aspects of obtaining meaning from symbols and images .
11 It is not possible to deal at length with all of these problems in this single chapter .
12 It is not possible to deal with every detail in the space of this leaflet , but we hope it provides a basic outline .
13 4.26 It is not possible to deal fully with the question of tax .
14 Whilst it is not possible to fool the private sector repeatedly , issues of credibility and the extent of discretion are important .
15 The helical axes have significantly different directions in the two structures , and it is not possible to superimpose the helices .
16 The betting odds here are extraordinarily long ; theory suggests that it is not possible to liberate useful energy this way nor is there any natural phenomenon that gives us confidence that this can occur .
17 Similarly it is not possible to negotiate if a client has clear rights in a situation .
18 More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available .
19 Generally , it is not possible to act for both a buyer and a seller , for their interests vary .
20 ‘ If the custodian works alone on the site , sometimes it is not possible to spend much time with a school party — but they are keen to get good support material they can give to teachers .
21 If it is not possible to attend a back to nursing course there are various distance learning packages available which can be studied successfully at home .
22 However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search .
23 Now the the control of the audit commission is on record as stating quite clearly that it is not possible to account the equation .
24 Although it is the case that many of Freud 's speculations were mistaken , something he half , if not fully , expected would happen within biology , it is not possible to ignore the other aspects of the death-instinct theory which have an application within psychoanalysis , and its extension into sociology .
25 Unlike classical behaviourists , functionalists believe that is not possible to explain intelligent behaviour unless we make reference to processes that are taking place inside a person 's head .
26 It is not possible to explain the reasoning behind the proposals or their details in this leaflet — these are in the Plan itself .
27 It is not possible to explain the vast structure of institutions to which we assign the name of property as the expression , the means of satisfaction , of man 's desire for physical objects .
28 It is not possible to use Carboniferous shale velocity data for inversion estimates because regionally continuous homogeneous shale sections are not recognised .
29 The conclusion seems justified , but owing to the problems of transmission of these works of Scaevola , it is not possible to use it as a conclusion for classical law .
30 For this reason of re-programming , it is not possible to use the Form area of the E6000 's program when working with very large designs .
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