Example sentences of "[not/n't] possibly " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future depended on decisions I could not possibly predict , but at least I had now been offered a shadow of a lifeline , and that , for the moment , would have to do . |
| 2 | Applying the opposite rudder can not possibly cause the spin to reverse as is sometimes stated , unless the pilot is keeping the stick right back . |
| 3 | She had always sworn to herself that she would never impose on her daughter 's marriage 2. ) but she knows now that she can not possibly decline an invitation to spend the rest of her days at her son-in-law 's house . |
| 4 | Now he was filling their relationship with a seriousness she had always assumed it could not possibly contain . |
| 5 | Her utterly unquestioning faith in the Bible led her to believe that none could possibly be luckier or greater than those whom the love of God chooses , and if the love of God had chosen to choose the Jews , then their superiority over the rest of mankind could not possibly be doubted . |
| 6 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |
| 7 | The thirty-year rundown of the Great Central Railway terminus at Marylebone ( a prelude to seemingly inevitable total closure ) , was dramatically slammed into reverse gear on 30 April when BR admitted blossoming Chiltern Line services could not possibly be handled by Paddington , Euston , or even handed over to London Transport . |
| 8 | On reflection , costly mistakes were made with both the Class 27s and 45s , whose short careers could not possibly have justified the lavish life-extension work carried out on them . |
| 9 | In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) . |
| 10 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 11 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 12 | He can not possibly have played better despite tiring in the second half of a patchy but exciting final . |
| 13 | Frank said that he did not believe in God ; such a belief can not possibly be proved ; the good life is possible without it ; and the only faculty to judge is the reason , which tells us to say , we do not know . |
| 14 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 15 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 16 | Jack could not possibly run the house from Oxford , and Warnie was still a serving officer in the Army . |
| 17 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 18 | He could not possibly be on steroids : he is too damn skinny . |
| 19 | The great fear of China 's leaders is not that western conspirators will weave more plots but that China 's people , enraged by corruption and scornful of slogans , will take to the streets , as they did last June , to demand instant solutions that the government can not possibly provide . |
| 20 | I say if she thought till she was tired , she could not possibly think of any wrong … . |
| 21 | But I felt I could not possibly meet him again . |
| 22 | Abraham , the alien , can not possibly bury Sarah in their finest grave . |
| 23 | But that was something he could not possibly admit . |
| 24 | He was not certain of the exact meaning of the word , but he knew without doubt that it could not possibly be applied to him . |
| 25 | She could not possibly have known the misery such a revelation would cause him , because now he was forbidden to call her by any other name and he knew from painful experience that Tom Fish would not relent until he had his way . |
| 26 | Faith could not possibly have known a booking-clerk at a railway station , therefore he had certainly been a stranger , idle and curious , a watcher at the funeral . |
| 27 | ‘ In any case , whatever you both felt , I decided that I could not possibly accept these things . |
| 28 | He could not possibly have misunderstood me . |
| 29 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 30 | I could not possibly go to another doctor . |