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

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1 This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution .
2 Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) .
3 However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management .
4 It is not possible to say who did what in the ground , ’ said Mr Picton .
5 ‘ Until that investigation is complete it is not possible to say if any prison rules have been breached . ’
6 On the basis of these observations , it is not possible to say whether or not one of these tests provides a more useful assessment tool than the other .
7 In most disciplines it is not possible to say exactly when the discipline has achieved sufficient breadth and depth to be able to be considered as a subject in its own right .
8 Thus , it is not possible to say much about the post-redundancy experience of older women previously employed in this sector of industry .
9 So , until the decision is made again , it is not possible to say whether the loss would not have been suffered but for the illegal decision .
10 In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years .
11 They can only operate as a rough guide to classifying tables of data , and it is not possible to say how they might relate to the levels in a particular graduated test scheme .
12 It is not possible to say in the abstract what kind of decisions would be taken at these different levels , or at least not with any precision , since this would depend on the character of the economic relations between the general office of the enterprise and its operating units , and between the operating units themselves , quite apart from the particular forms of struggle at local and national level which would be required to implement any such scheme .
13 It is not possible to say that the material as to the second audit must be irrelevant .
14 It is not possible to say that all agents owe the same duties to their principals : it is always necessary to have regard to the express or implied terms of the contract .
15 It is not possible to say whether a substantial report is more likely to make an impact than a slim report .
16 When viewing video , students at all levels attempt to make sense of what they see by hypothesising an event that suits a setting , or a setting that suits an event — it is not possible to say which comes first .
17 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 .
18 Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types .
19 The major limitation of the measure is that it is theoretically open-ended — it is not possible to say that there will be no further citations to a particular thesis in the future .
20 It is not possible to say that these families were typical of all Caribbean families in London .
21 It is not possible to say whether the apparently symbolic objects had any sacral meaning , although the story of Merovech 's birth provides some reason to think that the authority of the Merovingian kings in this period may have been bolstered by pagan tradition .
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