Sentence examples for have been conceivable from inspiring English sources

Would the enigmas of Jasper Johns's flags or Ed Ruscha's deadpan pairing of image and text have been conceivable otherwise?

Would this have been conceivable had Egyptian society been healthy, cohesive, heralding its energies to build a better future?

"Even five years ago, it wouldn't have been conceivable for the Super Bowl to express an unabashedly pro-gay message during the half-time show".

Neither would have been conceivable before the reforming Vatican council of the 1960s, but they show the considerable distance that the pope and most of his church have travelled since then.

Come to that, does anyone believe that if 'culture' and 'sport' had not been lumped together into a single government department, it would have been conceivable to raid the arts budget in such a shameless way?

Borzage's eternal theme — that romantic love transcends all physical circumstance, with a force like that of religion — is developed in "7th Heaven" through elaborate camera movements that would probably not have been conceivable without Murnau's example.

It had been conceivable, if not likely, that Assad's rule would crumble under pressure and IS would be the beneficiary.

Bad principals have been sacked.It is conceivable that some of the 80,000 teachers employed by the city deserve the same fate, though the majority do a good job in sometimes terrible conditions, with some of them buying school supplies out of their own pockets.

Twelve months ago, this would have been barely conceivable.

A robot like Rethink Robotics's Baxter, with two arms and a remarkably easy, intuitive programming interface, would have been barely conceivable ten years ago.

That historians and sociologists, for example, might ever work together in curricula and research projects would have been scarcely conceivable prior to about 1945.