Sentence examples for was barely conceivable from inspiring English sources

But, as a 14-year resident of Orihuela Costa, he had been holding out for a remain vote as the alternative was barely conceivable: "I can't imagine sitting behind closed doors and drawn curtains at 4pm," he said.

These were the nights, he said, when Stamford Bridge tended to be at its best and he argued, with some justification, that it was barely conceivable to think the players Di Matteo had inherited from André Villas-Boas would be as vulnerable as they were in Italy.

A monopoly as the second scenario was barely conceivable without a large-scale war.

Twelve months ago, this would have been barely conceivable.

(One of his biographers observed of "4D Time Lock" that "worse prose is barely conceivable").

On this evidence, it is barely conceivable that those in blue had hoisted the trophy only 16 months ago.

As a whole, the work is barely conceivable, and I'm still completely bowled over by it". Every audience for this piece can share Webern's feelings.

As a result of settlement expansion the area available for a Palestinian state has been steadily shrinking to the point where a two-state solution is barely conceivable.

The energy required to push a spacecraft up to the speed needed to get to the star within 50 years was so great as to be barely conceivable.

Mr Gabriel told the Tagesspiegel newspaper: "With the rejection of the rules of the eurozone … negotiations about a [bailout] programme worth billions are 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.