Example sentences of "it [is] impossible [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | No wonder that the heads of Deutsche Bank or Dresdener Bank today have the Chancellor 's ear' : or that it is impossible to acquire German banks . |
2 | However , individual census household schedules are kept secret by the hundred-year rule , and it is impossible to use civil registers to reconstruct individual life histories and family formation . |
3 | It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand . |
4 | It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand in the short term . |
5 | These experiments somewhat underestimate mutation rates because , even where new mutations are held heterozygous against balancer chromosomes , it is impossible to eliminate natural selection altogether if mutations are not completely recessive ; to take the extreme example , dominant lethals can never be accumulated . |
6 | Leadership is axiomatic to human resource management and it is impossible to draw neat boundaries between the various principles identified in this chapter . |
7 | Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link . |
8 | Equally , it is impossible to analyse social systems as consisting of norms and values and power relationships without examining the way in which they actually impinge on people . |
9 | It is impossible to do full justice to the elegance and sensitivity of this volume which contained the final report . |
10 | It is impossible to give hard-and-fast rules , but here are some points to consider : |
11 | The overall situation is unsatisfactory and it is impossible to give precise guidance as to how a firm can resolve mismatches between fiduciary and regulatory law , other than by always complying with the more onerous obligation where the inconsistency between fiduciary and regulatory law is not direct . |
12 | It is impossible to give exact figures for non-returners for a number of reasons . |
13 | It is impossible to present right-brain concepts as reasonable or understandable to people who have suppressed the greater part of their right-brain abilities and function virtually entirely in the left-brain approach . |
14 | It is impossible to get fresh oil two months after the event , ’ he said . |
15 | It claims it is impossible to get maximum returns for timber when trying to meet other objectives . |
16 | It is impossible to get sensible statistics from it . |
17 | ( i ) It is impossible to paraphrase literary writing ; |
18 | It is impossible to recall contaminated eggs as they are distributed to packing stations around the country , where they are packed under British brand names . |
19 | Phenomenologists believe that it is impossible to produce factual data and it is therefore impossible to produce and check causal explanations . |
20 | The furniture-making craft is so wide and it covers so many disciplines that it is impossible to have in-depth knowledge of all these disciplines all the time . |
21 | It is impossible to play good golf simply by studying a series of action pictures . |
22 | Hearts manager Joe Jordan took that last remark a little further , stating : ‘ It is impossible to play good football in those conditions . |
23 | Because of the differences in structure and gradings in the above two assessments , it is impossible to make direct comparisons , but the 1989 review includes within its Category 16 ( Other Physical Sciences ) , such diverse subjects as astronomy , oceanography , and meteorology , some of which have teaching and research connections with the earth sciences . |
24 | Eliot pointed out a hundred years later , it is impossible to write blank verse without falling into ‘ Miltonisms ’ of verse-movement and echoes of the earlier poet 's lines . |