Example sentences of "it impossible [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term . |
| 2 | Moreover , both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization . |
| 3 | I have found it impossible to convince young people in the latter stages of their compulsory education of the need to gain skills with which to enter full-time work . |
| 4 | Mr Edwards reiterated his warning that the Government would find it impossible to privatise British Coal without such long-term supply deals . |
| 5 | Rice production had fallen , however , by 29 per cent ( to 29,300 tonnes ) , because rehabilitation work on the Massingir dam in Gaza province had made it impossible to supply sufficient water to irrigated land normally planted with rice in the Limpopo valley . |
| 6 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 7 | The all embracing structure of the nation as a family headed by the Emperor , made it impossible to challenge particular aspects of the social order without calling into question the ultimate authority of the Emperor . |
| 8 | This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution , as one can in astronomy . |