Example sentences of "it impossible [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs .
2 Substantial investments in distribution systems or overseas plants may be the only means of overcoming barriers which otherwise would make it impossible to reap the full returns from a given technical process .
3 The viability of the Tychonic system makes it impossible to divide the intellectual world-of the early seventeenth century into pro- and anti-Copernicans , still less to countenance the remark of one historian that the English Civil War was fought between Copernicans and Ptolemaics .
4 ‘ You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as the heir to the throne without the help and support of the woman I now loathe . ’
5 An English solicitor might find it impossible to exercise the appropriate degree of supervision and control were the order to be executed abroad ; and a local agent acting on his behalf might not be subject to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the English court to which the Court also attached weight .
6 The main problem , according to the audit office , is that there is no clear link between the commission 's production plans and actual production , making it impossible to identify the full extent of variations between planned , programmed , and actual forest areas supplying timber .
7 On most sites , for instance , foundations alone survive , making it impossible to establish the complete height or appearance of buildings .
8 The clergy were going to make it impossible to find the young priest 's murderer .
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