Example sentences of "would have [been] [adv] impossible [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The parents had to be able to present a full defence , he said , and if the whole case had been heard in Inverness , it would have been almost impossible to fully safeguard their interests and get everybody in the right place at the right time .
2 Modugno said it would have been almost impossible for Mansell to see the flag while following closely behind the McLaren-Honda of Ayrton Senna .
3 I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity .
4 The establishment of a welfare state and the state purchase of major industries would have been almost impossible in many other years of the twentieth century for they would have precipitated a sterling crisis as bankers and firms switched their assets out of sterling and into foreign currencies .
5 And any attempt to make it more effective would have been virtually impossible in political terms .
6 It would have been humanly impossible for the early Christians to alter the economic base of the whole Roman Empire .
7 Indeed it would have been quite impossible for it to have adopted any other attitude .
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