Example sentences of "seemed impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth century it seemed impossible to build a barn without creating a work of art . |
| 2 | For a long time it seemed impossible to refer to Communists without using the words ‘ conspiracy ’ and ‘ sons of bitches ’ . |
| 3 | Oh , she did n't know what she meant , she must be going mad , it seemed impossible to think about anything in a straightforward way . |
| 4 | If she could only cry it would help , but that seemed impossible too . |
| 5 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 6 | It seemed impossible that , from such a large and fertile dossier , absolutely nothing had emerged . |
| 7 | As the song was not on any album or on any previous release , failure seemed impossible . |
| 8 | There was so much snow that it seemed impossible that this was not the natural surface of the earth . |
| 9 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 10 | But always it seemed impossible that you would ever sit on the polished seat of a flushing lavatory again . |
| 11 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 12 | Death still seemed impossible but then I suppose it always does . |
| 13 | When it seemed impossible to sink any lower , the team rose to the challenge and sputtered their way through a pitiful draw with Iran , in which an own goal saved them from defeat . |
| 14 | Bransby Cooper ( Sir Astley 's nephew ) who knew Coleman personally for many years , said it seemed impossible not to love one so agreeable , kind-hearted , and blessed with all those qualities which endear man to man . |
| 15 | At first it seemed impossible to cope with two employers with their contrasting attitudes towards money . |
| 16 | The hope persisted , though often it seemed impossible . |
| 17 | The early evening sun was warm on her face and the sky so clear and calm that it seemed impossible so beautiful a world could be at war ; that small , beautiful world that was Yeoman 's Lane , and Tingle 's Wood , through which it ran . |
| 18 | I was in no mood to write ; it seemed impossible . |
| 19 | For those sociologists keen to establish the scientific credentials of sociology , both the attempt to comment on epistemology as knowledge and the attempt to found an empirical subject on relationist methods seemed impossible . |
| 20 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 21 | It seemed impossible that the leopard could cross that open space , on which grew only a few clumps of coarse grass , without being seen . |
| 22 | It seemed impossible that anyone could survive in the middle of that storm of blades . |
| 23 | As a general point , however , if you plan your finances with a specific objective in view , you may find that against expectations a notion that first seemed impossible is actually affordable . |
| 24 | It seemed impossible that this might become a battlefield , and perhaps it would not , for Sharpe was already beginning to doubt what he had seen that same morning . |
| 25 | It seemed impossible that the French still hesitated . |
| 26 | A couple of decades ago , when Piper and Cessna were busy making light singles that were the first aircraft for the average pilot wherever he or she flew , it seemed impossible that anything could stop the domination of the American makers . |
| 27 | These two opposite conditions of temperature seemed impossible to reconcile . |
| 28 | Nobody could dream that , you know , things that are in existence today , a hundred years ago , you know it was , it seemed impossible . |
| 29 | When Ngo Dinh Diem was proclaimed President of the ‘ Republic of Vietnam ’ in October 1955 compromise seemed impossible as he began to suppress all opposition , whether political or religious . |
| 30 | We left on a windless morning , and for a time the town seemed impossible to shake off . |