Example sentences of "[pron] is impossible [verb] " in BNC.

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1 which is impossible to taste
2 People think of behaviour as a vast amorphous thing which is impossible to plan .
3 Ours is n't a century like the eighteenth century which is impossible to love but which has its own integrity , an identity .
4 The scenes of destitution which the journalists could not be prevented from glimpsing-it is impossible to put someone in a hermetic bubble all the time , even for ten days — had not apparently impaired their appetites .
5 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 .
6 Each of these secondary attacks should be treated as having WS 25 and S 3 ; it is impossible to destroy everything in the room which is capable of delivering these attacks , and the only way to stop them is to destroy the clock .
7 Perusing a recent report on the most quoted bioscience publications for 1980–81 ( Current Contents vol 26 , no 10 , p 5 ) , it is impossible to resist the conclusion that those which received an immediate burst of citations represent genuine hot spots in research .
8 ( ii ) It is impossible to translate a literary work ;
9 He used to go around with a jug of orange juice to drum home to people that it is impossible to earn more unless more is produced .
10 Because it is impossible to use a shield while swinging a halberd this trooper wears a substantial suit of armour to protect him .
11 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 .
12 Today , semaphore signalling is still used at sea , where it is impossible to use wires or cable for communication .
13 It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand .
14 It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand in the short term .
15 When a thesis receives one citation in each of five separate years , it is impossible to assign a peak .
16 Mukerji is not dividing off consumption from production , but showing how it is impossible to account for the development of the latter without considering the history of the former .
17 It is impossible to sustain one 's body without the destruction of other bodies to some extent . ’
18 We suppose that it is impossible to sustain both high juvenile and adult survival , and choose the arbitrary constraint that J+A1 .
19 It is impossible to envisage the original siting of a settlement , and the reasons behind that siting , without some consideration of whether conditions have altered since the place was founded .
20 Since the ‘ history of belief and feeling ’ can not be traced , it is impossible to conclude which alternative is the true one .
21 An allocation is Pareto-efficient for a given set of consumer tastes , resources , and technology , if it is impossible to move to another allocation which would make some people better off and nobody worse off .
22 As a result , it is impossible to derive egalitarianism in the Marxist sense from a Biblical foundation .
23 It is impossible to judge the value of cutlery without knowing the alloy content .
24 It is impossible to judge on the basis of a single day , however , and you should be looking for a consistent improvement over a period of time .
25 By refusing to include theory , the department is , in effect , refusing to declare its own theoretical standpoint : it must have a standpoint , for it is impossible to judge or measure the correctness of someone 's ‘ affective ’ or ‘ quasi-sensuous ’ response ; yet English departments do examine and judge people 's performance , just like any other department .
26 Although the cases lay down the rule that a distinction between general skill and knowledge and business secrets must be maintained , it is impossible to formulate any general test .
27 Overall , she inspired great loyalty , respect and love , but her home life was often fraught and it is impossible to appreciate the extent of her achievement in commercial terms if unaware of the friction in her domestic life .
28 Occasionally it was suspected that the behaviour of respondents was being affected by the presence of the field-worker , to what extent it is impossible to estimate , but this is the disadvantage of all overt research techniques and is not unique to ethnography .
29 Joe had once taken Rose Macaulay to a Billy Graham revivalist , fundamentalist mass meeting and been utterly revolted by all the rabid emotionalism and the militant Christianity , and he reminded me what Graham had said about Kinsey : ‘ It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America . ’
30 It is impossible to estimate the number who were widowed ( Scottish losses were heavy in France ) .
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