Example sentences of "[pron] impossible [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now he 's probably the number one rock star and teen idol in the Soviet Union something impossible to imagine several years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Coran Brothers FC have their ground on the outskirts of Watley and as the train goes through the middle of the town you may think it impossible to see any of Linekar Avenue but this is not so . |
| 4 | The reversal of the conventional speech/writing hierarchy which is implied in the term archi-écriture makes it impossible to see any use of language , written or spoken , as being determined by presence , intention or representation . |
| 5 | The resurgence of interest in cognitive processes makes it impossible to hold such a simple view any longer and nowadays most psychologists recognize that there are psychological processes , like verbal communication and the symbolic representation of future events , that can only reliably be demonstrated in other people . |
| 6 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 7 | The resultant political disunity , probably exacerbated by quarrels over the best methods to adopt against the Scandinavians , and coupled with the king 's apparent inability to provide the necessary leadership , made it impossible to assemble successful armies . |
| 8 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |
| 9 | Moreover , both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization . |
| 10 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |
| 11 | She found it impossible to sit still . |
| 12 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
| 13 | It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically . |
| 14 | Also patching the good eye of a child whose lazy eye has an acuity of 6/24 or less may make it impossible to manage normal school work . |
| 15 | Whilst that may work well enough in a small firm ( though even then the theory may need some adjustment , if only for example to permit decisions to be taken while partners are on holiday ) , the complexity which attends the affairs of all solicitors ' practices of any size will make it impossible to give each of the partners such degrees of freedom or power . |
| 16 | And I think that even patients with lung cancer find it impossible to smo , stop smoking That is , perhaps , not so important , but what is much more important is that their families find it impossible to stop smoking ! |
| 17 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 18 | The inadequate statistical material available makes it impossible to prove either claim . |
| 19 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 20 | The very different behaviour of coordinate time t and the proper time τ when the probe approaches and crosses the horizon illustrates vividly how spacetime curvature makes it impossible to cover all space–time with one set of Cartesian coordinates . |
| 21 | That dispute has made it impossible to produce audited accounts . ’ |
| 22 | I apologize for the fact that delays in obtaining some of the necessary information have made it impossible to produce detailed cost estimates , but the considerations listed below should enable us to determine whether such a change would be worthwhile . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The rule , combined with the rule against hearsay which prevents criminal courts admitting evidence of a child 's interviews with social workers or psychiatrists , has made it impossible to prosecute many alleged child abusers . |
| 25 | The lack of an appropriate animal model makes it impossible to investigate this question further at present . |
| 26 | Mr Edwards reiterated his warning that the Government would find it impossible to privatise British Coal without such long-term supply deals . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 30 | Such diversity may make it impossible to establish common psychological ground within a category like ‘ working-class older lesbians ’ . |