Example sentences of "it impossible [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded .
9 The inadequate statistical material available makes it impossible to prove either claim .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The lack of an appropriate animal model makes it impossible to investigate this question further at present .
13 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 .
14 The spectrum of activities make it impossible to understand all the business processes and priorities .
15 The position for the international station chosen by Baxter would make it impossible to provide any route between Thameslink and the east coast main line .
16 Although I found it impossible to imagine such a conversation with Mrs Monro , I had no doubt that Lili was telling the truth , and whatever the psychological convolutions the facts were there .
17 Some people seem to find it impossible to make that personal decision .
18 Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 .
19 Both the Czechoslovak and Hungarian governments had initially sought a complete withdrawal by the end of 1990 , but the Soviet side had claimed that logistical and other technical problems , in particular concerning the resettlement of large numbers of troops and families in the Soviet Union , made it impossible to meet such a deadline .
20 Secondly , I find it impossible to accept that general practice is a specialty .
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