Example sentences of "it is impossible [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( ii ) It is impossible to translate a literary work ; |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Because it is impossible to use a shield while swinging a halberd this trooper wears a substantial suit of armour to protect him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Today , semaphore signalling is still used at sea , where it is impossible to use wires or cable for communication . |
| 9 | It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand . |
| 10 | It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand in the short term . |
| 11 | When a thesis receives one citation in each of five separate years , it is impossible to assign a peak . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It is impossible to sustain one 's body without the destruction of other bodies to some extent . ’ |
| 14 | We suppose that it is impossible to sustain both high juvenile and adult survival , and choose the arbitrary constraint that J+A1 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Since the ‘ history of belief and feeling ’ can not be traced , it is impossible to conclude which alternative is the true one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As a result , it is impossible to derive egalitarianism in the Marxist sense from a Biblical foundation . |
| 19 | It is impossible to judge the value of cutlery without knowing the alloy content . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | It is impossible to estimate the number who were widowed ( Scottish losses were heavy in France ) . |
| 27 | Though it is impossible to estimate their numbers with accuracy , the generally accepted total for all the peoples together is only between 200,000 and 220,000 in the late sixteenth century . |
| 28 | For example , without scanning the entire index , it is impossible to estimate the total number of relevant documents in the system , a figure that is required in the calculation of recall . |
| 29 | In reality it is impossible to estimate the probabilities P ( wi|w1 , … , wi-1 ) for all but very small values of i , and only for quite a small vocabulary . |
| 30 | ‘ It is impossible to estimate exactly how much this defendant 's offences cost the city council , ’ said Mrs McGrath . |