Example sentences of "made it impossible [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You made it impossible to be just friends . |
| 2 | One of the congressional critics , Representative Henry Waxman from California , however , said that the lack of thorough testing made it impossible to gauge water quality accurately . |
| 3 | By all accounts Saturday 's display ( it was not desertion of the cause but prior engagements which made it impossible to be there ) from the mighty Quakers was slightly better than the previous innocuous effort . |
| 4 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 5 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 6 | He had made no plans : fatigue made it impossible for him to think rationally . |
| 7 | Her unfortunate gaffe over tea made it impossible for Elisabeth to offer any excuse when Mitzi Baum accosted her on the stairs on the way to dinner and asked her to share her table . |
| 8 | His desire to be always in absolute control made it impossible for him to seek the medical and psychological help he needed and he had no close friends to persuade him . |
| 9 | New policing strategies The commitment of large numbers of police officers to the task of keeping the pits open made it impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers to achieve a total shut-down in domestic coal production . |
| 10 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 11 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 12 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 13 | For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom ( v. 21 ) . |
| 14 | They made it impossible for me to stay . |
| 15 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 16 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |
| 17 | Spencer had always been the favoured one , beloved by mother since his difficult birth made it impossible for her to have any more children . |
| 18 | The timing of these concerted attacks to the same day , along the entire front , made it impossible for the Austro-Hungarian forces to be switched back and forth behind their line , with the result that they had to fight each battle with the support of no more than local reserves . |
| 19 | In her study of young Asian men and women who were unemployed , Brah notes that sons with widowed mothers felt under particular pressure to support them financially and practically , and when unemployment made it impossible for them to do so they felt ‘ an acute sense of failure ’ as one of her interviewees put it , |
| 20 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 21 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
| 22 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 23 | However , the steepness of its banks made it impossible for vehicles to cross except by the bridge at the southern and of the town which , in 1815 , was only two and a half yards wide at its broadest point . |
| 24 | The categorization of individuals by position in the hierarchy and group membership made it impossible for an individual to divorce himself from his social role . |
| 25 | In fact the broken ground made it impossible for the English knights to manoeuvre easily . |
| 26 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 27 | This gravely restricted Law 's room for manoeuvre and made it impossible for him to accept the only compromise that Asquith could offer . |
| 28 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 29 | In Capital , Volume 3 Marx noted this trend when he argued that the increasing size of enterprises made it impossible for them to be run by a single person . |
| 30 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |