Example sentences of "impossible [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be impossible using simple cuttings and such disease resistant strains would be an obvious advantage to many farming systems in Africa , where cassava is a major crop , especially if disease resistance can be combined with high productivity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But without variations in exchange rates or labour costs it will be impossible to sustain different levels of labour productivity in different parts of the Community . |
| 4 | A spokesman for the National Association of Funeral Directors in London said that it would be impossible to obtain comparative figures for the UK . |
| 5 | This facility should also be allowed where it has proved impossible to obtain original invoices . |
| 6 | Similarly , some of the bigger employers are finding it impossible to attract young workers on to their YTS schemes . |
| 7 | But because IQ is , in fact , so broadly correlated with other cognitive activities , in school and at work , it is virtually impossible to design objective measures of performance not correlated with tested intelligence , and hence subject to the same charges of ineffectuality and bias . |
| 8 | In Team D it proved impossible to identify sufficient cases . |
| 9 | The all embracing structure of the nation as a family headed by the Emperor , made it impossible to challenge particular aspects of the social order without calling into question the ultimate authority of the Emperor . |
| 10 | It is impossible to give hard-and-fast rules , but here are some points to consider : |
| 11 | It is impossible to give exact figures for non-returners for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | Leadership is axiomatic to human resource management and it is impossible to draw neat boundaries between the various principles identified in this chapter . |
| 13 | Whilst it may be desirable , for the reasons discussed above , for a business to make detailed provision in its contracts for contingencies which may arise , it will generally be impossible to negotiate separate contracts for each transaction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is impossible to recall contaminated eggs as they are distributed to packing stations around the country , where they are packed under British brand names . |
| 16 | This is a lesson well learned in terms of the aquarium also , as it is quite impossible to keep reef-building corals and the large number of anemones and various other coelenterates which depend on this association with zooxanthellae , in captivity , without high-intensity lighting of the correct spectral range . |
| 17 | Police feared many more might make the trip , making it impossible to separate rival fans . |
| 18 | If France remained without an ally who could force Germany to fight on two fronts she would find it impossible to match German numbers because of the difference in the birthrate of the two nations . |
| 19 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Equally , it is impossible to analyse social systems as consisting of norms and values and power relationships without examining the way in which they actually impinge on people . |
| 22 | It would be impossible to withdraw American forces if this gave the Soviet Union the opportunity to move into Japan . |
| 23 | They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed . |
| 24 | The meaning of objects in the human world is shared among people , otherwise it would be impossible to have social relations . |
| 25 | It is impossible to present right-brain concepts as reasonable or understandable to people who have suppressed the greater part of their right-brain abilities and function virtually entirely in the left-brain approach . |
| 26 | This is a particularly good way of entering and remaining in more distant markets , or in any market where it is difficult or impossible to export finished goods . |
| 27 | I find it appalling that Warwick , who are now well established in this country , are not apparently concerned with after sales service to the extent that it is at the moment impossible to get spare parts without sending off to Germany . |
| 28 | It claims it is impossible to get maximum returns for timber when trying to meet other objectives . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The problem is that voice transmission will soon be replaced by an endless , inseparable stream of electronic emissions , making it virtually impossible to capture criminal coversations ... |