Example sentences of "it impossible " in BNC.
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| 31 | Apart from the difficulties presented by unemployment and the trade depression , already referred to , some of the leading trade unions found it impossible to submerge their differences in a joint defence against the onslaught of both employers and government . |
| 32 | As had happened previously , the fines were paid anonymously but the magistrates had made it impossible for an outsider to defuse the situation on this occasion by also binding them over to keep the peace . |
| 33 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 34 | Having opened the door to invite public inspection , the Palace found it impossible to close again . |
| 35 | The ubiquity of the Jewish theme in his public addresses at this time makes it impossible to imagine that early converts to Nazism could fail to regard violent anti-Semitism as a leading feature of Hitler 's image . |
| 36 | The survivor finds it impossible to start expressing any feelings at all because they are so confusing , challenging and unsafe . |
| 37 | Many old people in particular find it impossible to retire for the night without washing up and leaving everything tidy . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Defeated in his climb , he had been descending , heading for the window , hoping he could hammer on it and attract someone 's attention , but ice and spindrift made it impossible to see where he was going ; and now he was trapped . |
| 40 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 41 | Others , visiting Paris , would sit in Notre Dame to observe the pulpit techniques of French preachers although the listeners would have found it impossible to order a bifteck from a tolerant waiter . |
| 42 | This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution , as one can in astronomy . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |
| 45 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 46 | Hounslow 's headquarters have been at the Church Meadow ground for 70 years but sharing with a cricket club makes it impossible to lay a synthetic surface there . |
| 47 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 48 | The complexity of modern European economies makes it impossible to believe that rural community self-sufficiency can be achieved in isolation from urban and industrial economy . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 51 | If you 're the sort that finds it impossible to relax , the Samos is the perfect holiday base . |
| 52 | A recent bereavement may make it impossible for a participant in a drama class to join in a drama about the Plague of London or the death of Cordelia . |
| 53 | The Germans and the French consider it impossible to have a central bank in the EC without binding rules , sanctions and other instruments for imposing economic policy , since ‘ even an independent central bank can not ensure price stability alone , as monetary policy does not operate in a vacuum , but rather has close links with other fields ’ . |
| 54 | Because the total numbers of animals on islands tend to be small , large predators in general find it impossible to exist at all — except , of course , for creatures such as seals and sealions , which feed at sea and come ashore only to breed or bask . |
| 55 | From the point of view of many who have traced the development of religious thought over the last two hundred years , theism ceased to be unshakeable long before , in the twentieth century , Ayer and others from the school of ‘ logical positivism ’ sought to make it impossible . |
| 56 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 57 | Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] . |
| 58 | But despite the positive counselling they may well receive , many parents , especially fathers , find it impossible to come to terms with the nature of their son or daughter . |
| 59 | Family and employment pressures make it impossible for many parents to offer help and their feelings and attitudes need careful consideration . |
| 60 | Sadly , Ransome found it impossible to carry through . |