Example sentences of "been impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would not take office under MacDonald , and yet it would have been impossible to have refused . |
| 2 | It appears to be even more prevalent in ‘ socialist ’ states than in ‘ capitalist ’ states : the compulsory movement to ujamaa villages in Tanzania in 1975 would have been impossible in a society which genuinely respected peasant opinion . |
| 3 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 4 | Since the early 1920s , therefore , it has been impossible to talk about any aspect of British cinema without drawing unfavourable comparisons with Hollywood . |
| 5 | Take the first ingredient , without which this week 's announcement about a local property tax would have been impossible — the £4 billion ( $7 billion ) switch to value-added tax ( VAT ) in the Budget . |
| 6 | So West Indies won by an innings and 156 runs ; yet had England managed to hold on for just another three or four minutes they would have got a draw , for the heavens opened and further play would have been impossible . |
| 7 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 8 | She had hung up a Breughel pint , and the golden patterns on the wall brought it to life — the Elizabethan diamond panes casting shafts of light and designs which would have been impossible through a modern window . |
| 9 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 10 | In the single market of next year , these neat divisions would have been impossible to maintain . |
| 11 | Such is his domination of Palestinian affairs that the grooming of a successor has been impossible . |
| 12 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
| 13 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 14 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 15 | It would have been impossible without you ! |
| 16 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 17 | Driving the cattle that was to feed the troops through the Alps was a Herculean task and it would have been impossible without the dogs . |
| 18 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 19 | Without this progress , understanding the existing drugs and inventing new ones would have been impossible . |
| 20 | This would have been impossible unless we camped at the foot of Beinn Eibhinn , or had started from Loch Ossian at dawn , or were two gold medalist fell-runners . |
| 21 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 22 | It had been impossible to wear the straw hat all morning because the wind caught it and pulled the chin-strap — improvised from a bootlace — into my neck . |
| 23 | It had been impossible to stop my body from charging but now it was impossible to fight off the fatigue . |
| 24 | But perhaps Nicholson 's most spectacular achievement was the important part he played in surpassing the performance of the rival Perkin & Sons — a feat that would have been impossible without the cooperation of his friend , and mentor , Hofmann . |
| 25 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 26 | This would have been impossible without the link provided from postcoded data ( increasingly available from sources such as cancer registries ) to Ordnance Survey ( OS ) grid references . |
| 27 | In our case , of course , it would have been impossible , but I know of cases where parents have attempted to keep their adopted children in ignorance of their origins . |
| 28 | This has always constituted something of an Achilles Heel : it has been impossible to prove the value of development activity in most cases . |
| 29 | It seems most unlikely that the testator had any intention of this sort ; and it is pointless to assert that such a decision would have been impossible in a legacy , since the whole context — a disposition charged on a non-heir — is one in which a legacy could not have functioned . |
| 30 | They not only allowed the third party an action which would have been impossible at civil law , but also permitted specific performance . |