Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] impossible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of such an agreement between a creditor and a third party with regard to the debt is to render it impossible for the creditor afterwards to sue the debtor for it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 4 | The Attorney-General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , told Mr MacDonald in Monday 's debate on contradictory legal advice that a new amendment of the form now tabled ‘ would render it impossible for the Government to ratify the treaty ’ . |
| 5 | To sum up : a contract is void if , at the time the contract is made and unknown to the parties , goods have perished or do not exist , thereby rendering it impossible for the contract to be performed ; this , however , is subject to the qualification that the contract will not be void if the parties expressly or impliedly agreed otherwise . |
| 6 | The plural text will undo the classical image of a tangible author sending a tangible message to a tangible reader ; and the more plural a text is , the more it will make it impossible for the reader to find any origin for it , whether it be in the form of an authorial voice , a representational content or a philosophical truth . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In fact the broken ground made it impossible for the English knights to manoeuvre easily . |
| 11 | The mistrust which their recent sufferings had engendered against all Turks made it impossible for the Serbs to collaborate with the more reasonable spahis , who were themselves the victims of the janissaries , whose leaders were known as dayis . |
| 12 | For the first time she was grateful for Matilda 's notorious temper , which made it impossible for the Empress to keep her voice down . |
| 13 | Lack of funds through University cut-backs along with his own lack of paper qualifications made it impossible for the Universities to continue employing him . |
| 14 | Popular permissiveness was reflected in jury verdicts , and the repeal of obscenity laws in several European countries made it impossible for the authorities to police the incoming tide of eroticism . |
| 15 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 16 | These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems . |
| 17 | Energetic international regulation of banking and tax laws , making it impossible for the mafiosi to launder their ill-gotten gains , would quickly destroy the Mafia and with it the myth of an irrepressible global conspiracy . |
| 18 | Often the skirt was frilled as well making it impossible for the audience to see where the skirt ended and the knickers began . |
| 19 | The Commission emphasised in its decision that the selective nature of the price cuts , and the circumstances in which they were made , amounted to ‘ loss leader ’ tactics making it impossible for the much smaller competitor in the market place to stay in business . |
| 20 | The biting winds are laden with icy and freezing rain , making it impossible for the target to fight or move . |
| 21 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |
| 22 | He did everything he could to make it impossible for the marriage to take place . |
| 23 | Churchill favoured having just sufficient troops to make it impossible for the USSR to attack without the need to make such large preparations that its intention to start the Third World War would be self-evident . |
| 24 | 2.4 " Common Parts " means any malls and other pedestrian ways concourses and circulation areas staircases escalators ramps and lifts service roads loading bays forecourts and other ways and areas in the Centre which are from time to time during the Term provided by the Landlord for common use by customers frequenting the Centre and by the Tenants and the occupiers of the Centre or persons expressly or by implication authorised by them Although it is highly unlikely that the landlord would so amend or alter the common parts to make it impossible for the tenant to carry on its business , the following additional wording may be considered : |
| 25 | This myth is believed all over the world despite the fact that the weight of the armour makes it impossible for the clam to close rapidly . |
| 26 | It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away . |
| 27 | The West Indian family values education , but the way it goes about it makes it impossible for the kids . |
| 28 | The present situation in Russia makes it impossible for the centre to control this process . |
| 29 | This makes it impossible for the poor to move to that neighbourhood . |
| 30 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |