Example sentences of "[pron] impossible [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Right now he 's probably the number one rock star and teen idol in the Soviet Union something impossible to imagine several years ago .
2 The reversal of the conventional speech/writing hierarchy which is implied in the term archi-écriture makes it impossible to see any use of language , written or spoken , as being determined by presence , intention or representation .
3 The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents .
4 It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically .
5 The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded .
6 The inadequate statistical material available makes it impossible to prove either claim .
7 The very different behaviour of coordinate time t and the proper time τ when the probe approaches and crosses the horizon illustrates vividly how spacetime curvature makes it impossible to cover all space–time with one set of Cartesian coordinates .
8 The lack of an appropriate animal model makes it impossible to investigate this question further at present .
9 Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership .
10 The position for the international station chosen by Baxter would make it impossible to provide any route between Thameslink and the east coast main line .
11 Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 .
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