Example sentences of "it is impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many people attempting to escape from state persecution , it is impossible to apply for a passport to the very authorities who are inflicting the persecution . |
| 2 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |
| 3 | Kelman makes Doyle charming , and it is impossible to read the book without gaining the sense of a fully-developed authorial fellow-feeling . |
| 4 | It can not be ; it is impossible : |
| 5 | It is impossible to judge the value of cutlery without knowing the alloy content . |
| 6 | Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link . |
| 7 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 8 | It is impossible for any glider pilot to make a high cloud climb and to be sure of his position . |
| 9 | It is impossible to deny that V has a different mode of access to the external world from BS , for V can see and BS can not . |
| 10 | The problem with any general behaviouristic account of knowledge is that it is impossible to make sense of any behavioural description without being able to make sense independently of statements about how the world is . |
| 11 | So , for example , it is impossible to make sense of a statement that S is disposed to behave in a certain way unless one already understands the concepts required to understand the content of the relevant behaviour . |
| 12 | It is impossible to tell , from the physical attributes of a nerve impulse , whether it is conveying information about light , about sound or about smell . |
| 13 | But was she trying to confuse the plot by saying : ‘ I know that it is impossible for me to win four Grand Slam tournaments this year . ’ |
| 14 | It is impossible exactly to define what is modern dance because the body is the same that has danced for hundreds of years . |
| 15 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 16 | It is impossible to understand why Eliot should have excluded the ‘ Propertius ’ from his selection of Pound 's work . |
| 17 | Whatever the ideological preoccupations of the Prime Minister , it is impossible for the Government to take no view and to play no role when the future of an infrastructural project with the potential impact of the Channel tunnel is in question . |
| 18 | But it is impossible to say whether a structure , along the lines alleged , exists . |
| 19 | ‘ It is impossible to determine the precise motive , ’ a spokesman for the Brussels prosecutor 's office commented . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Politically , it is impossible to tell who is in charge of economic policy . |
| 22 | It is impossible to know the extent to which this knowledge had a reactive effect in the field , although the research was designed in such a way as to try to establish , as well as one ever could , whether there was a mask behind which respondents were concealing their true behaviour and feelings . |
| 23 | Occasionally it was suspected that the behaviour of respondents was being affected by the presence of the field-worker , to what extent it is impossible to estimate , but this is the disadvantage of all overt research techniques and is not unique to ethnography . |
| 24 | The ethnographer 's conventional notepad can be obtrusive , yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift , it is impossible to dispense with it , for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously ; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive . |
| 25 | That is , how to convey to members of the public that their request or complaint is taken seriously even though it is impossible to act upon it . |
| 26 | It is impossible to have even approximate figures for the diaspora . |
| 27 | It is impossible to exaggerate the revolutionary significance of the recognition of a binding judicial tribunal external to the realm . |
| 28 | We feel it is impossible at present because of the Commonwealth . ’ |
| 29 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 30 | Since the ‘ history of belief and feeling ’ can not be traced , it is impossible to conclude which alternative is the true one . |