Example sentences of "it was impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state . |
| 2 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 3 | Here it was impossible not to be happy . |
| 4 | LONDON — Margaret Thatcher said yesterday it was impossible for Britain to take in millions of refugees from Hong Kong and urged China to take steps to restore the colony 's confidence , AP reports . |
| 5 | Moscow News quoted an Interior Ministry colonel as saying it was impossible even for convoys with a military escort to cross into Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 6 | Soviet newspapers said it was impossible even for convoys with a military escort to enter Nagorny Karabakh and compared the situation with Afghanistan . |
| 7 | As it was impossible to hear what he was saying above the din of the bombardment , he pointed to the area outside the farm indicating that Lovat was somewhere there . |
| 8 | He told his sister how it was impossible to listen , and how he felt compelled to pull horrible nervous faces all the time . |
| 9 | Rachel was undeniably wonderful with the baby ; and took such joy from having Maggie with her that it was impossible for even Phoebe to feel much guilt about the times when she was free . |
| 10 | Phoebe had too short a fuse , and it was impossible to guess how she would be , each meeting had to be gauged with care , and it had always been so . |
| 11 | He was n't allowed to use one question because the quizmasters said it was impossible to prove the exactness of the answer . |
| 12 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 13 | Much as his parents might have wanted Charles to have a normal upbringing , it was impossible . |
| 14 | The doctors were so evasive that it was impossible to get anything definite from them . |
| 15 | He felt now that it was impossible to know other people until one saw how they reacted in extremity or under pressure . |
| 16 | He was himself later to acknowledge the inadequacy of a production policy that drew so heavily on stage plays , particularly at a period before the arrival of sound when it was impossible , for example , to do more than allude to the savagery of Noël Coward 's attack on his social set in The Vortex ( 1927 ) . |
| 17 | Last week he said it was impossible to defeat the IRA militarily , which left a policy of containment . |
| 18 | It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy . |
| 19 | Lord Justice McCowan said it was impossible to hold that the Home Secretary 's political judgment was one that no reasonable Home Secretary could hold . |
| 20 | A pathologist told the inquest it was impossible to say what caused Mrs Scott 's death . |
| 21 | Lou Macari , the West Ham manager , was reported to have said it was impossible to control players once they had taken the field . |
| 22 | By the same token , Tony DeFries had a clause in the contract that if the promoter lost money he would pay it to him , so it was impossible for a promoter to actually risk anything . |
| 23 | It was impossible for the nuclear power stations to match those demands . |
| 24 | Earlier this century , some cosmologists argued that it was impossible to theorise coherently about the beginning of the universe , let alone about the end . |
| 25 | It was impossible to hug and kiss her with those letters in the background ( all the more , since this was to be their first , and thus an unforgettable , kiss ) , and so he had no choice but to turn back with a bitter sense of capitulation . |
| 26 | My time at the DHSS showed that it was impossible to make any significant change without a fierce public and professional battle — even when improvement meant more resources for health care or put right long-standing problems . |
| 27 | Equally , it was impossible to hide anything from him . |
| 28 | The builders worked throughout the weekend , so with their hammering and concrete mixing and loud radios , it was impossible to ignore their presence . |
| 29 | He rolled over , thinking resentfully that it was impossible to go to sleep . |
| 30 | The triumphant feeling that it was impossible to try any harder . |