Example sentences of "made it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 2 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 3 | But there was something about Doyle 's voice that made it impossible to interrupt . |
| 4 | Where bone from burials had been retained , the frequent lack of adequate documentation made it impossible to associate definitively one particular skeleton with a given Beaker pot . |
| 5 | He had made no plans : fatigue made it impossible for him to think rationally . |
| 6 | Defeated in his climb , he had been descending , heading for the window , hoping he could hammer on it and attract someone 's attention , but ice and spindrift made it impossible to see where he was going ; and now he was trapped . |
| 7 | Her unfortunate gaffe over tea made it impossible for Elisabeth to offer any excuse when Mitzi Baum accosted her on the stairs on the way to dinner and asked her to share her table . |
| 8 | His desire to be always in absolute control made it impossible for him to seek the medical and psychological help he needed and he had no close friends to persuade him . |
| 9 | Corman directed most of the picture but then had stop because union rules , to which he adhered religiously in terms of actors ' and technicians ' payments , made it impossible to continue with a fully fledged production team . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 12 | From the wheelhouse the high-railed bow made it impossible to see immediately ahead . |
| 13 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 14 | The crytic stage in the choroid plexus may also give the ‘ tryps ’ time to alter their surface antigens , and so escape destruction by the immune system ; the trick that has , to date , made it impossible to construct vaccines effective against them . |
| 15 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 16 | For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom ( v. 21 ) . |
| 17 | Vologsky kept his face grave , but the surging relief inside him made it impossible to inject quite the right note of abject apology into his voice . |
| 18 | They made it impossible for me to stay . |
| 19 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 20 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |
| 21 | Spencer had always been the favoured one , beloved by mother since his difficult birth made it impossible for her to have any more children . |
| 22 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There , a mosaic of national and racial groups and the sensitivity of great powers made it impossible to find either simple or peaceful geographical solutions to political problems . |
| 25 | peace was patched up on the basis of the status quo but military victory made it impossible to destroy the new Bulgarian union . |
| 26 | Something wrong with the glass — like a mirror in an amusement hall which contorted the viewer — made it impossible to guess his real appearance . |
| 27 | In her study of young Asian men and women who were unemployed , Brah notes that sons with widowed mothers felt under particular pressure to support them financially and practically , and when unemployment made it impossible for them to do so they felt ‘ an acute sense of failure ’ as one of her interviewees put it , |
| 28 | But British administration made it impossible to charge someone openly with killing another by witchcraft . |
| 29 | I realised that the detail and the logic of the story made it impossible not to believe Fearnley . |
| 30 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |