Example sentences of "impossible for any " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible for any glider pilot to make a high cloud climb and to be sure of his position . |
| 2 | In particular it widened the gap between Labour and National Labour , and made it quite impossible for any reunion to take place . |
| 3 | It is mathematically impossible for any Democratic rival to overhaul Clinton in the primary process . |
| 4 | It is not difficult but plain impossible for any poll to anticipate swings of opinion , such as certainly took place last week . |
| 5 | It was recognised , however , that such a solution was nigh on impossible for any but the simplest systems — and this is still true today , despite massive increases in computing power . |
| 6 | In any living venture , it is impossible for any of the partners to be detached from the natural dynamics of working together in the project and there may have to be a realignment of membership during the course of the enterprise . |
| 7 | Without claws it is impossible for any cat to scratch itself efficiently and the whole grooming pattern suffers as a result . |
| 8 | It was impossible for any society to absorb without hardship a shock like that of the massive loss of trade to Gdynia . |
| 9 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 10 | It is impossible for any of us to monitor carefully every single thing we say — how boring and stilted our speech would be if we did — but it is as well to remember that young children take the spoken word very literally , and a great deal of harm can be caused by the use of thoughtless and insensitive phrases . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land . |
| 12 | The provision of such a variety of telecommunication and travel facilities makes it impossible for any community however large or small to develop in isolation . |
| 13 | But when the horses are called Bosnia , Maastricht and the British Economy , it becomes almost impossible for any rider to sit pretty . |
| 14 | Of course , as for any other trait , it may be impossible for any one homozygous genotype to achieve the optimum . |
| 15 | She had a feeling of being carried such distances by the water that it was impossible for any more harm to come to her . |
| 16 | The second defect is that the suggestion is too strong and is likely to make it impossible for any of us to know anything at all . |
| 17 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 18 | Butler herself presented a memorial to the Foreign Secretary , signed by a thousand women and calling for changes in the law , so that ‘ it should be impossible for any young girl to be deprived of her liberty by fraud or force ’ . |
| 19 | It thus became impossible for any king in future to prolong indefinitely the life of a complaisant House of Commons , as Charles II had done with the ‘ Cavalier Parliament ’ of 1661–79 . |
| 20 | No mourners followed but an unmarked car appeared in the road and made it impossible for any vehicle to tail the hearse . |
| 21 | For a welfare-maximizing equilibrium , the Tiebout mechanism must create a situation whereby it is impossible for any individual to increase utility as a result of changing communities . |
| 22 | Immediately behind him sat Howard and Shirley Brown , silent and sombre , each thinking thoughts that were quite impossible for any observer to ascertain — even for the two of them themselves fully to comprehend . |
| 23 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |