Example sentences of "it [vb past] impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became impossible at that time to use words like ‘ proletarian ’ , ‘ working class ’ or ‘ Blue Col ’ . |
| 2 | Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany . |
| 3 | The storm clouds gathered , the rain poured down and as the skies darkened , it became impossible to see the ball . |
| 4 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |
| 5 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 6 | But because his personality was objectionable one held him responsible for his ugliness — it became impossible to overlook it . |
| 7 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 8 | The paper 's first deadline had been 15 May 1968 , but it became impossible to hit it , and there was , as the May Events washed around the staff , another problem . |
| 9 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 10 | AR : After Inday and I were forced from our land by the Del Monte Corporation , it became impossible for us to make ends meet . |
| 11 | In the turmoil which followed the Budget , it became impossible for ministers to conceal that , once again , the Government was in a muddle , making policy on the hoof around television and radio studios . |
| 12 | In the eighteenth century it seemed impossible to build a barn without creating a work of art . |
| 13 | For a long time it seemed impossible to refer to Communists without using the words ‘ conspiracy ’ and ‘ sons of bitches ’ . |
| 14 | Oh , she did n't know what she meant , she must be going mad , it seemed impossible to think about anything in a straightforward way . |
| 15 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 16 | It seemed impossible that , from such a large and fertile dossier , absolutely nothing had emerged . |
| 17 | There was so much snow that it seemed impossible that this was not the natural surface of the earth . |
| 18 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 19 | But always it seemed impossible that you would ever sit on the polished seat of a flushing lavatory again . |
| 20 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 21 | When it seemed impossible to sink any lower , the team rose to the challenge and sputtered their way through a pitiful draw with Iran , in which an own goal saved them from defeat . |
| 22 | Bransby Cooper ( Sir Astley 's nephew ) who knew Coleman personally for many years , said it seemed impossible not to love one so agreeable , kind-hearted , and blessed with all those qualities which endear man to man . |
| 23 | At first it seemed impossible to cope with two employers with their contrasting attitudes towards money . |
| 24 | The hope persisted , though often it seemed impossible . |
| 25 | The early evening sun was warm on her face and the sky so clear and calm that it seemed impossible so beautiful a world could be at war ; that small , beautiful world that was Yeoman 's Lane , and Tingle 's Wood , through which it ran . |
| 26 | I was in no mood to write ; it seemed impossible . |
| 27 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 28 | It seemed impossible that the leopard could cross that open space , on which grew only a few clumps of coarse grass , without being seen . |
| 29 | It seemed impossible that anyone could survive in the middle of that storm of blades . |
| 30 | It seemed impossible that this might become a battlefield , and perhaps it would not , for Sharpe was already beginning to doubt what he had seen that same morning . |