Example sentences of "it be impossible " in BNC.

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1 So the creation of a pan-European standard would not be easy — but neither would it be impossible .
2 Alternatively the relevant available procedure should be substituted , should it be impossible to fix the sum : see p. 20 of the 1991 guide , para. 6.7 .
3 ‘ Why should it be impossible ? ’
4 Not only would it be impossible to identify the goods which were at the buyer 's risk but also it would be impossible to identify any goods which were pro rata at his risk .
5 In such circumstances , would not it be impossible thereafter for Members of Parliament with Scottish constituencies to sit in Departments as Ministers , administering those Departments —
6 Would not it be impossible for Ministers to be in charge of Government Departments administering those matters for England and Wales ?
7 ‘ I think , ’ she remarked , ‘ it has pleased God to punish them justly , for they really talkt as if it were impossible they should be beaten . ’
8 The upper octave of the passage is divided between the two pairs of horns , it being impossible to maintain such rapid tonguing for more than a very short time .
9 It being impossible to hit him with Marguerite looking on , Jenna slid into the passenger seat and kept silent .
10 That is , it is possible to hold as true a number of theories about the world , it being impossible to choose between them on strictly evidential grounds .
11 ‘ You were right , of course , about it being impossible to carry through the fantasy look and dress Therese as a fairy heroine .
12 That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched .
13 It 's impossible to see the fat that 's in a crisp , or biscuit , or chocolate bar .
14 Medically , it 's impossible for someone who has lost their sight due to glaucoma to get it back . ’
15 It has no weaknesses , it 's impossible to fight . ’
16 Nikki Milican jumps to their defence : ‘ It 's impossible to talk about performance art and not sound pretentious .
17 In our opinion , the driveline is the best BMW has yet made and , despite the change of dynamic emphasis , it 's impossible not to derive great pleasure from this alone .
18 I 'd say he was dead by eleven but it 's impossible to be accurate about these things .
19 It 's impossible to say — not very long . ’
20 However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer .
21 Although I do n't think it 's impossible that it ca n't be the other way , that two people ca n't grow toward each other .
22 There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine .
23 On the subject of using the past , making references , it 's just that it 's impossible to evade the past , it 's here , it 's being thrown at you , and you have to deal with it .
24 It 's impossible , her mind was saying .
25 It 's impossible , ’ said Nigel , ‘ there ca n't be a villa here . ’
26 It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia .
27 It 's impossible to explain .
28 It 's impossible that Evelyn could be … but was it so impossible ?
29 Because there are no definite growing seasons in the tropics , trees do n't have rings ; so without actually watching them and measuring them grow , it 's impossible to date them .
30 It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map .
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