Example sentences of "[be] impossible [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that these questions seem incapable of being answered , it would be impossible to assign any definite content to a duty framed in terms of benefiting the enterprise as such . |
| 2 | The hubbub was so intense that it would be impossible to hold any private conversation . |
| 3 | You have very little room for manoeuvre within this service , and the Registrar General has reserve powers to impose services on you , and I would have to advice you it would be virtually , or I would have to say it would be impossible to achieve that ongoing reduction in future years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Simon was to the point : ‘ It is impossible to credit any single hairdresser , so I would like to put forward three greats — Trevor Sorbie and Anthony Mascolo ’ . |
| 6 | Although the cases lay down the rule that a distinction between general skill and knowledge and business secrets must be maintained , it is impossible to formulate any general test . |
| 7 | Without some historic realignment on the left , it is impossible to see any serious moves in this direction being made in the next five years . |
| 8 | 1.60 It is impossible to give any clear indication of what level or percentage of the damages the interim payment will be . |
| 9 | It is impossible to select any important part of it without soon realising that its root is firmly grounded in atheism . |
| 10 | It is impossible to make any such comparison without knowing what the institutional arrangements of the system would be . |
| 11 | Without reading some history it is impossible to have any true conception of the life at court . |
| 12 | It is a consequence of the definition that it is impossible to increase any objective function at an efficient solution without decreasing another . |
| 13 | However , it is impossible to produce some rural weighting which is generalisable to all rural areas . |
| 14 | It is impossible to obtain any foreign newspaper or magazine whatsoever in Belgrade . |
| 15 | It is impossible to perceive any global coincidence at all between ecological or economic factors and family types . |
| 16 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 17 | As I see it , the considerations set out above and taken as a whole lead irresistibly to the conclusion that , when considering the expression ‘ any person ’ in the sections , it is impossible to identify any particular limitation which can be said , with any degree of confidence , to represent the presumed intention of Parliament . |
| 18 | What we do know is that it is impossible to write any human being off as permanently damaged . |
| 19 | Second , given that the Earth 's major greenhouse gas , water vapour , varies greatly with latitude and altitude , it is impossible to calculate that net greenhouse effect without knowing where heat is deposited by the dynamic heat transports . |
| 20 | It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy . |
| 21 | By the time the matter came to this court , it was impossible to take any other view . |
| 22 | As a consequence it was impossible to draw any practical conclusions from the results of this evaluation exercise . |
| 23 | It was so wreathed in smoke that it was impossible to distinguish any important features . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |