Example sentences of "[pers pn] is impossible [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder that the heads of Deutsche Bank or Dresdener Bank today have the Chancellor 's ear' : or that it is impossible to acquire German banks . |
| 2 | However , individual census household schedules are kept secret by the hundred-year rule , and it is impossible to use civil registers to reconstruct individual life histories and family formation . |
| 3 | Leadership is axiomatic to human resource management and it is impossible to draw neat boundaries between the various principles identified in this chapter . |
| 4 | It is impossible to resolve these problems since there is no information which would allow us to pass judgements on them . |
| 5 | Equally , it is impossible to analyse social systems as consisting of norms and values and power relationships without examining the way in which they actually impinge on people . |
| 6 | It is impossible to give hard-and-fast rules , but here are some points to consider : |
| 7 | It is impossible to give exact figures for non-returners for a number of reasons . |
| 8 | It is impossible to present right-brain concepts as reasonable or understandable to people who have suppressed the greater part of their right-brain abilities and function virtually entirely in the left-brain approach . |
| 9 | It is impossible to quantify these concepts precisely and the assumption that changes are small is more likely to be valid in large-scale problems ( where one coefficient , for example , is less important in relation to the rest of the data ) than in the simple examples used for illustration , but the underlying principles are independent of such considerations . |
| 10 | With many tax options available for local authorities , it is impossible to consider all possibilities thoroughly within this chapter . |
| 11 | It claims it is impossible to get maximum returns for timber when trying to meet other objectives . |
| 12 | It is impossible to forget these mothers and the matter-of-fact way in which they relate their experiences , an indication that they know their suffering is by no means unique . |
| 13 | It is impossible to recall contaminated eggs as they are distributed to packing stations around the country , where they are packed under British brand names . |
| 14 | Despite the extensive sampling during the excavation of the sixth and seventh century settlement at Cowdery 's Down the results prompted the excavator to offer a warning about interpreting the results ; it was concluded that ‘ it is impossible to make any assertions about the economy or waste disposal systems associated with the site ’ ( Green 1983 , p. 261 ) . |
| 15 | Because of the differences in structure and gradings in the above two assessments , it is impossible to make direct comparisons , but the 1989 review includes within its Category 16 ( Other Physical Sciences ) , such diverse subjects as astronomy , oceanography , and meteorology , some of which have teaching and research connections with the earth sciences . |
| 16 | It is impossible to write such criteria . |