Example sentences of "it almost impossible [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But there is deepening pessimism that a full one point advance will be announced which will make it almost impossible for base rates to remain unchanged .
2 The nature of the Premier League club chairmen , most of whom are highly successful businsessmen , not without confidence in their own judgement , makes it almost impossible for them to give others carte blanche .
3 Prussian law made it almost impossible for the Kaszubians who wanted to expand their holdings to do so by buying land from Germans .
4 Cuts of that level would decimate the existing service and make it almost impossible for underdeveloped areas of the service such as facilities for children with physical disabilities , imaginative respite , and family-based care schemes and improved under-fives facilities to be developed .
5 The number and density of flying bodies make it almost impossible for them to select and catch a particular individual .
6 ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . )
7 Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche .
8 They make it almost impossible for outsiders to get through army cordons and into the region .
9 The Alliance , an opposition grouping of five minor parties which had achieved 14 per cent of the vote in the 1990 election but secured only one of the 97 seats , campaigned strongly for change on the grounds that the current system made it almost impossible for minor parties to gain significant parliamentary representation .
10 Hoeveler 's decision appeared to make it almost impossible for the US authorities to imprison Noriega in the type of high security facility as expected , without violating his prisoner of war rights .
11 Early last year , in an interview with a low-circulation Blues fanzine , Bowyer stated that the current political climate in Northern Ireland would make it almost impossible for Catholics to cross the sectarian divide and play for Linfield .
12 Cars parked on both sides of the road made it almost impossible for buses to pass each other on a popular bus route .
13 ‘ I also know that Mrs Chapman has arthritis which makes it almost impossible for her to climb those stairs to the little flat , ’ I added for good measure .
14 The empty pot was heavy and Asik found it very difficult to walk without carrying anything , but the pot made it almost impossible for him to move at any speed .
15 Too much power lies with the Council of Ministers who meet in secret , making it almost impossible for the public , national governments and the European Parliament to follow their decision making process .
16 Senior party figures ( such as Creech Jones on the Labour side after 1951 or Christopher Soames on the Conservative side after 1966 ) have found it almost impossible to be selected .
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