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

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1 This does not make it impossible for a domestic market to be dominated and then abused , but it is far less likely to happen .
2 A recent bereavement may make it impossible for a participant in a drama class to join in a drama about the Plague of London or the death of Cordelia .
3 His perceptual difficulties may make it impossible for him to recognize you and his immediate family or your relationship with him .
4 The loan requirements shall not be so stringent that it will make it impossible for a businessman to acquire these loans .
5 There is also the possibility of your neighbour erecting a wall within his own land , which would then make it impossible for you to carry out any maintenance works , even if you were able to gain access to your neighbour 's land .
6 He worked slowly but efficiently for nearly two hours , fearing that , if he did not finish the work quickly , frost would make it impossible for him to continue ; then , tired and sweating , he went and sat on the front doorstep to rest .
7 He is dependent on the permission of others for every step he takes , and if they so wish they can make it impossible for him to carry on any concrete activity .
8 The Bosnian Serbs refused to sign the Vance-Owen plan because , if it were ever implemented , it would make it impossible for this generation of Serbs to link Serbia proper with the Serb-held parts of Bosnia and Croatia to make them a single state .
9 Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research .
10 Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions .
11 Amendment No. 3 would make it impossible for a Scottish Bus Group subsidiary to be resold within five years without the consent of its employees .
12 Although the story of Croton 's lost Helen admitted that no single girl of the southern peninsula in those days was entirely beautiful enough , it was still recalled by the attending spectators at the Sunday promenade , by the old men and women no longer in the marriage stakes , by the servants whom custom forbade from parading — as if the cost of new or spruced-up clothes did not make it impossible for them to take part anyway .
13 The plural text will undo the classical image of a tangible author sending a tangible message to a tangible reader ; and the more plural a text is , the more it will make it impossible for the reader to find any origin for it , whether it be in the form of an authorial voice , a representational content or a philosophical truth .
14 She must make it impossible for Theda to refuse .
15 In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract .
16 Design faults at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania would make it impossible for operators to control a nuclear accident , according to engineers who worked on the plant 's construction .
17 He has written on the issue to the new Fisheries Minister , Gillian Shephard , claiming that certain technical requirements in the Act could make it impossible for local fishermen to secure an adequate allocation of fishing days Royal crystal challenge STAFF at Welsh Royal Crystal , Rhayader , were commissioned to manufacture and supply the specially designed bowls which will be presented to each concert winner in the preliminary rounds , as well as goblets for each competitor , in this year 's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition at St David 's Hall .
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