Example sentences of "found it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preparing the soil in this way means that you are less likely to suffer from too many plant deaths where the roots of young plants have found it impossible to penetrate the soil . |
| 2 | Others , visiting Paris , would sit in Notre Dame to observe the pulpit techniques of French preachers although the listeners would have found it impossible to order a bifteck from a tolerant waiter . |
| 3 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |
| 4 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 5 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 6 | For several weeks , Tobias Beventini had found it impossible to speak of the apprentice he had chosen to follow , to dissect , to guide , in a medical way , towards the real , adult world . |
| 7 | ‘ You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as the heir to the throne without the help and support of the woman I now loathe . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Up to now ’ , Miss Honey went on , ‘ I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems . |
| 9 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 10 | I have found it impossible to convince young people in the latter stages of their compulsory education of the need to gain skills with which to enter full-time work . |
| 11 | She had initially found it impossible to believe that a respected , churchgoing man could have been pushed beyond the limit of his endurance and have killed . |
| 12 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 13 | She sensed that , even in contesting her decision to make use of the Lodge , her father had found it impossible to speak his full revulsion for the place . |
| 14 | She had always found it impossible to lie to Julius , though . |
| 15 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 16 | These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions . |
| 17 | At that point Jennifer had just had to give up her own job as she had found it impossible to continue nursing and Rachel could clearly remember the night she 'd found her sister severely depressed about her future . |