Example sentences of "find it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 2 | I find it impossible to begin to think about the phenomena which are giving you anxiety and which , I assure you , are giving me anxiety , without some elementary attempt to classify those phenomena . |
| 3 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 4 | While unable to sympathise with Hewlett 's aesthetic sufferings , I find it impossible not to admire the iron nerve with which he chronicles them . |
| 5 | Many old people in particular find it impossible to retire for the night without washing up and leaving everything tidy . |
| 6 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 7 | Because the total numbers of animals on islands tend to be small , large predators in general find it impossible to exist at all — except , of course , for creatures such as seals and sealions , which feed at sea and come ashore only to breed or bask . |
| 8 | But despite the positive counselling they may well receive , many parents , especially fathers , find it impossible to come to terms with the nature of their son or daughter . |
| 9 | Unless you are very easy-going and also fortunate , you are bound sooner or later to meet someone through your job whom you find it impossible to like . |
| 10 | Some people find it impossible to sleep a wink on a long night journey in a train . |
| 11 | ‘ They are educated , as Prince Charles had been , with other boys at a boarding school and they find it impossible to deal with an hysterical woman . |
| 12 | I find it impossible to comprehend the scale of this arena , and that afternoon provided a great opportunity to relax in the mountains and let them have their effect on us . |
| 13 | Sometimes it is slightly easier to say ‘ No ’ over the telephone , but face to face many women find it impossible . |
| 14 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 15 | Secondly , I find it impossible to accept that general practice is a specialty . |
| 16 | Addition ( 1974 ) : Churning out the same stuff gives one that sick , ecky feeling in the head and I think in advanced cases the feeling is counter corrected in the head to one of numbed atrophy which is shown in those people who find it impossible to let thought in conversation run fluidly-fluently but must talk tensely about weather , colour of curtains , ailments , grouses . |
| 17 | Recovering gradually , the travellers find it impossible to re-activate the TARDIS 's flight systems , and even machinery that supplies food and drink , though still in action , registers ‘ Empty ’ . |
| 18 | Indeed , we find it impossible to imagine a plausible moral philosophy which could justify our present penal practices or anything like them . |
| 19 | I find it impossible to believe that the Director would contemplate sending an official to interview a defendant during his trial , even if there were anything to be gained from such a course , which is hard to see , given that his answers would not be admissible . |
| 20 | I find it impossible to accept that this was Parliament 's intention . |
| 21 | And you can not stop there , because I find it impossible to interpret the Act as meaning that the three years are to run from that date . |
| 22 | But even given a generous approach to this construction , I find it impossible to attach the breadth of meaning to the word ‘ question ’ which the Attorney-General urges . |
| 23 | And I think that even patients with lung cancer find it impossible to smo , stop smoking That is , perhaps , not so important , but what is much more important is that their families find it impossible to stop smoking ! |
| 24 | And I think that even patients with lung cancer find it impossible to smo , stop smoking That is , perhaps , not so important , but what is much more important is that their families find it impossible to stop smoking ! |
| 25 | ‘ I just find it impossible to get into character here . ’ |
| 26 | MANY Arts graduates now find it impossible to obtain a post that matches their training and ability , unless they are willing to teach . |
| 27 | ‘ I find it impossible to make my hair look neat and stylish for any length of time because it is so difficult to manage . |
| 28 | ‘ I have known Alain all his life and I find it impossible to believe that he would commit suicide . |
| 29 | Very few people find it impossible to get to Flowers East . |
| 30 | An applicant may , for example , find it impossible to give a respondent sufficient notice of an application as specified in the rules . |