Example sentences of "make it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONCE again baseless charges of lewdness and indecency in this column make it impossible for me to report the following headline in the newsletter of Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries : ‘ What 's Five Inches Long — and Worth £200 ? ’ |
| 2 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 3 | Family and employment pressures make it impossible for many parents to offer help and their feelings and attitudes need careful consideration . |
| 4 | It can also in effect make it impossible for them to participate in the community and thus deprives them of an important aspect of citizenship . |
| 5 | In fact , the erratic supplies of kerosene and LPG make it impossible for many middle-class families to rely on one source of energy . |
| 6 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 7 | The variety of routes taken by couples make it impossible to track the course most frequently taken . |
| 8 | The differing quality aspects of these zones make it impossible to specify a particular style of wine for Hautvillers . |
| 9 | We make it impossible to use , when in fact that voice might greatly strengthen our writing . |
| 10 | Severe restrictions on human rights monitoring make it impossible to know precisely how many are being held . |
| 11 | But their versatility and the unpredictability of the individual moral dilemma , including , in particular , the implications of competing reasons which may be brought to bear , make it impossible to specify the courses of action in support of which these reasons will necessarily lend themselves . |
| 12 | These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems . |
| 13 | The various local and international fluctuations in market forces make it impossible to fix the price of oriental rugs in terms of cash amounts ; regardless of their accuracy at the time of writing , they would soon become out of date . |
| 14 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 15 | The belated impact of Saussurian semiotics , Althusserian and other neo- and post-marxist theories of ideology , Lacanian psychoanalysis and its account of subjectivity and identity , the tradition of British cultural studies associated with people like Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall , various strands of feminism , Foucault 's concern with discourse and power : these are just some of the developments that today make it impossible to think of culture as a finite and self-sufficient body of contents , customs and traditions . |
| 16 | A lack of capital , the tied cottage system , and the workers ' age and lack of formal qualifications make it impossible for many to move to better jobs elsewhere ( Newby 1972a ) . |
| 17 | The Ponting case also illustrates the ways in which the legitimacy of the state may be threatened if any of its various temporary governors act in a way which breaks down the distinction between state and government , and by wrapping the acts of particular governments in the flag of the state , make it impossible to attack one without assaulting the other . |
| 18 | But the ( often severe ) tensions and conflicts so evident in their formation make it impossible to rest on explanations m market and liberal terms . |
| 19 | The last of these poses a special problem , since the terms of Lady Barber 's bequest make it impossible for temporary exhibitions to take place within the building . |
| 20 | Such inconsistencies make it impossible to cover a spherical surface using Cartesian coordinates . |
| 21 | The limitations of a questionnaire make it impossible to determine the extent to which visits to the classroom were part of a planned health education programme and whether they were reactive or proactive visits . |
| 22 | The inadequacies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the surviving charters , even when supplemented by such other fragments as the skaldic poetry and the Letters of 1019 – 20 and 1027 , make it impossible to construct a decent chronology of his reign , while Wulfstan 's legal texts are far from straightforward as guides to his administration . |
| 23 | The spectrum of activities make it impossible to understand all the business processes and priorities . |
| 24 | In the school library , time constraints make it impossible to do everything the school librarian would like to do in microcomputer applications . |
| 25 | North Yorkshire and South Durham THE proven consistency over recent seasons of Redcar , Darlington and Guisborough make it impossible to look elsewhere for this season 's champions . |
| 26 | What he says here it says , There are an investment project , Miss Whittaker , whose size , composition , economic significance and locational requirements make it impossible to locate on an ordinary site , so that 's one one issue , and then he says , Of regional significance or more often national or international significance . |