Example sentences of "makes it impossible " in BNC.

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1 Early dusk makes it impossible to enjoy the garden during the week , except in the middle of summer .
2 The setting of particularly high standards for uniformity and internal consistency makes it impossible to speak of the existence of almost any ‘ ism ’ in policy .
3 The ubiquity of the Jewish theme in his public addresses at this time makes it impossible to imagine that early converts to Nazism could fail to regard violent anti-Semitism as a leading feature of Hitler 's image .
4 This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution , as one can in astronomy .
5 Hounslow 's headquarters have been at the Church Meadow ground for 70 years but sharing with a cricket club makes it impossible to lay a synthetic surface there .
6 The complexity of modern European economies makes it impossible to believe that rural community self-sufficiency can be achieved in isolation from urban and industrial economy .
7 This is mainly the fault of the shop assistants , all of whom climb mountains and will stand discussing Munros with you for 45 minutes , which makes it impossible to leave without buying something .
8 The process of becoming successful makes it impossible for fans and the band to visualise and treat each other in the same way .
9 By analogy , therefore , where the refusal of planning permission makes it impossible for a defendant to comply with the terms of a nuisance order , this could be regarded as a reasonable excuse .
10 There is no simple formula by which this may be achieved , and its very nature makes it impossible to draw up a catalogue of final behaviours to be acquired .
11 Apart from this , the very large number of higher education libraries now active in user education in the UK makes it impossible in a brief survey to take a library-by-library approach .
12 It makes it impossible for them to pursue their careers and the average hospital bill that faces them often exceeds $ 100 000 .
13 This myth is believed all over the world despite the fact that the weight of the armour makes it impossible for the clam to close rapidly .
14 It makes it impossible for anyone to creep around your house without making a noise .
15 This cyclical fluctuation in volume is due to-the operation of the camcorder 's automatic gain control which is all the time trying to maintain a constant sound level irrespective of the natural level of the incoming signal , an effect which makes it impossible to reproduce true audio perspectives .
16 It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away .
17 Dr C. N. Manlove writes ‘ the Voice ’ off as ‘ providential ’ , and clearly thinks it one more example of the ‘ biased fortune ’ which in his opinion makes it impossible to take the story seriously .
18 Taking note of every small detail that occurs makes it impossible to take part in active discussion .
19 A second , more serious , problem is that , very often , the nature of the child 's language problem makes it impossible to speak to the child ‘ natur-ally ’ ; the adult is forced to employ ‘ unnatural ’ language and to adopt ad hoc conversational strategies .
20 The Red-Hot Gruncher makes it impossible for us to walk anywhere in the wood . ’
21 Over the same period , Isabella Kacprzak , at Maria-Hilf-Strasse 17 , will be presenting three artists each showing a work from an earlier period and filling one room : ‘ Trittbrett ’ ( Running-board ) by Jurgen Drescher , an 8-metre long sculpture which , in the truest sense of the word , makes it impossible to jump aboard the moving train ; the abstract stereometric forms of rusted metal by Miroslaw Balka , and finally a folding screen with glass artefacts by Asta Groting .
22 The West Indian family values education , but the way it goes about it makes it impossible for the kids .
23 The provision of such a variety of telecommunication and travel facilities makes it impossible for any community however large or small to develop in isolation .
24 The resurgence of interest in cognitive processes makes it impossible to hold such a simple view any longer and nowadays most psychologists recognize that there are psychological processes , like verbal communication and the symbolic representation of future events , that can only reliably be demonstrated in other people .
25 what Chodorow retains of the psychical that makes it impossible for her to consider social relations in any but the most simplistic way .
26 The present situation in Russia makes it impossible for the centre to control this process .
27 In the period under discussion , the Zande number about half a million and live mainly as cultivators growing maize , sweet potatoes , ground-nuts and some fruit ; the presence of tsetse fly makes it impossible to keep cattle .
28 We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible .
29 The viability of the Tychonic system makes it impossible to divide the intellectual world-of the early seventeenth century into pro- and anti-Copernicans , still less to countenance the remark of one historian that the English Civil War was fought between Copernicans and Ptolemaics .
30 This , however , makes it impossible for them to feed during the larval stage , as free-swimming tadpoles can do , so they have to nourish themselves with specially large quantities of yolk .
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