Example sentences of "it [be] impossible [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The upper octave of the passage is divided between the two pairs of horns , it being impossible to maintain such rapid tonguing for more than a very short time .
2 It 's impossible to see these spines growing , but easy to record their growth with a series of photographs taken from the same place over the course of a couple of months .
3 Mm , but it 's impossible to prove that is
4 So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July .
5 It 's difficult to exaggerate the importance of developing good study habits , yet it 's impossible to prescribe any one , single set of study habits for all students .
6 Well , no security is one hundred per cent , it 's impossible to make any area completely secure , but it 's as tight as it possibly can be and I 'm quite happy with the security at the present time .
7 It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map .
8 No wonder that the heads of Deutsche Bank or Dresdener Bank today have the Chancellor 's ear' : or that it is impossible to acquire German banks .
9 However , individual census household schedules are kept secret by the hundred-year rule , and it is impossible to use civil registers to reconstruct individual life histories and family formation .
10 It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand .
11 It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand in the short term .
12 Although the cases lay down the rule that a distinction between general skill and knowledge and business secrets must be maintained , it is impossible to formulate any general test .
13 It is impossible to spend much time teaching Johnny to read if you have a budget of £500,000 ( $980,000 ) to worry about .
14 In these circumstances it is impossible to detect any element of injustice to M. and accordingly we indicated at the conclusion of the argument that his appeal would be dismissed .
15 These experiments somewhat underestimate mutation rates because , even where new mutations are held heterozygous against balancer chromosomes , it is impossible to eliminate natural selection altogether if mutations are not completely recessive ; to take the extreme example , dominant lethals can never be accumulated .
16 Leadership is axiomatic to human resource management and it is impossible to draw neat boundaries between the various principles identified in this chapter .
17 However , despite political rhetoric , it is impossible to draw any ‘ robust ’ normative conclusions from such estimates ( see Cullis and Jones 1987 ) .
18 Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link .
19 It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation .
20 It is impossible to describe all the species that currently inhabit the planet given , for example , that species evolve and that there would be no obvious way of knowing when the table was complete .
21 It is impossible to describe any but the most popular of the salami that are found both in delicatessens and supermarkets .
22 Without some historic realignment on the left , it is impossible to see any serious moves in this direction being made in the next five years .
23 It is impossible to perform each stage of production simultaneously .
24 Thus to consider a professional-client relationship when relating professionalism to teaching is made even more difficult since it is impossible to view this relationship in personal terms .
25 According to Cumont , despite the theological differences between the Vedas and the Avesta , ‘ the Vedic Mitra and the Iranian Mithra have preserved so many traits of resemblance that it is impossible to entertain any doubt concerning their common origin' .
26 for instance , as Nikitin points out , it is impossible to categorize those garrison troops who undertook private trading against their superiors ' orders , or those private individuals who voluntarily joined armed detachments going out on campaign under orders from Moscow .
27 It is impossible to resolve these problems since there is no information which would allow us to pass judgements on them .
28 The term ‘ story ’ becomes an important indicator of what Federman might write , although it is impossible to take this at face value .
29 Thus it is impossible to test grand unified theories directly in the laboratory .
30 Equally , it is impossible to analyse social systems as consisting of norms and values and power relationships without examining the way in which they actually impinge on people .
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