Example sentences of "was impossible [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with Silas listening to both sides of the conversation it was impossible to explain the situation thoroughly , therefore she said , ‘ Daddy — it 's Lucy — I 'm at a place called Wilder 's Wilderness — you reach it by turning off the Taupo road . ’ |
| 2 | Given that it was impossible to predict the response to the three post-dissolution treatment regimens , some degree of imbalance between the groups was almost inevitable . |
| 3 | Miss Fergusson courteously responded to the suggested transaction by pointing out that if indeed it was impossible to ascend the mountain , then the likelihood of their believing that the amulet could be a piece of bitumen from the Patriarch 's vessel was not very great . |
| 4 | The previous Bill had passed through Committee and was well advanced ‘ when international affairs so occupied the time of this House that it was impossible to carry the Measure to the Statute Book ’ . |
| 5 | It was impossible to breathe a word when your heart was so ready for love . |
| 6 | It was impossible to disregard the fact that King Husayn 's renunciation of the West Bank in July 1988 , too , undermined the inter-statal approach of Resolution 242 , and emphasized the inter-communal aspect of the conflict inside Palestine . |
| 7 | Practically all of them felt it was impossible to back the repeal movement publicly for fear that involvement would jeopardize their own campaigns . |
| 8 | The woman had stated : ‘ It was impossible to mount a rescue owing to stormy conditions . ’ |
| 9 | As it was impossible to inspect the inside of the joint after manufacture this was a potential cause of accidents . |
| 10 | When they were round the corner , it was impossible to see the heap of trees and rocks . |
| 11 | It was the tallest room he had ever seen and was so dark near the top it was impossible to see the ceiling — if there was one . |
| 12 | As it was impossible to see the ground I kept my legs braced , but when I hit the desert I suffered a tremendous jolt right through my body . |
| 13 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 14 | In reality it was impossible to control the exchange of information and ideas between the newly arriving westerners and young Chinese intellectuals . |
| 15 | Few in the Treasury believed that it really was impossible to control the prison population if Ministers were sufficiently determined . |
| 16 | The rent still had to be paid and it was impossible to sell the lease with so much property available . |
| 17 | Strictly speaking , it was impossible to effect a fusion of Christianity with Aristotle — as Aquinas was well aware . |
| 18 | They were kept in a large room , hundreds and hundreds of them , and it was impossible to open the door without them all falling out . |
| 19 | After 1954 , and however virtuously reassuring it had been to teach bright Battersea boys , it was impossible to ignore the influence of social class on educational achievement . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was impossible to ignore the fact that the overall percentage of registered electors voting in favour , at 64.51 per cent in Latvia and 64.49 per cent in Estonia , fell short of the two-thirds majority which would have meant victory if the referendums had been held according to the April 1990 USSR legislation on the secession of a republic [ see pp. 37361-62 ] . |
| 21 | Even if the incentive for the English and French had been strategic , not aesthetic , it was impossible to ignore the beauty all around them . |
| 22 | However , he decided it was impossible to deny the charge . |
| 23 | The Health & Safety Executive , however , maintained that the HSC 's comprehensive guidelines were adequate and that the laying down of rigid prescriptive standards was impossible given the diversity of sizes and types of pool . |
| 24 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 25 | May 9 , 1972 The House of Lords decision in Launchbury v. Morgans led Mr Ali 's advisers to believe that it was impossible to continue the action . |
| 26 | For example , I could n't past data from an existing spreadsheet into a document and maintain the link ; the toolbar across the top of the word processor has no buttons for bold or italic text ; and it was impossible to run a banner headline across the top of a page divided into columns . |
| 27 | It was impossible to escape an impression of lives deeply disturbed and unhappy . |
| 28 | She had a lot of hair , but it was so tangled and matted it was impossible to determine the colour . |
| 29 | It was impossible to know the truth about Timothy Gedge , why he was as he was ; no one could know with certainty . |
| 30 | Admirers of Edison 's tinfoil phonograph are on record as saying that it was impossible to tell the difference between the recording and the original . |