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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 However , despite political rhetoric , it is impossible to draw any ‘ robust ’ normative conclusions from such estimates ( see Cullis and Jones 1987 ) .
7 It is impossible to describe any but the most popular of the salami that are found both in delicatessens and supermarkets .
8 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 .
9 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' .
10 Simon was to the point : ‘ It is impossible to credit any single hairdresser , so I would like to put forward three greats — Trevor Sorbie and Anthony Mascolo ’ .
11 It is a kind of given , something of which we do have direct acquaintance , but it is impossible to give any analysis of it .
12 1.60 It is impossible to give any clear indication of what level or percentage of the damages the interim payment will be .
13 By implication it is impossible to postulate any definite inverse correlation between changes in the real wage rate and changes in employment .
14 It is impossible to read any one of such referenced files from LIFESPAN without all the others .
15 It is impossible to select any important part of it without soon realising that its root is firmly grounded in atheism .
16 It is impossible to obtain any foreign newspaper or magazine whatsoever in Belgrade .
17 On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period .
18 It is a consequence of the definition that it is impossible to increase any objective function at an efficient solution without decreasing another .
19 It is impossible to perceive any global coincidence at all between ecological or economic factors and family types .
20 As I see it , the considerations set out above and taken as a whole lead irresistibly to the conclusion that , when considering the expression ‘ any person ’ in the sections , it is impossible to identify any particular limitation which can be said , with any degree of confidence , to represent the presumed intention of Parliament .
21 The Reverend Peter Green warned in How to Deal with Lads ( 1911 ) of how ‘ the club is rushed by a swarm of rough lads whom you do n't know and over whom it is impossible to exercise any control ’ .
22 And Hume 's point is that it is impossible to have any reason for that last belief .
23 Without reading some history it is impossible to have any true conception of the life at court .
24 In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation .
25 Given this dislocation between the benefit which is assessable to tax and the basis on which its value is to be assessed it is impossible to gain any guidance in the statute as to the Parliamentary intention .
26 It is impossible to make any such comparison without knowing what the institutional arrangements of the system would be .
27 Despite the extensive sampling during the excavation of the sixth and seventh century settlement at Cowdery 's Down the results prompted the excavator to offer a warning about interpreting the results ; it was concluded that ‘ it is impossible to make any assertions about the economy or waste disposal systems associated with the site ’ ( Green 1983 , p. 261 ) .
28 It is impossible to make any convincing stylistic connection between either of these and the Olympia sculptures .
29 What we do know is that it is impossible to write any human being off as permanently damaged .
30 There was no cinema , no dance-hall , not even a café , and as we had no centre in which to foregather ( save The Galleon ) , and were all working on different shifts , it was impossible to take any initiative in organising group entertainment .
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