Example sentences of "it was impossible [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy . |
| 2 | Iraq replied with a denunciation of the allied bombing of civilian targets , and the declaration that , as the allies were not providing information on the true level of their air losses , it was impossible to treat all captured airmen as prisoners-of-war . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By the time the matter came to this court , it was impossible to take any other view . |
| 5 | Although it was impossible to describe such a society in a detailed way , some of its main features could and should be indicated . |
| 6 | This view rested on an optimistic assumption that there was employment enough in the economy for all if labour was sufficiently mobile , but it was impossible to test this assumption in the 1830s and 40s . |
| 7 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
| 8 | In a contested election , however , it was impossible to do much with direct patronage , even if such were available , for there was never enough to do more than grease the palms of a handful of venal men , most of whom were to be found in the burgh councils . |
| 9 | As a consequence it was impossible to draw any practical conclusions from the results of this evaluation exercise . |
| 10 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 11 | It was so wreathed in smoke that it was impossible to distinguish any important features . ’ |
| 12 | It was impossible to find any landmarks for the moment . |
| 13 | It was impossible to find any pretext for remaining in her company . |
| 14 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 15 | The archive was thus virtually unusable since it was impossible to locate all the material on any given topic . |
| 16 | It was impossible to get any indication since my instructions from the Foreign Office were to negotiate only with Mr Smith and his people and not to have any contact with the black population during the period of my negotiations . |
| 17 | It was impossible to get any sort of recent financial statement from the company , and it was equally impossible to track down the principal debtors , who were ducking a host of other creditors as well . |
| 18 | It was impossible to avoid each other in such a hectic department , but fortunately the very business of it meant that any and every contact was necessarily fairly brisk . |
| 19 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , it was impossible to make such measurements on individual theses in the present study , because of the small numbers of citations involved . |
| 21 | My time at the DHSS showed that it was impossible to make any significant change without a fierce public and professional battle — even when improvement meant more resources for health care or put right long-standing problems . |
| 22 | Amiss detected a note of crossness in the press that it was impossible to pin this murder definitely on the IRA . |