Example sentences of "is impossible [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Leadership is axiomatic to human resource management and it is impossible to draw neat boundaries between the various principles identified in this chapter .
2 It is impossible to do full justice to the elegance and sensitivity of this volume which contained the final report .
3 Below that speed it is impossible to generate sufficient lift to overload the weak link .
4 It is impossible to give hard-and-fast rules , but here are some points to consider :
5 It is impossible to give exact figures for non-returners for a number of reasons .
6 The overall situation is unsatisfactory and it is impossible to give precise guidance as to how a firm can resolve mismatches between fiduciary and regulatory law , other than by always complying with the more onerous obligation where the inconsistency between fiduciary and regulatory law is not direct .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand .
10 It is impossible to use monetary policy as a precise means of controlling aggregate demand in the short term .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Because of the differences in structure and gradings in the above two assessments , it is impossible to make direct comparisons , but the 1989 review includes within its Category 16 ( Other Physical Sciences ) , such diverse subjects as astronomy , oceanography , and meteorology , some of which have teaching and research connections with the earth sciences .
14 The furniture-making craft is so wide and it covers so many disciplines that it is impossible to have in-depth knowledge of all these disciplines all the time .
15 It is impossible to play good golf simply by studying a series of action pictures .
16 Hearts manager Joe Jordan took that last remark a little further , stating : ‘ It is impossible to play good football in those conditions .
17 Phenomenologists believe that it is impossible to produce factual data and it is therefore impossible to produce and check causal explanations .
18 It is impossible to present right-brain concepts as reasonable or understandable to people who have suppressed the greater part of their right-brain abilities and function virtually entirely in the left-brain approach .
19 Eliot pointed out a hundred years later , it is impossible to write blank verse without falling into ‘ Miltonisms ’ of verse-movement and echoes of the earlier poet 's lines .
20 ( i ) It is impossible to paraphrase literary writing ;
21 It is impossible to recall contaminated eggs as they are distributed to packing stations around the country , where they are packed under British brand names .
22 It is impossible to get fresh oil two months after the event , ’ he said .
23 It claims it is impossible to get maximum returns for timber when trying to meet other objectives .
24 It is impossible to get sensible statistics from it .
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