Example sentences of "made it impossible [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 President Alija Izetbegovic told reporters his meeting with mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen was very short because of the ‘ bad news ’ from Bosnia which made it impossible to continue talks .
2 His own opening gambit made it impossible to take offence .
3 ( If so , I thought that was just the problem that made it impossible to use Rocky … )
4 The crytic stage in the choroid plexus may also give the ‘ tryps ’ time to alter their surface antigens , and so escape destruction by the immune system ; the trick that has , to date , made it impossible to construct vaccines effective against them .
5 They were still held within the vice of their own fields , with all the complicated property rights which made it impossible to secure land for building development .
6 Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped .
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