Example sentences of "impossible [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the King in chess the Young King had possessed very little power of his own , yet without him it was impossible to carry on the game . |
| 2 | Mr. Clark called the attention of the Board to the schools , and to the female side of the house as he was ‘ certain if the business is conducted as it has been , it is impossible to carry out the system … ’ . |
| 3 | He was beset by difficulties ; it was impossible to carry out the perambulations during the harvest season . |
| 4 | It applies when , through no fault of either party , events take an unexpected turn making it impossible to carry out the contract as originally conceived . |
| 5 | It proved quite impossible to carry out the task assigned without involvement in the still fluid political situation . |
| 6 | In which case , it is impossible to see how the plesiosaurs could obtain sufficient quantities of food to survive . |
| 7 | As Barbara and Gareth Lloyd-Evans say , it 's impossible to know how the money disappeared . |
| 8 | Second , since any forger who makes additions to a genuine document will destroy the original to avoid detection , it must generally be impossible to know precisely the extent of forged elements in otherwise genuine documents . |
| 9 | The picture that emerged was highly confusing , because she could not follow all its references , despite Clelia 's efforts to explain herself ; she found it impossible to sort out the complications of Clelia 's family , which seemed to contain , as well as a poet father , an equally if not more famous mother , and a large number of strangely named children . |
| 10 | It had been impossible to stop my body from charging but now it was impossible to fight off the fatigue . |
| 11 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 12 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 13 | Because of the scale of the disaster , it was agreed that it was impossible to recreate so the decision was taken to concentrate on the rescue of a particular individual , Martin Baptie . |
| 14 | He nevertheless shared with other critics a concern about the untrained , unregulated , and unsupervised adolescent work-force , and found it impossible to separate completely the behaviour of these young workers from the larger problem of unemployment . |
| 15 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |
| 16 | For otherwise , it is impossible to understand how the tendency to certain acquired movements is inherited . |
| 17 | As Laurence Martin has said : ‘ It is impossible to refute entirely the criticism that the various strategies of limitation may appear to make the world safe for nuclear warfare and thereby hasten its onset ’ ; but he concluded : ‘ The proper question may therefore be not , should we contemplate limited nuclear war , but , should we consider the ways of limiting the nuclear war which is henceforth always a possibility ’ ( Howard , 1979 , pp. 119 and 120 ) . |
| 18 | It was impossible to hold back the enthusiasm of the church in its infancy . |
| 19 | She could n't remember the names of the drinks they were ordering , and she found it nearly impossible to add up the prices of drinks for an entire table in her head . |
| 20 | While it is impossible to measure precisely the influence of these factors , they all probably contributed to the falling output-capital ratio and the consequent decline in the profit rate . |
| 21 | By its very nature it is impossible to quantify exactly the extent of the black economy . |
| 22 | The view expressed here is that it is impossible to quantify either the costs or benefits of insider dealing in any meaningful sense . |
| 23 | With so many others in the dole queue , all desperate to find work , having any kind of handicap makes it almost impossible to move up the line . |
| 24 | Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy . |
| 25 | The one exception is that the opening of the inter-German frontier has complicated the campaign for the frontier-free movement of people within the EC , because it has become impossible to say where the EC 's secure external frontier is . |
| 26 | Again it is impossible to say where the change-over from one species to the next occurs , and how many species there are . |
| 27 | It is impossible to explain satisfactorily the passion that Shah Jehan had in this direction . |
| 28 | In many districts it is impossible to distinguish exactly the contribution of winter-lets to homelessness , but they must add a considerable degree of uncertainty to housing demand in any given rural location , particularly in attractive holiday areas . |
| 29 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 30 | The guilt of that rashly administered vodka , combined with a sense of shame at decades of serving up meals of such a consistency that it is impossible to tell where the food ends and the plate begins , is obviously weighing heavily on his shoulders . |