Example sentences of "it [is] almost impossible [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is almost impossible to stop this initial run without tearing the hook out of the fish 's mouth , and yet you must not let the barbel have all his own way . |
| 2 | It is almost impossible to forge any sort of career associated with public life or public men where you do not yourself become the object of hostility in some quarter . |
| 3 | Attempts to provide land use data for other countries are bedevilled by even worse problems of definition and classification than those already outlined , but Best ( 1979 ) has tried to harmonize European national statistics to produce the figures shown in Table 8.2 , and in the USA although Jackson ( 1980 , 6 ) has argued that : ‘ it is almost impossible to provide adequate statistics on land use … because of differing definitions ’ , he has nonetheless provided the estimates shown in Table 8.2 using Department of Agriculture statistics . |
| 4 | The production of hymn books , supplements and small collections is so prolific that it is almost impossible to keep abreast of all that is in circulation , whether in traditional or in more popular vein . |
| 5 | It is almost impossible to keep such a tight regime going for any length of time . |
| 6 | But it is almost impossible to produce such images without someone raising the cry , ‘ pornography ’ . |
| 7 | Casework usually involves added complexity and the opinion is gaining credence in some circles that it is almost impossible to gain sufficient experience to become proficient unless one spends two whole days a week in a bureau . |
| 8 | Most significantly , it states that one reason not to have a comprehensive nuclear-test ban is that it is almost impossible to distinguish small underground tests from earthquakes and conventional explosions . |
| 9 | It is almost impossible to get brilliant and dark grains properly exposed on the same frame . |