Example sentences of "[vb past] it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 . |
| 2 | A supporter said yesterday : ‘ What they want is to have somebody they can control , ’ but Mr Field found it impossible to operate on that basis . |
| 3 | Apart from the difficulties presented by unemployment and the trade depression , already referred to , some of the leading trade unions found it impossible to submerge their differences in a joint defence against the onslaught of both employers and government . |
| 4 | Having opened the door to invite public inspection , the Palace found it impossible to close again . |
| 5 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 6 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 7 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 8 | Sadly , Ransome found it impossible to carry through . |
| 9 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 10 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
| 11 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 12 | I found it impossible to answer brusquely as I had intended . |
| 13 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 14 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When she went to bed she found it impossible to sleep , and started thinking about her ex-boyfriend and about the paperwork that awaited her the next day . |
| 17 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 18 | Marriage was forbidden in their contracts too , but so many of the so-called babes broke the rule during the season that Amy found it impossible to replace them ; not having a large pool of dancers back in Britain she decided to bring the unmarried ones back after the first year 's contract was completed . |
| 19 | She found it impossible to sit still . |
| 20 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 21 | But he found it impossible . |
| 22 | She found it impossible to admit , even to herself , the relief which flooded her whole being at the idea that she was no longer bound to live out her life in Tollemarche . |
| 23 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 24 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough found it impossible to come to terms with the Israeli as he snatched two first-half goals . |
| 26 | Some South American students , for whom English was a second or third language , found it impossible to read and understand Lawrence 's play The Daughter-in-Law , a play where the use of Eastwood dialect renders it only easily accessible to those at home with varieties of regional English . |
| 27 | She not only got pregnant but also found it impossible to further her career in the Tory party . |
| 28 | Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention . |
| 29 | Again he found it impossible to identify the passenger . |
| 30 | We knew that VAT was going to be an issue , but because everything was so vague we found it impossible to draw up detailed plans in advance , which meant that at the last minute we had to commit unbudgeted and unplanned resources to enable us to be ready for January . ’ |