Example sentences of "[to-vb] it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just could n't get the Queen to talk about the situation , she seemed to find it impossible to get involved ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 3 | Some people seem to find it impossible to make that personal decision . |
| 4 | Because so few of the policy-makers have had direct experience of business , they seem to find it impossible to believe that when , for instance , interest rates fall , the positive effect on business confidence and hence on investment decisions may take up to three years to work through . |
| 5 | Then he began to find it impossible to withdraw his mind from a vision of this house empty , and of the rooms he would be returning to . |
| 6 | The effect of such an agreement between a creditor and a third party with regard to the debt is to render it impossible for the creditor afterwards to sue the debtor for it . |
| 7 | Even drivers of average height will need the seat so far back as to make it impossible to see directly behind . |
| 8 | From the point of view of many who have traced the development of religious thought over the last two hundred years , theism ceased to be unshakeable long before , in the twentieth century , Ayer and others from the school of ‘ logical positivism ’ sought to make it impossible . |
| 9 | Scientific , technical and clerical workers have signed a petition calling for the university to make it impossible for ‘ nuclear weapons-motivated research ’ involving SLAC to be carried out . |
| 10 | And this was their undoing because the surfaces of the branches had earlier been covered with lime to make it impossible for them to take flight again — ever again . |
| 11 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 12 | Firstly , it could be argued that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal prosecution , and the Crown Office would need more if this was to proceed ; and secondly , that there was enough evidence to make it impossible to drop the case , but more was needed to make it substantial . |
| 13 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 14 | ( b ) That by assigning rights and powers to the community in accordance with the Treaty provisions member states have limited their sovereign rights in such a way as to make it impossible to withdraw unilaterally . |
| 15 | The second defect is that the suggestion is too strong and is likely to make it impossible for any of us to know anything at all . |
| 16 | But although ‘ In Place of Strife ’ was in accord with majority public opinion , it was certainly not in accord with Labour Party and union opinion , and although that in itself has not always blocked the parliamentary leadership , this time it became obvious that sufficient Labour MPs would reject the proposals to make it impossible to establish them as law . |
| 17 | Because the motorbike was tucked cunningly under the very rampart of the fortress , much closer than the blue Corvette , Wilkie was able both to reverse the firm family progress of the Grimauds , and to make it impossible for Alexander not to catch up . |
| 18 | He did everything he could to make it impossible for the marriage to take place . |
| 19 | The clergy were going to make it impossible to find the young priest 's murderer . |
| 20 | The essence of Mrs Thatcher 's vision for the 1990s is negative to make it impossible to return to what she calls socialism or , more accurately , the interventionist welfare capitalism of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 21 | No , the real point is to make it impossible for Patros Bey . ’ |
| 22 | Churchill favoured having just sufficient troops to make it impossible for the USSR to attack without the need to make such large preparations that its intention to start the Third World War would be self-evident . |
| 23 | In theory , new commercial catch quotas could be set at next year 's meeting in Tokyo under a " revised management procedure " ( RMP ) , although any such decision might be so hedged around with qualifications as to make it impossible to fulfil . |
| 24 | 2.4 " Common Parts " means any malls and other pedestrian ways concourses and circulation areas staircases escalators ramps and lifts service roads loading bays forecourts and other ways and areas in the Centre which are from time to time during the Term provided by the Landlord for common use by customers frequenting the Centre and by the Tenants and the occupiers of the Centre or persons expressly or by implication authorised by them Although it is highly unlikely that the landlord would so amend or alter the common parts to make it impossible for the tenant to carry on its business , the following additional wording may be considered : |
| 25 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 26 | Safety experts say such cars should have their engines regulated to make it impossible for them to travel at speeds far above legal limits . |
| 27 | And of course we have seen that Wittgenstein wanted to show it impossible that there should be beings who behave like us but have no sensations or different sorts of experiences from ours . |