Example sentences of "[vb infin] it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the crop of Blackacre will render it impossible to perform the contract in the first example , whereas in the latter case the contract can be fulfilled by supplying potatoes from any source . |
| 2 | To impose the condition that disabled parking spaces must be taken up before 10.30am will render it impossible for many , many of them to take advantage of this ‘ concession . ’ |
| 3 | The Attorney-General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , told Mr MacDonald in Monday 's debate on contradictory legal advice that a new amendment of the form now tabled ‘ would render it impossible for the Government to ratify the treaty ’ . |
| 4 | But we might suppose it impossible to provide an effective global argument of this type . |
| 5 | They will usually think it impossible and you then show them the way to do it . |
| 6 | Coran Brothers FC have their ground on the outskirts of Watley and as the train goes through the middle of the town you may think it impossible to see any of Linekar Avenue but this is not so . |
| 7 | This does not make it impossible for a domestic market to be dominated and then abused , but it is far less likely to happen . |
| 8 | A recent bereavement may make it impossible for a participant in a drama class to join in a drama about the Plague of London or the death of Cordelia . |
| 9 | This could make it impossible to test QCD to better than 10 per cent , bringing the business of science to a halt . |
| 10 | His perceptual difficulties may make it impossible for him to recognize you and his immediate family or your relationship with him . |
| 11 | They can make it impossible to read a newspaper , walk down the road , go shopping , listen to the radio or join in conversation . |
| 12 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 13 | Face-to-face conversation in quiet circumstances may be easy , but group chatter or background noise may make it impossible to understand the speaker . |
| 14 | The loan requirements shall not be so stringent that it will make it impossible for a businessman to acquire these loans . |
| 15 | There is also the possibility of your neighbour erecting a wall within his own land , which would then make it impossible for you to carry out any maintenance works , even if you were able to gain access to your neighbour 's land . |
| 16 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 17 | He worked slowly but efficiently for nearly two hours , fearing that , if he did not finish the work quickly , frost would make it impossible for him to continue ; then , tired and sweating , he went and sat on the front doorstep to rest . |
| 18 | He is dependent on the permission of others for every step he takes , and if they so wish they can make it impossible for him to carry on any concrete activity . |
| 19 | Also patching the good eye of a child whose lazy eye has an acuity of 6/24 or less may make it impossible to manage normal school work . |
| 20 | Such diversity may make it impossible to establish common psychological ground within a category like ‘ working-class older lesbians ’ . |
| 21 | Substantial investments in distribution systems or overseas plants may be the only means of overcoming barriers which otherwise would make it impossible to reap the full returns from a given technical process . |
| 22 | The Bosnian Serbs refused to sign the Vance-Owen plan because , if it were ever implemented , it would make it impossible for this generation of Serbs to link Serbia proper with the Serb-held parts of Bosnia and Croatia to make them a single state . |
| 23 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 24 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 25 | Amendment No. 3 would make it impossible for a Scottish Bus Group subsidiary to be resold within five years without the consent of its employees . |
| 26 | Although the story of Croton 's lost Helen admitted that no single girl of the southern peninsula in those days was entirely beautiful enough , it was still recalled by the attending spectators at the Sunday promenade , by the old men and women no longer in the marriage stakes , by the servants whom custom forbade from parading — as if the cost of new or spruced-up clothes did not make it impossible for them to take part anyway . |
| 27 | The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle . |
| 28 | The plural text will undo the classical image of a tangible author sending a tangible message to a tangible reader ; and the more plural a text is , the more it will make it impossible for the reader to find any origin for it , whether it be in the form of an authorial voice , a representational content or a philosophical truth . |
| 29 | These measures may make getting information off the P N C more difficult , but they do not make it impossible . |
| 30 | She must make it impossible for Theda to refuse . |