Example sentences of "[v-ing] it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | To sum up : a contract is void if , at the time the contract is made and unknown to the parties , goods have perished or do not exist , thereby rendering it impossible for the contract to be performed ; this , however , is subject to the qualification that the contract will not be void if the parties expressly or impliedly agreed otherwise . |
| 2 | The crop failure was an unexpected turn of events rendering it impossible to perform the contract which was therefore frustrated . |
| 3 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |
| 4 | Energetic international regulation of banking and tax laws , making it impossible for the mafiosi to launder their ill-gotten gains , would quickly destroy the Mafia and with it the myth of an irrepressible global conspiracy . |
| 5 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 6 | Pressure on land may be very strong , making it impossible to raise funds to even acquire the garden , let alone restore it . |
| 7 | Tightness throughout the abdomen making it impossible to cough or strain for fear that something will burst or will tear loose . |
| 8 | Often the skirt was frilled as well making it impossible for the audience to see where the skirt ended and the knickers began . |
| 9 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 10 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 11 | The Commission emphasised in its decision that the selective nature of the price cuts , and the circumstances in which they were made , amounted to ‘ loss leader ’ tactics making it impossible for the much smaller competitor in the market place to stay in business . |
| 12 | If anything it will make their lives easier by making it impossible for American companies and citizens to keep anything confidential . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land . |
| 14 | It swirled thickly , making it impossible to see where he was going . |
| 15 | The biting winds are laden with icy and freezing rain , making it impossible for the target to fight or move . |
| 16 | One new size has replaced two old ones , making it impossible for half the customers to get a correct fit . |
| 17 | Sergei Yushenkov , a leading democrat in the Russian parliament , guesses that , for less than $10m , you could bribe enough deputies to resign , making it impossible for parliament to form a quorum and thus forcing a general election : a small price to pay for removing a big obstacle to reform . |
| 18 | Hence the current emphasis on sustainable development ( meeting our needs without making it impossible for future generations to meet their needs ) , which is what the Earth Summit is meant to be giving some practical expression to . |
| 19 | On most sites , for instance , foundations alone survive , making it impossible to establish the complete height or appearance of buildings . |
| 20 | This approach therefore builds a ceiling over the heads of those on low incomes , making it impossible for them to break free . |
| 21 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 22 | Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets . |
| 23 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |
| 24 | These viruses change their composition every time they load , making it impossible for conventional scanning software to find a known , fixed , virus signature . |
| 25 | " The cabinet diplomacy at which ( Bismarck ) excelled in the 1860s was no longer possible in the 1880s ; public opinion was beginning to influence policy making it impossible to turn friendships on and off at will . " |
| 26 | Dumbly she shook her head , the threatened tears making it impossible for her to speak . |
| 27 | His face was set , making it impossible for her to guess what was going on in his mind . |
| 28 | Furthermore the structures of the lexical entries have tended to be proprietary to the system making it impossible to exchange lexicons between systems . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On food safety , my hon. Friend will be aware of the crippling effect of veterinary inspection charges on chicken-producing companies such as John Rannoch and Sovereign Chicken in my constituency , which are making it impossible for them to compete with their European counterparts . |