Example sentences of "[vb -s] it impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survivor finds it impossible to start expressing any feelings at all because they are so confusing , challenging and unsafe . |
| 2 | If you 're the sort that finds it impossible to relax , the Samos is the perfect holiday base . |
| 3 | There may be frequency of micturition and , in a proportion of cases , these symptoms may progress to acute retention of urine , when the hapless female finds it impossible to pass urine at all . |
| 4 | We have still , in the first months of a new church 's life , known some intractable difficulties where one member finds it impossible not to feel betrayed , usually by the leaders . |
| 5 | A growing band of countries finds it impossible to borrow a penny from anyone without having received the IMF 's seal of good housekeeping . |
| 6 | The problem is that like most other private Russian companies , Anis finds it impossible to raise capital . |
| 7 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 8 | Strange , ’ Benjamin mused , ‘ this drunk who can so cleverly bolt the door after him , now finds it impossible to repeat the action to escape from an angry war horse . ’ |
| 9 | Now that her daughter is two , Janet would like to go back to work but finds it impossible to arrange childcare that would make it worthwhile . |
| 10 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 11 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 12 | Early dusk makes it impossible to enjoy the garden during the week , except in the middle of summer . |
| 13 | The setting of particularly high standards for uniformity and internal consistency makes it impossible to speak of the existence of almost any ‘ ism ’ in policy . |
| 14 | The ubiquity of the Jewish theme in his public addresses at this time makes it impossible to imagine that early converts to Nazism could fail to regard violent anti-Semitism as a leading feature of Hitler 's image . |
| 15 | This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution , as one can in astronomy . |
| 16 | Hounslow 's headquarters have been at the Church Meadow ground for 70 years but sharing with a cricket club makes it impossible to lay a synthetic surface there . |
| 17 | The complexity of modern European economies makes it impossible to believe that rural community self-sufficiency can be achieved in isolation from urban and industrial economy . |
| 18 | This is mainly the fault of the shop assistants , all of whom climb mountains and will stand discussing Munros with you for 45 minutes , which makes it impossible to leave without buying something . |
| 19 | The process of becoming successful makes it impossible for fans and the band to visualise and treat each other in the same way . |
| 20 | By analogy , therefore , where the refusal of planning permission makes it impossible for a defendant to comply with the terms of a nuisance order , this could be regarded as a reasonable excuse . |
| 21 | There is no simple formula by which this may be achieved , and its very nature makes it impossible to draw up a catalogue of final behaviours to be acquired . |
| 22 | Apart from this , the very large number of higher education libraries now active in user education in the UK makes it impossible in a brief survey to take a library-by-library approach . |
| 23 | It makes it impossible for them to pursue their careers and the average hospital bill that faces them often exceeds $ 100 000 . |
| 24 | This myth is believed all over the world despite the fact that the weight of the armour makes it impossible for the clam to close rapidly . |
| 25 | It makes it impossible for anyone to creep around your house without making a noise . |
| 26 | This cyclical fluctuation in volume is due to-the operation of the camcorder 's automatic gain control which is all the time trying to maintain a constant sound level irrespective of the natural level of the incoming signal , an effect which makes it impossible to reproduce true audio perspectives . |
| 27 | It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away . |
| 28 | Dr C. N. Manlove writes ‘ the Voice ’ off as ‘ providential ’ , and clearly thinks it one more example of the ‘ biased fortune ’ which in his opinion makes it impossible to take the story seriously . |
| 29 | Taking note of every small detail that occurs makes it impossible to take part in active discussion . |
| 30 | A second , more serious , problem is that , very often , the nature of the child 's language problem makes it impossible to speak to the child ‘ natur-ally ’ ; the adult is forced to employ ‘ unnatural ’ language and to adopt ad hoc conversational strategies . |