Example sentences of "it [be] impossible for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He accepts that it is impossible for mortal man to lay claim to attain , or to possess , perfect Truth . |
2 | Without claws it is impossible for any cat to scratch itself efficiently and the whole grooming pattern suffers as a result . |
3 | It is impossible for any glider pilot to make a high cloud climb and to be sure of his position . |
4 | For a welfare-maximizing equilibrium , the Tiebout mechanism must create a situation whereby it is impossible for any individual to increase utility as a result of changing communities . |
5 | It was impossible for middle class feminists to attack theories of sexual difference directly because of their purported scientific authenticity . |
6 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |
7 | Aristotle might affirm that it was impossible for another cosmos like our own to exist . |
8 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
9 | It was impossible for any society to absorb without hardship a shock like that of the massive loss of trade to Gdynia . |
10 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |