Example sentences of "it [was/were] impossible [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible for middle class feminists to attack theories of sexual difference directly because of their purported scientific authenticity . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | Aristotle might affirm that it was impossible for another cosmos like our own to exist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was impossible for any society to absorb without hardship a shock like that of the massive loss of trade to Gdynia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was impossible by this method to take into account the question of whether one situation was more dangerous than another . |