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Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [adv] impossible for " in BNC.

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1	But Britain 's Vice-Consul Harold Jenkins told me : ‘ Sadly it may be quite impossible for them to make positive identifications . ’
2	It must be virtually impossible for a dolphin to hide its inner emotional state .
3	The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 .
4	The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century .
5	Julie T Wallace has never been a shrinking violet — which is probably just as well , as it would be almost impossible for her to fade quietly into the background .
6	They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives .
7	Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’
8	It will be almost impossible for photographers to sneak pictures of her there although the guide says : ‘ It is advisable for guests to draw their curtains if they want privacy because footpaths lead past many of the rooms . ’
9	Admittedly , gifts during life will be taxed less heavily than bequests , provided that the donor survives the gift by four years , but even so it will be almost impossible for a thriving business or a farm of economic size to be handed down to the next generation .
10	When the inspectorate is reduced to 175 , it will be virtually impossible for it to produce a report with anything like the quality of those produced in the past .