Example sentences of "that it [be] impossible for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 2 | Some diets may emerge so hard that it is impossible for them to be eaten by weanling mice . |
| 3 | The immediate application of this engine was in pumping water out of mine workings , which had often become so badly flooded that it was impossible for them to be worked , and pumps driven by waterwheels were unequal to the huge drainage problems . |
| 4 | Women 's Cooperative Guild members also contrasted them unfavourably with their own more democratic Guild meetings , deploring the way in which ‘ ladies came and lectured on the domestic affairs in the workers ’ homes that it was impossible for them to understand' . |
| 5 | Once inside the shop , however , acrimony faded ; they were so alike that it was impossible for them to work together and be at odds . |