Example sentences of "but it [be] [adv] impossible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 2 | It has to be crossed because it offers the second-greatest prize in nomination delegates , but it is almost impossible to clear the field without some casualties . |
| 3 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |
| 4 | But it is almost impossible to produce such images without someone raising the cry , ‘ pornography ’ . |
| 5 | Many English fans even regard West Indian cricket as boring , but it is more impossible to know , as defeat follows defeat follows defeat , to what extent this is an objective judgement or to what extent it is just sour grapes . |
| 6 | I find TV particularly demanding , but it 's almost impossible to avoid it . |
| 7 | But it 's almost impossible to separate it from thinking of Alexander Pope the man . |
| 8 | They saw the camp-fires lighting up the winter dusk well before they reached the Hoddom area , near where the Water of Milk joined Annan , which meant , of course , that the enemy ahead presumably would be apt to see them also ; but it was practically impossible to hide the presence of a major army anyway . |
| 9 | But it was obviously impossible to deal with a nation-wide emergency such as lorry-drivers ' strikes , and equally impossible to respond properly to a rash of major disputes all at the same time . |
| 10 | She tried to look past him , but it was almost impossible to see what or who was in the room beyond . |
| 11 | Something was wrong , but it was almost impossible to remember what it was . |