Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | The packaging of the goods then , as now , made them almost impossible for customers with stiff fingers to open . |
| 2 | The position of the piece of gravel would have made it virtually impossible for the fish to dislodge it . |
| 3 | Rising costs , a more sophisticated travelling public and much greater competition from numerous holiday attractions , which have developed within the last 10 years , have made it virtually impossible to run two commercial railways in such close proximity . |
| 4 | In addition , the heavy tax rates of the late-Seventies would have made it virtually impossible , had one or other of the pair died , for the company in its entirety to be passed on to the children , Laura 's most cherished ideal . |
| 5 | Even after he had made them known , he had made it virtually impossible for voters to express their agreement with his views ( by refusing to patronize the Union Gaulliste or some equivalent ) . |
| 6 | But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times . |
| 7 | ‘ If we can keep them off council land it will make it nearly impossible for them . |
| 8 | He was swearing steadily and obscenely as he did so , realising that the windscreen damage inflicted by the near miss would make it well-nigh impossible for him to engage in a high speed chase now . |
| 9 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 10 | To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times . |
| 11 | With inflation the cost of stocking a small farm , quite apart from the value of the land itself , is so high that the tax imposition will make it virtually impossible for a farmer to pass on a flourishing farm to his son . |
| 12 | ‘ In Scotland , a 5pc swing against the Conservatives would reduce our numbers from 11 to two and that would make it virtually impossible for a Conservative Government to govern in Scotland . ’ |
| 13 | But there is deepening pessimism that a full one point advance will be announced which will make it almost impossible for base rates to remain unchanged . |
| 14 | Two home defeats have dented Boro 's hopes of automatic promotion , and Lawrence said : ‘ Failure to get three points against Oxford would make it almost impossible to make the top two . |
| 15 | Early last year , in an interview with a low-circulation Blues fanzine , Bowyer stated that the current political climate in Northern Ireland would make it almost impossible for Catholics to cross the sectarian divide and play for Linfield . |
| 16 | ‘ In addition to interfering with existing contracts , ’ said Lord Reid ‘ the defendant 's action made it practically impossible for the appellants to do any new business with the barge hirers . |
| 17 | In particular it widened the gap between Labour and National Labour , and made it quite impossible for any reunion to take place . |
| 18 | These awful conditions naturally made it quite impossible to tell what was happening actually on Krakatoa , but it is thought that some milder explosive activity continued . |
| 19 | It was certainly significant to the next stage of Nicholson 's career , and indeed what was happening in Hollywood itself at a time of changing tastes which made it almost impossible to predict what next year 's cinema audience would go into raptures about . |
| 20 | Prussian law made it almost impossible for the Kaszubians who wanted to expand their holdings to do so by buying land from Germans . |
| 21 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 22 | To think that way made it almost impossible to understand a pattern of battle results other than that which pointed consistently in one direction . |
| 23 | Ace was outraged , but the worsening vibration made it almost impossible to speak coherently . |
| 24 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 25 | The Alliance , an opposition grouping of five minor parties which had achieved 14 per cent of the vote in the 1990 election but secured only one of the 97 seats , campaigned strongly for change on the grounds that the current system made it almost impossible for minor parties to gain significant parliamentary representation . |
| 26 | Guy Sterne 's dark face possessed some indefinably tough , worldly-wise quality which made it almost impossible to read . |
| 27 | They then discovered the shaft 's brittle shale walls made it almost impossible to get out again . |
| 28 | Cars parked on both sides of the road made it almost impossible for buses to pass each other on a popular bus route . |
| 29 | The empty pot was heavy and Asik found it very difficult to walk without carrying anything , but the pot made it almost impossible for him to move at any speed . |
| 30 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |