Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] impossible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the department or faculty you are interested in is not listed , or it is impossible for you to come on the given dates , then we will do our best to arrange an individual visit for you provided you give us plenty of advance notice . |
| 2 | But was she trying to confuse the plot by saying : ‘ I know that it is impossible for me to win four Grand Slam tournaments this year . ’ |
| 3 | Senior party figures argue that it is impossible for the rules to be changed to restore the nomination to the sitting MP . |
| 4 | So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another . |
| 5 | As its name implies , demand-deficient ( DD ) unemployment occurs when there is a general deficiency of the demand for labour in the economy such that it is impossible for all those who are seeking work to be employed . |
| 6 | He accepts that it is impossible for mortal man to lay claim to attain , or to possess , perfect Truth . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Because we know that there is a substantial input of deleterious mutations to populations , and that it is impossible for individuals to combine indefinitely high survival and fertility , both the optimality and the mutation-accumulation explanations of senescence must apply . |
| 9 | As a general rule , this cynical objection is far too crude , not least because it often rests on a false assumption — that it is impossible for theological statements to be both placatory and genuine . |
| 10 | Some diets may emerge so hard that it is impossible for them to be eaten by weanling mice . |
| 11 | And he takes this to show that it is impossible for good empiricists to avoid going along with him . |
| 12 | Some sociologists , particularly phenomenologists , take the argument further and claim that it is impossible for sociologists to find the causes of human action . |
| 13 | It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out . |
| 14 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 15 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 16 | One simple explanation for the absence of a long term reputation building in our model is that the dominant strategy type is of measure zero in the priors , so it is impossible for other types to credibly acquire a reputation . |
| 17 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 18 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 19 | His basic proposition was ‘ That which is is , and it is impossible for it not to be . ’ |
| 20 | This means that the worst score a Forest Goblin can get on the ‘ Eadbangerz Chart is 2 ( ‘ I fink I 'm gon na … ’ ) and it is impossible for him to ‘ Eadbang . |
| 21 | According to his account to the House of Commons , Baldwin replied : ‘ Sir , that is most grievous news , and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today . ’ |
| 22 | The Legislature can not , according to our constitution , bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation , and it is impossible for Parliament to enact that in a subsequent statute dealing with the same subject-matter there can be no implied repeal . |
| 23 | But , if they ca n't break the star system , if it is impossible for a band of this stature to remain an ‘ ordinary existence ’ ( although it must be stated that New Order deliberately unglamourise their existence , wisely slowing down their schedules and viciously guarding their faceless media presence . |
| 24 | If it is impossible for you to release them there make sure they are given their freedom in an area with abundant supplies of nectar . |
| 25 | But it is impossible for anyone to feel depressed for long at Liphook . |
| 26 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 27 | But it is impossible for him in his findings not to interpret events . |
| 28 | They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly . |
| 29 | And while it 's impossible for an everyday motor cyclist to imagine what 's involved in taming a 500 , the New Age stars talk of their craft so matter-of-factly . |
| 30 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |