Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] impossible [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 2 | It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity . |
| 3 | When using this definition the results of conventional designs seem so good that it is effectively impossible to show that a new design is significantly better than conventional ones . |
| 4 | If it is thus hardly surprising that he gave I and II Cnut his backing at a Christmas court at Winchester , it is also impossible to prove that his regime otherwise paid them much heed . |
| 5 | It is quite impossible to say that Woolwich paid to close a transaction since it protested that it was not liable and it immediately sought to establish that the regulations were void . |
| 6 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is almost impossible to believe that they did not have contemporary events in mind , and as Æthelred was certainly not victorious , the implication is that he was unwise . |
| 9 | The judge said it was quite impossible to say that any error was shown by these matters on the face of the determination , and that the parties were , on a matter of opinion , bound by the opinion of their chosen expert . |
| 10 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 11 | It was almost impossible to think that a couple of hours ago she 'd have climbed on the rostrum in the Forum and denounced Prince Nicolo Sabatini to all of Rome . |
| 12 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |