Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] impossible that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |
| 2 | Elsewhere , in the Danube province of Upper Moesia , stratores were to be found supervising road stations at both Nis ( Naissus ) and Cuprija ( Horreum Margi ) , and it is not impossible that they were doing the same in Britain . |
| 3 | It is not impossible that his severity on Galileo was one way of saving face — an attempt to placate prominent Jesuits still smarting from wounds that Galileo had inflicted on their colleagues in earlier debates about the nature of sunspots and comets . |
| 4 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 5 | It follows that the question " How many substances ? " is strictly meaningless , for given the way " substance " is defined , it is logically impossible that there should be more than one . |
| 6 | " This time it is quite impossible that you should be able to help me . " |
| 7 | One radical MP , William Cobbett , elected in 1833 , wondered : ‘ Why are we squeezed into so small a space that it is absolutely impossible that there should be calm and regular discussion … |