Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [pers pn] [adv] impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | The isolation made it virtually impossible to gain any conclusive information on the scale of the weekend violence , but a growing volume of eyewitness accounts spoke of hundreds being killed in a bloodbath at the hands of the army and secret police . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Prussian law made it almost impossible for the Kaszubians who wanted to expand their holdings to do so by buying land from Germans . |
| 5 | A dwindling of public support both North and South making it virtually impossible for men to operate on Guerrilla lines — one of the basic ingredients for a successful guerrilla campaign is the support of wide sections of the people . |
| 6 | Ace was outraged , but the worsening vibration made it almost impossible to speak coherently . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wartime expansion of milk consumption took place for a third reason that related more to specific practical problems than to a new attitude on the part of policy-makers : simply , the disruptions of wartime made it virtually impossible to implement the pre-war means test criteria , such as the definition of a ‘ necessitous ’ child eligible for free milk , or the distinguishing of those children receiving cheap milk for the under-fives under section 2 of the 1939 Milk Industry Act . |
| 9 | With so many others in the dole queue , all desperate to find work , having any kind of handicap makes it almost impossible to move up the line . |
| 10 | Cars parked on both sides of the road made it almost impossible for buses to pass each other on a popular bus route . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To think that way made it almost impossible to understand a pattern of battle results other than that which pointed consistently in one direction . |
| 15 | Their feedback-drenched fog makes it almost impossible to discern anything resembling a tune , and each song coasts along for upwards of five minutes — but it 's precisely their avoidance of career-minded polish that makes them so invigorating . |
| 16 | ‘ Require a modification to the DC-10 cargo door locking system to make it physically impossible to position the external locking handle and vent door to their normal door locked positions unless the locking pins are fully engaged . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there are a lot of women who do n't command high salaries but who still want to work , yet to pay for childcare out of taxed income makes it economically impossible . |