Example sentences of "[that] it be impossible [verb] " in BNC.

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1 On the subject of using the past , making references , it 's just that it 's impossible to evade the past , it 's here , it 's being thrown at you , and you have to deal with it .
2 For the loyalists the purpose is to remain part of the U K and those two are so far apart , those two positions , that it 's impossible to see a bridge between them and that 's the difficulty .
3 I rather suspect that it 's inherent in the very human situation that it 's impossible to give a final and satisfactory account of the relation between the individuality of the individual 's experience and the world .
4 Erm , by hangers-on I mean that there are all the Dukes and the Viscounts and whatever else there is and that whole strata in society , which , I think is English society , erm I mean I know that there are Dukes in Scotland but there are n't so many , and I mean they own quite a lot and I think that it 's impossible to have a classless society because the monarchy perpetuate class divisions .
5 But not the manual steering , which again has such an effect on the driving character of the car that it is impossible to overlook .
6 Indeed , in the absence of a codified constitution , it is arguable that it is impossible to state what laws are of constitutional significance without reference to constitutions elsewhere to see what kinds of matters are dealt with therein .
7 This is strictly speaking an impossibility , in that it is impossible to do and have what we recognise as a knot without at some point letting go of the rope .
8 The fact that it is impossible to borrow words from one language to another with exactly the same form and meaning means all such systems are a compromise .
9 We suppose that it is impossible to sustain both high juvenile and adult survival , and choose the arbitrary constraint that J+A1 .
10 High levels of radiation mean that it is impossible to inspect or repair the suspect welds .
11 Deconstructionists believe that it is impossible to reach at the ‘ truth ’ of a text , because every interpretation of a work is itself open to interpretation — endlessly .
12 Does she accept that it is impossible to explain to them why patients who are haemophiliacs are eligible for compensation but they are not — even though my constituents have the same condition , life expectancy and financial pressures ?
13 It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion .
14 The Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) emphasised in stronger terms the problems associated with financial change and maintained that it is impossible to define money , because there is no clear criterion with which to determine those assets that are part of the money supply .
15 So many things happen in Amsterdam that it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events for 1992 .
16 Some of Bach 's melodies , however , are so freely formed that it is impossible to decide whether , like the above Sarabande , they could have had a simple outline as their origin , or whether Bach followed a free vein of inspiration , ignoring a well-defined construction .
17 He used to go around with a jug of orange juice to drum home to people that it is impossible to earn more unless more is produced .
18 On the evening of Jan. 12 it was announced that the existing six-member High Security Council had that day , by virtue of a mandate to preserve continuity given it by the Constitutional Council , resolved " that it is impossible to continue the election process until the necessary conditions are fulfilled for the normal functioning of institutions " .
19 He points out that it is impossible to stop it completely : ‘ There is no way to protect the electronic pulse .
20 However , such a position is untenable ; as Rose and Rose have argued , science today is so ‘ closely and directly enmeshed in the machinery of state and government ’ , that it is impossible to disentangle the practice of science from its context in modern industrial capitalism .
21 Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them .
22 No wonder that the heads of Deutsche Bank or Dresdener Bank today have the Chancellor 's ear' : or that it is impossible to acquire German banks .
23 It is so cleverly written that it is impossible to put into my words , everything inside the plot seems to the reader to be perfect .
24 The difficulty is that it is impossible to draw the line , by appealing to any abstract ideal of the market , between the degree of constraint and the degree of discretion which will be accorded to corporate managers through , for example , the device of the take-over bid .
25 According to Cumont , despite the theological differences between the Vedas and the Avesta , ‘ the Vedic Mitra and the Iranian Mithra have preserved so many traits of resemblance that it is impossible to entertain any doubt concerning their common origin' .
26 It is not too strong to say that it is impossible to test Marx 's thesis regarding the labour theory of value at a micro-economic level because Marx and Marxists have totally disregarded any element of profit which may result from risk-taking .
27 This , in effect , means that it is impossible to predict how much time will be needed to complete the work .
28 The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS .
29 The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS .
30 In addition , some of the countries whose boundaries have remained relatively stable produce such a wide variety of items , stemming from the diverse cultural , religious and ethnic backgrounds of their people , that it is impossible to categorize their rugs under one homogeneous style .
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