Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] impossible without " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been impossible without you ! |
| 2 | Driving the cattle that was to feed the troops through the Alps was a Herculean task and it would have been impossible without the dogs . |
| 3 | But perhaps Nicholson 's most spectacular achievement was the important part he played in surpassing the performance of the rival Perkin & Sons — a feat that would have been impossible without the cooperation of his friend , and mentor , Hofmann . |
| 4 | This would have been impossible without the link provided from postcoded data ( increasingly available from sources such as cancer registries ) to Ordnance Survey ( OS ) grid references . |
| 5 | Now came the part of the operation that would have been impossible without the trained elephants . |
| 6 | The huge growth of its towns and cities would have been impossible without the medical advances of these years and the action by governments , singly and in concert , which supplied new health and welfare services , and imposed new standards of health , sanitation and accommodation . |
| 7 | The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected , rather than negated , the king 's authority . |
| 8 | The report was useful in pointing out the confused state of the Company 's knowledge of its charities , and certainly the generosity would have been impossible without rigorous financial control ( from 1810 to 1816 , for example , expenditure had exceeded income by £10,000 , largely because of the work on the Company 's almshouses at Acton ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , as Shepherd points out , the developments that took place in post-Renaissance Western music would have been impossible without music notation , with its propensity for large-scale , visually organized construction , abstraction of symbol from sound , co-ordination of multiple events and voices ( through bar-lines , for instance ) , and ‘ spatialized ’ chord structures and progressions . |
| 10 | There were by then ‘ splendid edifices ’ in London , Oxford , Cambridge , Manchester and Glasgow , and to retain researchers at the RI would have been impossible without new accommodation for their research . |
| 11 | The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected , rather than negated , the king 's authority . |
| 12 | The growing importance of trade unions in the 1860s registered this , the very existence — not to mention the strength — of the International would have been impossible without it . |
| 13 | As the tributes flowed in yesterday , Sir Alf said : ‘ If people say England would not have won the World Cup without me as manager , I can say it would have been impossible without Bobby Moore as captain . |