Example sentences of "would have [be] impossible [prep] " 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 . |
| 14 | With this freedom , much could happen which would have been impossible under Lanfranc . |
| 15 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 16 | Life , in fact , would have been impossible for most higher forms , with only the hardiest microbes surviving . |
| 17 | Even so , it would have been impossible for an insect to grow much larger , say to have a girth more than a quarter of an inch in diameter . |
| 18 | It would have been impossible for Liza not to realise her growing power over the opposite sex , nor fail to notice the kind of dumb adoration in which Corporal Carrow held her . |
| 19 | That would have been impossible for the Shah . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , of course — the meeting to discuss the Christmas bazaar , ’ said Ianthe , remembering now that it would have been impossible for her to have had the quiet evening she had planned . |
| 21 | The system has also been ported to an MS-DOS environment , an operation which would have been impossible for the rule-based system . |
| 22 | That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through . |
| 23 | Her awareness of him was so intense that if his whole body had been dominating hers it would have been impossible for her to have felt more at the mercy of her own emotions . |
| 24 | A baby then would have been impossible for them both . |
| 25 | Just a few months ago walking like this would have been impossible for 12 year old Ashley Smith . |
| 26 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |
| 27 | His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner . |
| 28 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 29 | She had hung up a Breughel pint , and the golden patterns on the wall brought it to life — the Elizabethan diamond panes casting shafts of light and designs which would have been impossible through a modern window . |
| 30 | If it had been wet it would have been impossible on horseback , but he managed it . |