Example sentences of "it be impossible [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our opinion , the driveline is the best BMW has yet made and , despite the change of dynamic emphasis , it 's impossible not to derive great pleasure from this alone . |
| 2 | There is now peat underfoot , and in places on this stretch of track you can find butterwort pinguicula vulgaris — it 's impossible not to tread on it , especially around the green-topped post marked No 1 . |
| 3 | But it 's so strict that it 's impossible not to think about it sometimes . |
| 4 | In such corners of Plenty it is impossible not to fancy yourself deep underground , in the realm of some benighted race of blind burrowers , all listlessly trying to remember the sun . |
| 5 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 6 | Undoubtedly that is a great defect : it is impossible not to wish that , musically speaking , the piece could be played an octave higher . |
| 7 | It is impossible not to connect this finding both with the introduction of machines and with the increasing alarm among the men . |
| 8 | The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , it has been argued that whenever two or more people are together it is impossible not to communicate . |
| 10 | In short , I am , I suppose , a single-minded adversary of the normal beliefs of conventional Conservatives and even more unconventional ones such as Margaret Thatcher , a lady for whom it is impossible not to have a considerable respect . |
| 11 | It is impossible not to feel the contrast between the reception which Ministers give to a body of owners and a body of miners . |
| 12 | It is impossible here to enter into the details of this controversy , but it may be noticed that |
| 13 | If one must assert , against the positivists , that it is impossible simply to wipe out the ideological accretions to a term like ‘ popular music ’ , it is also necessary to insist , against the essentialists , that these accretions , and the musical practices to which they refer , can not be simply disentangled , either from each other or from cultural relations as a whole . |
| 14 | It is impossible exactly to define what is modern dance because the body is the same that has danced for hundreds of years . |
| 15 | It is impossible quickly to reposition a capital-intensive business flexibility is seldom one of its features . |
| 16 | It is impossible now to say . |
| 17 | The statement by Adam Smith that businessmen 's meetings , even for ‘ merriment and diversion ’ , usually end up in connivance to restrict competition , is often quoted , but the sentence which follows it is equally perceptive : ‘ It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings , by any law which either could be executed , or would be consistent with liberty and justice . ’ |
| 18 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 19 | Overall , most employers felt that it was impossible completely to prevent an executive from moving . |
| 20 | Mrs Young did her best to soothe her , but it was impossible not to respect her fears . |
| 21 | brought him there for the view , but it was impossible not to watch just the aircraft lights , perhaps macabrely hoping one would lose its grip . |
| 22 | It was impossible not to like Claudia . |
| 23 | It was impossible not to respond to his smile . |
| 24 | It was impossible not to compare him with her stepfather , so cold , reserved and cautious , and whose passions seemed solely aroused by his business and moneymaking skill . |
| 25 | It was impossible not to remember , after what Timothy Gedge had said . |
| 26 | But it was impossible not to talk about it . |
| 27 | It was impossible not to notice Anna Essinger . |
| 28 | Someone who was tall and black-haired , with milkmaid cheeks and deep , dark eyes ; eyes so deep and dark it was impossible not to notice them . |
| 29 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 30 | Their long , slurred vowels rendered their German almost incomprehensible to me , though it was impossible not to listen in as they argued more loudly and grinned more broadly at each other 's jokes as the beer did its work . |