Example sentences of "would be impossible for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Both the Ras and his wife appear to have been very anxious and nervous about the child , and I feel that it would be impossible for me to refuse without risking his friendship which will be of the utmost importance to us in the future .
2 With the spring shows only a couple of months away , it would be impossible for me to appoint a replacement who could get a collection ready in time . ’
3 If this brilliant colt attempts the Triple Crown , in Louisville , Maryland , and New York , it would be impossible for him to take in Epsom .
4 It would be impossible for him to speak of their past , or of her , without seeming vulgarly proprietary ; or of Jim , without seeming barbed ; or of Sam ; or even of work .
5 If the little creatures were really blank paper at birth , nobody would ever have the slightest difficulty in writing on them whatever their particular culture required , and it would be impossible for them ever to surprise their elders by unexpected conduct .
6 Given our record , I 'd imagined that it would be impossible for us to spend a night under the same roof without spending it together .
7 Second , however , he asserted that , if your Lordships ' House were to accept Woolwich 's argument , it would be impossible for us to set the appropriate limits to the application of the principle .
8 It would be impossible for anyone who was there to forget her singing , particularly of the Agnus Dei .
9 The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ )
10 Last night Tony Sullivan , a friend of Mr Prescott and the North West area representative of the national Amateur Bodybuilding Association , said it would be impossible for anyone to compete at his level without using drugs to boost their performance .
11 Last night Tony Sullivan , a friend of Mr Prescott and the North West area representative of the national Amateur Bodybuilding Association , said it would be impossible for anyone to compete at his level without using drugs to boost their performance .
12 According to the theory of relativity , nothing can travel faster than the speed of light , so there would be a region from which it would be impossible for anything to escape .
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