Example sentences of "it is impossible for [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Legislature can not , according to our constitution , bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation , and it is impossible for Parliament to enact that in a subsequent statute dealing with the same subject-matter there can be no implied repeal .
2 PR IS still about telling the truth , maintains Alan Burnside , of Alan Burnside Communications , Holywood , and he is adamant that without credibility as a truthful source of information , it is impossible for PR to operate successfully over time .
3 As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought .
4 It is impossible for families living on such plots to make a living .
5 In that case until the goods are ascertained it is impossible for risk to pass .
6 It is impossible for Jarrow to raise the 80 per cent or the amount needed for new schools ; so the children will continue to suffer … .
7 Because we know that there is a substantial input of deleterious mutations to populations , and that it is impossible for individuals to combine indefinitely high survival and fertility , both the optimality and the mutation-accumulation explanations of senescence must apply .
8 Are you saying it is impossible for Richmondshire to find an additional ten hectares ?
9 It is impossible for words to express my fixed determination of alleviating this evil — even to the small extent of one neighbourhood only — were it only possible . ’
10 Some sociologists , particularly phenomenologists , take the argument further and claim that it is impossible for sociologists to find the causes of human action .
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