Example sentences of "it be impossible [prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Some sociologists , particularly phenomenologists , take the argument further and claim that it is impossible for sociologists to find the causes of human action . |
| 4 | A Nairn Free Church minister , Colin Rogerson , said it was impossible for Christians to lower their standards from that of scripture , but added that a common meeting place with the ‘ morally neutral ’ health board was possible . |
| 5 | While accepting that Roman Catholicism contained many errors and abuses , they denied that the pope was the Antichrist and that it was impossible for Catholics to attain salvation . |
| 6 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |