Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] almost impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modugno said it would have been almost impossible for Mansell to see the flag while following closely behind the McLaren-Honda of Ayrton Senna . |
| 2 | The parents had to be able to present a full defence , he said , and if the whole case had been heard in Inverness , it would have been almost impossible to fully safeguard their interests and get everybody in the right place at the right time . |
| 3 | It was essential to get as much flying time as possible , for John was off to Wildenrath the following day and it would have been almost impossible to arrange another date to carry out the all-important conversion . |
| 4 | Without at least some form of official introduction it would have been almost impossible to get the co-operation and approval necessary to visit any government penal centre or institution . |
| 5 | The establishment of a welfare state and the state purchase of major industries would have been almost impossible in many other years of the twentieth century for they would have precipitated a sterling crisis as bankers and firms switched their assets out of sterling and into foreign currencies . |
| 6 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it was widely suspected that Thomas 's race was an important consideration in his nomination , for not only was it politically expedient to maintain a black representative on the Supreme Court , but to have secured confirmation from the Democrat-controlled Senate for a white male conservative would have been almost impossible . |
| 8 | At an ordinary time it would have been almost impossible to enter undetected , but tomorrow morning , when the Lord of Parfois brought home from France his forty knights and their followings , and the entire population of the castle came out to meet them and bring them in , then one more insignificant boy might very well slip unnoticed into the throng and get by the guard at the gate unchallenged . |