Example sentences of "[verb] that it be impossible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the two structures are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate and distinguish them . |
| 2 | The Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) emphasised in stronger terms the problems associated with financial change and maintained that it is impossible to define money , because there is no clear criterion with which to determine those assets that are part of the money supply . |
| 3 | Elsa Lawson , from Newton Aycliffe , who helped organise the event , said it was a mark of how well Mrs Harding knew the people involved that it was impossible to keep the presentation a secret . |
| 4 | This was followed in the case of Ellen Street Estates Ltd. v. The Minister of Health ( C.A. , 1934 ) where the court found that it was impossible for Parliament to enact that , in a subsequent statute dealing with the same subject-matter , there should be no implied repeal . |
| 5 | He accepts that it is impossible for mortal man to lay claim to attain , or to possess , perfect Truth . |
| 6 | Aristotle might affirm that it was impossible for another cosmos like our own to exist . |
| 7 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 8 | Some of Bach 's melodies , however , are so freely formed that it is impossible to decide whether , like the above Sarabande , they could have had a simple outline as their origin , or whether Bach followed a free vein of inspiration , ignoring a well-defined construction . |
| 9 | Earlier this century , some cosmologists argued that it was impossible to theorise coherently about the beginning of the universe , let alone about the end . |
| 10 | The possibility of breaking up British Gas into competing units was also successfully opposed by Sir Denis , who argued that it was impossible to achieve competition in a natural monopoly . |
| 11 | High levels of radiation mean that it is impossible to inspect or repair the suspect welds . |
| 12 | Brighton says that it is impossible to quantify the likely gains from an international facility , because a number of important factors ( such as displacement costs ) depend heavily on prevailing economic conditions . |
| 13 | Studies of the nuclear fuel cycle show that it is impossible to insulate the development of nuclear power from the capacity to build nuclear weapons . |
| 14 | When the case came to court , the magistrate evidently decided that it was impossible to say which party was to blame in a scuffle of this sort . |
| 15 | It is so cleverly written that it is impossible to put into my words , everything inside the plot seems to the reader to be perfect . |
| 16 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has said that it is impossible to itemise every circumstance that amounts to a breach of natural justice , while making it clear that , for example , a manager should not normally act both as ‘ witness and judge ’ in the procedure leading to a decision to dismiss . |
| 17 | The following table of classifications of errors from test recognition data shows that it is impossible to tell what type the original error was . |
| 18 | One young woman stated that it was impossible for her to come off and stay off while her partner was still using : |
| 19 | He had found some fence posts slack and claimed that it was impossible to reach the lifebelts from outside the fence . |
| 20 | Miguel de Unamuno , the Spanish philosopher , made a point of this when he showed that it is impossible to separate belief from emotion : |
| 21 | My time at the DHSS showed that it was impossible to make any significant change without a fierce public and professional battle — even when improvement meant more resources for health care or put right long-standing problems . |
| 22 | Because of the scale of the disaster , it was agreed that it was impossible to recreate so the decision was taken to concentrate on the rescue of a particular individual , Martin Baptie . |
| 23 | Defendants are permitted to prove their innocence to the extent of whatever accounts and receipts they may have , but case law has shown that it is impossible to prove that savings from wages are not the fruit of crime , being just money in the bank . |
| 24 | There , it can be shown that it is impossible to understand the plans of present-day villages without reference to the abandoned roads and former areas of farms and cottages which remain as earthworks . |
| 25 | We are , therefore , forced to conclude that it is impossible to generalize about TNC employment practices in export zones per se , though we can generalize about the effects of TNC employment practices on particular industries and particular workforces . |
| 26 | But was she trying to confuse the plot by saying : ‘ I know that it is impossible for me to win four Grand Slam tournaments this year . ’ |
| 27 | The immediate application of this engine was in pumping water out of mine workings , which had often become so badly flooded that it was impossible for them to be worked , and pumps driven by waterwheels were unequal to the huge drainage problems . |
| 28 | Silviu Brucan , a leading NSF member , was reported on Feb. 3 as stating that it was impossible to share executive power among so many parties . |
| 29 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 30 | Admirers of Edison 's tinfoil phonograph are on record as saying that it was impossible to tell the difference between the recording and the original . |