Example sentences of "[was/were] impossible for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |
| 2 | It was impossible for middle class feminists to attack theories of sexual difference directly because of their purported scientific authenticity . |
| 3 | In four patients cannulation of the portal vein was impossible for anatomical reasons . |
| 4 | As a result of the controls it was impossible for certain firms to obtain raw materials and replacements , for which no domestic substitutes were available . |
| 5 | All items had to be packed so that they weighed less than twenty-two pounds and sometimes there were so many parcels filling the room that it was impossible for other customers to pass through the door ; the postmaster would then telephone the Newtown depot to request a special van to come and collect them . |
| 6 | Again , as it was impossible for wheeled implements to cross the frequent deep water-cuts of a field ploughed in this way , all cultivation had to be done along the stetch itself ; and this meant that implements — drills , hoes , harrows , etc. — had to be adapted to fit the width of stetch used . |
| 7 | Like its owner , it was short and stubby , not long like the young man 's , but thick , so thick that it was impossible for most women to put their hand round it . |
| 8 | Aristotle might affirm that it was impossible for another cosmos like our own to exist . |
| 9 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
| 10 | Money was allocated for coaches and teacher supervision ( now that there are so many educational cutbacks on outings ) , special allowances for printing and photographic paper were made , as it was impossible for some schools to provide such basics . |
| 11 | It was impossible for any society to absorb without hardship a shock like that of the massive loss of trade to Gdynia . |
| 12 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |