Example sentences of "[that] it is impossible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Senior party figures argue that it is impossible for the rules to be changed to restore the nomination to the sitting MP . |
| 3 | So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another . |
| 4 | As its name implies , demand-deficient ( DD ) unemployment occurs when there is a general deficiency of the demand for labour in the economy such that it is impossible for all those who are seeking work to be employed . |
| 5 | He accepts that it is impossible for mortal man to lay claim to attain , or to possess , perfect Truth . |
| 6 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 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 | As a general rule , this cynical objection is far too crude , not least because it often rests on a false assumption — that it is impossible for theological statements to be both placatory and genuine . |
| 9 | Some diets may emerge so hard that it is impossible for them to be eaten by weanling mice . |
| 10 | And he takes this to show that it is impossible for good empiricists to avoid going along with him . |
| 11 | Some sociologists , particularly phenomenologists , take the argument further and claim that it is impossible for sociologists to find the causes of human action . |
| 12 | It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |