Example sentences of "be impossible for [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These conditions of participation are impossible for anyone living on supplementary benefit . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , of course — the meeting to discuss the Christmas bazaar , ’ said Ianthe , remembering now that it would have been impossible for her to have had the quiet evening she had planned . |
| 3 | Her awareness of him was so intense that if his whole body had been dominating hers it would have been impossible for her to have felt more at the mercy of her own emotions . |
| 4 | It would surely have been impossible for anyone to stay morose when surrounded by all these excited , giggling children , and frankly , seeing the problems some of the handicapped youngsters had to contend with had made her horribly ashamed of her own self-absorption . |
| 5 | With the spring shows only a couple of months away , it would be impossible for me to appoint a replacement who could get a collection ready in time . ’ |
| 6 | Both the Ras and his wife appear to have been very anxious and nervous about the child , and I feel that it would be impossible for me to refuse without risking his friendship which will be of the utmost importance to us in the future . |
| 7 | If this brilliant colt attempts the Triple Crown , in Louisville , Maryland , and New York , it would be impossible for him to take in Epsom . |
| 8 | It would be impossible for him to speak of their past , or of her , without seeming vulgarly proprietary ; or of Jim , without seeming barbed ; or of Sam ; or even of work . |
| 9 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
| 10 | Linfield 's search extends throughout the British Isles and the League of Ireland but until the championship is completed it will be impossible for them to open negotiations with certain players . |
| 11 | For him the laws of settlement hardly prevented the " idle poor " from wandering and a stricter enforcement of vagrancy laws would " compel the poor to starve or beg at home ; for there it will be impossible for them to steal or rob without being presently hanged or transported out of the way " . |
| 12 | Last night Tony Sullivan , a friend of Mr Prescott and the North West area representative of the national Amateur Bodybuilding Association , said it would be impossible for anyone to compete at his level without using drugs to boost their performance . |
| 13 | Last night Tony Sullivan , a friend of Mr Prescott and the North West area representative of the national Amateur Bodybuilding Association , said it would be impossible for anyone to compete at his level without using drugs to boost their performance . |
| 14 | According to the theory of relativity , nothing can travel faster than the speed of light , so there would be a region from which it would be impossible for anything to escape . |
| 15 | But it would seem to be impossible for us to return to patristic sensibilities , for the framework of thought which made that Christology possible is no longer with us . |
| 16 | Given our record , I 'd imagined that it would be impossible for us to spend a night under the same roof without spending it together . |
| 17 | Second , however , he asserted that , if your Lordships ' House were to accept Woolwich 's argument , it would be impossible for us to set the appropriate limits to the application of the principle . |
| 18 | He looked at her in silence for several long moments , but instead of denying the accusation he said , ‘ As my acting hostess I expect you to know what they 're like , otherwise it will be impossible for you to explain that honeymooners expecting luxury suites with king-sized beds will have to settle for a roll in the hay . ’ |
| 19 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid that 's the kind of detail it 's impossible for me to remember . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's impossible for me to give you a definite answer . ’ |
| 22 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 23 | It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't say it 's impossible for anybody to add new motivated abilities in later life , ’ he says , ‘ but in all our research we 've never yet seen a completely new direction emerge . ’ |
| 25 | It 's impossible for you to catch up on my record . |
| 26 | After a while we realized you know that 's not on , it 's impossible for us to sort this out you know we need help . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly . |
| 29 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
| 30 | Reforms aimed at refashioning the welfare state , so that it acts as a floor on which the underclass can build by their own efforts , rather than a ceiling through which it is impossible for them to pass , are considered in Part IV . |