Example sentences of "impossible for [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation . |
| 2 | If the little creatures were really blank paper at birth , nobody would ever have the slightest difficulty in writing on them whatever their particular culture required , and it would be impossible for them ever to surprise their elders by unexpected conduct . |
| 3 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 4 | yet without answers to these questions and others like them , it is impossible for us fully to understand our own history and , more importantly , impossible to advise today 's emergent nations on the routes they should be following . |
| 5 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |