Example sentences of "that it be 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 .
15 Rachel was undeniably wonderful with the baby ; and took such joy from having Maggie with her that it was impossible for even Phoebe to feel much guilt about the times when she was free .
16 He wrote : ‘ The gods seem to have possessed my soul and turned it inside out … so that it was impossible for me to stay idle at home . ’
17 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 .
18 And I thought you felt as I did , that it was impossible for you to have a child . ’
19 The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature .
20 While accepting that Roman Catholicism contained many errors and abuses , they denied that the pope was the Antichrist and that it was impossible for Catholics to attain salvation .
21 I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week .
22 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 .
23 One young woman stated that it was impossible for her to come off and stay off while her partner was still using :
24 We do not need to be told that the factory girls were probably doing their best to make sure that it was impossible for her to pass without brushing against them , and that this would be construed as an insult .
25 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 .
26 Aristotle might affirm that it was impossible for another cosmos like our own to exist .
27 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 .
28 " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for .
29 She had a feeling of being carried such distances by the water that it was impossible for any more harm to come to her .
30 But this did not mean that it was impossible for the House of Commons to exercise some influence .
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