Example sentences of "it [is] impossible for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’
4 ‘ I 'm afraid that 's the kind of detail it 's impossible for me to remember .
5 ‘ I 'm afraid it 's impossible for me to give you a definite answer . ’
6 It 's impossible for there to be a lower point , simply because of this result and the fact that I am the manager in charge of a team representing the country . ’
7 However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer .
8 ‘ 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 . ’
9 Standing astride the Cat 's Back ridge in the Black Mountains with valleys on three sides it 's impossible for your spirits not to soar with the buzzards flying high overhead .
10 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 .
11 It 's impossible for you to catch up on my record .
12 Medically , it 's impossible for someone who has lost their sight due to glaucoma to get it back . ’
13 Compton Mackenzie truly said that while it is easy for a woman to behave like a man , it is impossible for her to behave like a gentleman .
14 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 . ’
15 She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ?
16 I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing .
17 But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’
18 It is impossible for me not to be absolutely certain of it .
19 According to his account to the House of Commons , Baldwin replied : ‘ Sir , that is most grievous news , and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today . ’
20 A.I 'm afraid it is impossible for me to guess what was wrong with your Ram .
21 It is impossible for me , for reasons of space , to do more than summarise the most relevant parts of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada .
22 It is impossible for me to work the way I want to work when she is on the stage . ’
23 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 .
24 Some diets may emerge so hard that it is impossible for them to be eaten by weanling mice .
25 mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next .
26 If the mud flats freeze over , it is impossible for them to find sufficient food .
27 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 .
28 They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly .
29 Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) .
30 The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble .
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