Adjective complement with noun phrase

• render: No-one can hate a Brummie as the accent renders contempt impossible.

Modifies a noun

• task: Did you get any mad jokes played on you, impossible tasks given, crap jobs issued.

• dream: And, to be a hero might not mean to conquer impossible dreams which we honestly don't want to reach.

• feat: On this DVD, you'll see six modern masters each perform their own version of this impossible feat.

• odd: Despite almost impossible odds, you win every time!

• situation: If a good person does lie in an impossible situation, that is not to be seen as a " right action " .

• deadline: Restricted by tight budgets and impossible deadlines - why not contact us and see how competitive we are for speed and cost.

Modifying Another Word

• virtually: Poverty is a vicious circle, which is virtually impossible to get out of.

• almost: Despite almost impossible odds, you win every time!

Infinitive complement

• predict: The things that people will use your stuff for is impossible to predict.

• imagine: It is almost impossible to imagine behaving in such a way here in Japan.

• distinguish: Indeed, at some level the two are impossible to distinguish.

• quantify: However, it is impossible to really quantify how many trees equals how much CO2.

• ignore: Wherever your loyalties lie it's impossible to ignore the buzz his films still command.

• tell: It's impossible to tell whether this will be done with a flat line or a peak and trough.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Aimed at critics of the government, the Act proves impossible to enforce.

• seem: It seems impossible to read blogs without seeing this man's name all over them.

• become: By 1977, however, he had become impossible to deal with.

• render: Thus the final presentation what the students had learned from doing the project as a whole was also rendered impossible.

Preposition: for

• anyone: It is quite impossible for anyone rational to equate the drawing of a cartoon with demands for murder.