Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [adj] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life , in fact , would have been impossible for most higher forms , with only the hardiest microbes surviving . |
| 2 | If the proposals which I put forward on behalf of the Conservative group had been adopted , £15,000 not £1,500 would have been available for practical environmental issues this year . |
| 3 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 4 | SIR — The England cricket squad contesting the World Cup in Australia included players who would have been eligible for three other nations — West Indies , South Africa and Zimbabwe . |
| 5 | The change in status would have allowed Switzerland to participate fully in broader Framework programmes , although it would not yet have been eligible for direct financial support . |
| 6 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 7 | This may have been fine for early disposable e-mail , but as office systems of all kinds have developed into tools to create , store , retrieve and delete the only copy of more substantial record types , it is necessary to institute more organised retention methods . |
| 8 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |