Example sentences of "[adj] for the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 2 | It will not be pleasant for the elderly to live in the town centre . |
| 3 | This makes it impossible for the poor to move to that neighbourhood . |
| 4 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
| 5 | Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with . |
| 6 | Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun . |
| 7 | I , I actually think they probably did use up all that was possible available to them at the time , and so , in some ways , this is against the spirit of the policy , although the policies have been changed , and I hear what Councillor said about improvement to the place , and so I do n't think we 'd serve any useful purpose in stopping these people doing this , because they 're probably not the people who were responsible for the flagrant disobeying of the rules at the time . |
| 8 | Employers demanded that unions bargain with them on an industry-wide basis and their pressure was critical for the eventual securing of the industrial union principle of organisation . |