Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
| 2 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |
| 3 | Had I not had to do that , to meet the high spending levels of local authorities , that £50 million could have been available for housing . |
| 4 | Biologists believe the same benthic algae may have been responsible for animal deaths on Loch Lubnaig , near Callander , not far from my Stirling home , and at Loch Insh on Speyside in the past two years . |
| 5 | If these seem relatively modest benefits , it is perhaps more useful to consider whether a more radical and comprehensive anti-monopoly policy would have been better for society . |
| 6 | Clearly , the observations made by Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle , for example , would have been inconsequential for science had they remained Darwin 's private experiences . |
| 7 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 8 | Case records were retrieved and examined to established if these patients would have been suitable for transplant assessment , either on the basis of poor quality of life or expected survival , in the absence of transplantation , of less than one year . |
| 9 | It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet . |
| 10 | Many of these candidates had completed their studies much earlier in the session and would have been eligible for certification at earlier dates if centres had requested this . |
| 11 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 12 | The attractions of LET's scheme are easy for city councillors to appreciate . |