Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The phrase ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ is evidently used in a fairly narrow sense : otherwise it would not have been necessary for Parliament to provide , by section 8(2) , that the expression includes diagnostic procedures , and ancillary procedures such as the administration of an anaesthetic . |
| 3 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 4 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus , if the historical evidence seems to suggest that meat merged with mate , this can not be a valid interpretation according to this principle , because if it had happened then both meat and mate would subsequently have been eligible for merger with meet : speakers would not have known the difference . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | She therefore would not have been liable for breach of contract . |
| 14 | In short , it appears that temperature/time relationships may not have been unfavourable for hydrocarbon generation and preservations in the Variscan foreland and at least the leading thrust sheet , warranting attention to the availability of source rocks , reservoir rocks , cap rocks , and structures . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The attractions of LET's scheme are easy for city councillors to appreciate . |