Example sentences of "would have been [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back . |
| 3 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance . |
| 5 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 6 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 7 | So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that . |
| 8 | It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't . |
| 9 | Life , in fact , would have been impossible for most higher forms , with only the hardiest microbes surviving . |
| 10 | It must be noted however that Alliance and UPNI supporters were also responsible for about 1,300 non-transferable votes and it would have been necessary for these either to have remained non-transferable or to have favoured SDLP as much as UUUC for those votes to have had no effect on the relative position of SDLP and VUPP . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It would have been unthinkable for former premier Margaret Thatcher to go to America without being received by then-president Ronald Reagan amid tributes to the two country 's ‘ special relationship ’ . |
| 15 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |