Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this chapter is to open up for discussion some of the complex and ambivalent reactions which exist in us all towards old age and old people . |
| 2 | Their job was to watch out for cases of smallpox and cholera . |
| 3 | Tenders were to go out for provisions , and every person in the infirmary was to find his own tea ( except for the house surgeon , the matron and Dr. Yeats ' pupil ) . |
| 4 | As a result there are now Government , as well as private consumer organizations , whose purpose is to stand up for consumers ' rights . |
| 5 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |