Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hungary , for example , the Germans are to blame for the Hungarian Holocaust , the ‘ Russians ’ for Soviet communism and now , in some circles , the Jews for the failures of capitalism . |
| 2 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 3 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 4 | The Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry on Jan. 9 announced that the Czechoslovak side was to press for a complete withdrawal before the end of 1990 of the estimated 75,000 Soviet troops stationed in the country since the entry of Warsaw Pact forces in 1968 . |
| 5 | He said in 90 Minutes the other week that his dream is to play for a big Italian club . |
| 6 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 7 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 8 | This will amount to about a fifth of the £20m Aegon is to pay for the 40 per cent cut in the business . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best way to preserve the integrity of Croatia is to work for a permanent settlement after a lasting ceasefire , and that recognition is just one of the issues that has to be sorted out before there can be a successful conclusion ? |
| 10 | That job was to last for the following eleven years . |
| 11 | Scientists say high levels of air pollution are to blame for the severe symptoms affecting people with asthma and hay fever . |
| 12 | Scottish prison officers are to strike for the first time in their history on November the fifth . |
| 13 | Its main aims were to press for a new constitution based on a formal state treaty and to slow the moves towards a market economy . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Where there is such a material alteration , the proper procedure is to apply for a fresh grant . |
| 15 | Former Puma tighthead Serafin Dengra , now playing in France , adds : ‘ The Argentine RU is to blame for the present low standards . |
| 16 | One aim of experiments is to search for a compact spelling which can show sound and meaning as directly as possible , meet the needs of all who learn and use it , and is still close to existing spelling which has , so to speak , been ‘ cleaned up ’ . |
| 17 | The Lord President ( Cooper ) in IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 at 230 stated that : … it is not enough that a person resident in the United Kingdom should somehow have derived benefit from the income of a foreign possession … the duty of the Court was to seek for an actual remittance to , and receipt in , the United Kingdom and not to be lead astray by an " equivalent " to a remittance or receipt , or a " constructive receipt " . |
| 18 | To leave a working-class environment is to head for the unknown . |
| 19 | Fimrite ( 1976:204 ) disputes that alcohol is to blame for the apparent upsurge of violence in the 1970s . |
| 20 | His method was to look for a regular solution of the field equations in region IV , and then to obtain the global solution simply by requiring that the metric coefficients be continuous across the boundaries . |
| 21 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 22 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 23 | Eastman Kodak Co 's Japanese unit has had to pay about $20,000 each to those eight new college graduates for reneging on its promise to employ them : the money is to compensate for the psychological damage the last-minute cancellation may have caused them , and provide some of the salary they expected . |
| 24 | Our response to tender documents which state that this may be the case is to ask for the detailed information we need to make a liability assessment and that 's not always forthcoming . ’ |
| 25 | Only we are behaving as if it 's nothing to do with us and that only the West is to blame for the thousands who turn their back on us . ’ |
| 26 | The best course is to apply for the relevant certificate at an early stage . |
| 27 | Bangladesh and India were to extend for a further three years the trade agreement due to expire in October 1992 , All-India Radio reported on Aug. 6 following talks in New Delhi . |
| 28 | Increasingly , the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession . |
| 29 | UNTAC 's idea is to bid for the 100,000 soldiers ' loyalty by paying their wages . |
| 30 | However , it can not be discounted that the idea is to prepare for a direct dictatorship in case the democratic process again turns the country towards socialism . |