Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 2 | And , put simply , followers of Christ exist for Christ , to please him , as he ‘ looks on ’ ; for whatever we do in word or deed , we are to do for the honour of Jesus Christ the Lord . |
| 3 | A better approach seems to be to look for the research with prospects of being revolutionary , that is of establishing a new framework , or deriving new bandwagons . |
| 4 | Our European priorities now should be to campaign for the sort of policies and changes we would like to see in nineteen ninety six and seek the earliest possible opt-in to the Social Chapter . |
| 5 | BLUNDERING birdwatchers may be to blame for the failure of England 's only breeding pair of Golden Eagles to produce chicks for the first time in four years . |
| 6 | Editor , — The Today radio programme has reported that police surgeons or forensic medical examiners are to call for a ban on methadone for prisoners in police custody . |
| 7 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 8 | Professor Stephen Holgate , chairman of the Department of Health 's Committee on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution , cited recent research in Aberdeen which suggested that car fumes were to blame for a doubling in the numbers of children suffering from asthma and hayfever . |
| 9 | Bomber Command 's immediate priorities after this raid switched to bombing the concentration of invasion barges in the Channel ports , but raids on the German capital were to follow for the rest of the war . |
| 10 | Their purpose in coming here had been to intercede for the soul of Colonel Fergusson . |
| 11 | If they like it , the answer is to go for a swim by buying PEPs , ’ says Amanda . |
| 12 | ‘ What I 'd really like to do now is to go for a drink with you . |
| 13 | If the problem is to be resolved now , the only option open to the Killinchy Club is to try for a date outside of the month of May 1994 , which would leave all the options open for any North West date . |
| 14 | That is to try for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict through a United Nations peace conference . |
| 15 | For the effect of closure in terms of intergenerational movement is to provide for the reproduction of common life experiences over the generations . ’ |
| 16 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 17 | The other approach is to look for the advantage to the individual of behaving in a particular way . |
| 18 | The council is to press for a speed-up in changes to the power pool and implementation of recommendations in the Commons report . |
| 19 | The second thing we need to do is to lobby for the repeal of the unwinding of the safety net . |
| 20 | We have just suggested that one way of interpreting these apparently different patterns of error in the production of open and closed class lexical items is to argue for the existence of two separate vocabularies which are accessed during the production of spoken language . |
| 21 | It 's to pay for the centre until the end of January . |
| 22 | One way to avoid this is to think for a moment before beginning , searching for some idea , however brief , on which our imagination can work . |
| 23 | Its articles and memorandum state that the overall objective for the company is to exploit for the community of West Belfast job finding and job training techniques . |
| 24 | In the ‘ dependent ’ world of the first half of the 20th century , movements for national liberation and independence were the main agents for the political emancipation of most of the globe , that is to say for an elimination of imperial administration and , more significantly , direct military domination by the imperial powers . |
| 25 | So , if you believe the shop is to blame for the stain on your coat , you 're entitled to claim compensation for its value . |
| 26 | Experts say the recession is to blame for the rise in office crime as workers try to top up their income . |
| 27 | Who or what is to blame for the production of this sex monster who terrorised five counties for nearly six months ? |
| 28 | The next step is to prepare for the audition at a drama school and find the right kind of textual material which will allow you to show the best of yourself . |
| 29 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 30 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |