Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 've allowed yourself to be persuaded either by Lotta 's silver tongue or her golden purse to attempt to defraud me — then your best course of action now would be to make for the door before I remember that the blood of the ancient Vikings still runs in my veins ! ’ |
| 3 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 4 | It was not poor people who were to blame for the dampness but poor housing that was making the people poor . |
| 5 | This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores . |
| 6 | A pioneering agreement between the German government and private industry is to provide for the clean-up and reconstruction of one of eastern Germany 's most polluted industrial sites , centred on the old Mansfeld metal conglomerate , near Halle . |
| 7 | They are to blame for the misery and squalor . |
| 8 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 9 | According to the Act , three conditions had to be met if the Board was to pay for the repair and stabilization of the building . |