Example sentences of "[det] be [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 3 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has only one aim and that is to please for a fee . ’ |
| 6 | That is to try for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict through a United Nations peace conference . |