Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF medals were to go on offer for patience then Don Kelly would certainly be entitled to collect one . |
| 2 | If , for instance , ICI were to buy into stock for use in later months a product whose price collapsed in the meantime , the loss could amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 3 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 4 | They were to act as trainers for bomber gunners and were armoured accordingly for these manned targets were to be shot at — with frangible bullets ! |
| 5 | Once the right to reject the goods has lapsed , the buyer 's only remedy is to sue for damages for breach of contract . |
| 6 | Both sales and profits must climb if the company is to stay on course for success . |
| 7 | Remembering the bloody tide of revolution in France , paid informers and Government agents lured leading revolutionaries into a trap at Bonnymuir that was to end in transportation for life to the antipodes … |