Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 2 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 3 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 4 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 5 | The ‘ aim should be to use them for purposes compatible with the Green Belt as set out in Circular 14/84 which can include institutional uses ’ . |
| 6 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 7 | In other words , the fact that we get most of our true beliefs from other people , whom we believe are better placed than we are to get them for themselves , is just a special case of the division of labour : namely , of epistemic labour , the labour of acquiring knowledge . |
| 8 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 10 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 11 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 12 | If I were to ask you for your address , what would you do ? |
| 13 | Well I suppose the way to stop is to thank you for your your attendance and declare the meeting closed . |
| 14 | The only way to handle excuses is to treat them for what they are and get on with the business of collecting your money . |
| 15 | DAVID BOWIE is to play it for laughs alongside funnyman Griff Rhys Jones in a new £1.5 million telly show . |
| 16 | The US KRCA-TV Channel 62 is to use it to enhance its programme distribution , video post-production and satellite links , including connections to local sport and entertainment venues and the San Francisco Satellite Centre , a divisions of Watson Communication Systems Inc is to use it for local connections to its satellite teleports for US and overseas transmissions . |
| 17 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 18 | If there is doubt , therefore , as to whether or not a document should be stamped , and if so with what duty , the safest course is to submit it for adjudication . |
| 19 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 20 | More , he is to equip them for their mission just as he had equipped Jesus for his . |
| 21 | John is saying , loud and clear , that the coming of the Spirit upon the Church is to equip it for evangelism . |
| 22 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 23 | If a few more join them , these next few days , who 's to blame you for that ? |
| 24 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 25 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 26 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 27 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 28 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 29 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 30 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |