Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vandalism and theft are to blame for the 23pc rise . |
| 2 | Some 67 schools in the North-East are to compete for the £8000 prize money on offer in the inaugural Northern Echo Schools Cricket Championship . |
| 3 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 4 | Once the right to reject the goods has lapsed , the buyer 's only remedy is to sue for damages for breach of contract . |
| 5 | The effect of the new subsection is to cater for this problem by limiting the amount of the capital sum which can be brought into charge to income tax upon the settlor where a loan is repaid . |
| 6 | The corollary for the trainer is to look for patterns which exist in complex material and introduce the trainee to the patterns as well as to the separate facts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So far about 400 hectares of land have been reclaimed and the programme is to continue for as long as is necessary . |
| 9 | As was pointed out in Section 1 , one of the functions of the present study is to cater for the interests of those seeking replicable materials for English-language teaching . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 12 | Recent studies suggest that ozone depletion is to blame for widespread blindness among sheep in southern Chile , on the edge of the Antarctic ozone hole . |
| 13 | It is important to stress that ill-health in old age is not just the result of physical and mental wear and decline , or that the only effective action is to call for the doctor . |
| 14 | His remedy was to sue for breach of contract . |
| 15 | If the Club was to look for a return on its money , as any other investing institution would , the criteria for that return would be two fold ; a boom in the popularity of tennis at grass roots level and/or impressive results at international level . |
| 16 | The aim of the research was to prepare for the development of a full proposal on ‘ The Management of Technical Uncertainty ’ . |
| 17 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 18 | But he never went so far as to say that his intention was to qualify for legal aid , the court said . |
| 19 | Anyway he immediately started saying how he 'd been a Leeds fan since the age of five and how his big ambition was to play for them ! |
| 20 | From 1917 onwards , however , the educational system became the chosen battle-ground where the child/adolescent Nizan was to struggle for personal identity and stability . |
| 21 | The Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry on Jan. 9 announced that the Czechoslovak side was to press for a complete withdrawal before the end of 1990 of the estimated 75,000 Soviet troops stationed in the country since the entry of Warsaw Pact forces in 1968 . |
| 22 | Jane had a fleeting affair with a tall , rangy Scottish lecturer , whose main pleasure was to walk for miles . |
| 23 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 24 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 25 | Perhaps if My Lady were to wait for him tonight , there in the dark , he might recite some love poetry … a sonnet he has composed ? ’ |
| 26 | If a constable were to ask for a ladder to rescue a cat from a tree , the person who declined to lend his assistance would commit no offence thereby . |
| 27 | ‘ Coleman 's duties with the Ordnance were to examine for soundness all ‘ recruit ’ horses , advise on the treatment of disease , inspect at outstations , bringing in such cases as he thought necessary for treatment at Woolwich , to lecture occasionally to the officers , artillery cadets and farriers , and to direct the shoeing . ’ |
| 28 | An avenue open to persons aggrieved , who feel they have suffered injustice because of maladministration is to ask for their complaints to be looked into by either the Local Commissioner or the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 29 | He said in 90 Minutes the other week that his dream is to play for a big Italian club . |
| 30 | The critic 's skill is to identify for each and every work just what the various priorities are , and apply those criteria uniformly to every version . |