Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never to discover for what misdemeanour Félix Vaugirard had been penalized . |
| 2 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 3 | And , of course , I was n't present as a spectator , I was there to sit for Pradier . |
| 4 | Round the corner was Dixon 's Blazes , a blast furnace , and the Workers ' Circle , where dreams of socialist emancipation were debated — dreams which were soon to fade for Glasser . |
| 5 | And when Merrill explained to him that she was here to pay for Elise 's Shaker-style chest Luke Travis 's reaction might betray something . |
| 6 | Baker-Finch had had an unlucky start by spinning back into the burn at the 1st , and when I checked the leaderboard we were a stroke behind Watson with Langer , so there was all to play for . |
| 7 | The conversation ended the official programme of the Leeds Congress , but there was more to come for a party of about forty participants , including the President and Professor Kerney and his wife , for whom an excursion into Wensleydale by train and horse drawn wagonettes had been organised . |
| 8 | Scientists were unsure however whether they were also to blame for severe fogs reported in parts of Malaysia , Singapore , the Philippines and Thailand . |
| 9 | Some of them offered help , but more usually they were there to ask for favours — which nearly always meant money . |
| 10 | THE Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( Imro ) has admitted it was partly to blame for allowing the Maxwell pension fraud to happen and that it was ‘ thumped ’ for its supervision of the Maxwell fund managers by the parliamentary select committee on social security . |
| 11 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 12 | I always thought he was largely to blame for the relegation in 1982 . |
| 13 | Axel shuddered , then continued , ‘ Well , he was partly to blame for my downfall . ’ |
| 14 | One 's blood ran cold when German politicians , rather than condemning such violence outright , instead found it more expedient to talk of clamping down on immigration — as though immigrants themselves were partly to blame for being beaten up and firebombed . |