Example sentences of "[pron] be [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 2 | Resolved , That this House takes note of European Community Documents Nos. 7573/91 and the Supplementary Explanatory Memoranda submitted by the Department of Trade and Industry on 6th November and 11th December 1991 and 10157/91 , relating to standards for satellite broadcasting of television signals , and 8122/91 , relating to audio-visual production in the context of the strategy for high definition television ; and endorses the Government 's approach which is to aim for the correct balance between promoting new broadcasting technologies , protecting the rights of satellite broadcasters and serving the best interests of consumers . |
| 3 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 4 | By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years . |
| 5 | The leader of the council , Robert Gould , said later he accepted that the 1.5 per cent pay increase was totally unrealistic , but said the unions should be directing their anger at the Conservative Government , which was to blame for the situation . |
| 6 | It implies that in some way Wainwright himself was to blame for the outdatedness of some of his copious details . |
| 7 | THE LIEUTENANT SOUNDS HIS BUGLE TO ASSEMBLE THE ARCHERS WHO ARE TO SHOOT FOR THE ‘ ANCIENT SILVER ARROW ’ ( Page 65 ) |
| 8 | It was not poor people who were to blame for the dampness but poor housing that was making the people poor . |
| 9 | After a while when the sickness had subsided , she opened the door and was about to creep cautiously away , when she heard her father speak some words that halted her : ‘ Who 's to blame for the club nights , I ask you ? ’ he was saying . |
| 10 | Harrison , who is to vote for the Natural Law candidate in Henley-on-Thames , said : ‘ I know some of the people from the party and they are nice . |
| 11 | It is not only the government who is to blame for the poor conditions of domestic workers . |
| 12 | He believed she was to blame for the tide of scandal enveloping the Royal Family . |
| 13 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 14 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |
| 15 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 16 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |
| 17 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
| 18 | And , put simply , followers of Christ exist for Christ , to please him , as he ‘ looks on ’ ; for whatever we do in word or deed , we are to do for the honour of Jesus Christ the Lord . |
| 19 | If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ . |
| 20 | Then we are to pray for the things we need for the doing of that holy will — food for the body and soul , forgiveness for the failures and sins of the past , and help to forgive others who sin against us , protection in temptation and deliverance from evil . |
| 21 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 22 | We 're to blame for the way we allow ourselves to be treated , but curiously the solution does not lie in our hands . |
| 23 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 24 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 25 | Investigators concluded that no one was to blame for the blaze started by a spotlight overheating a curtain . |
| 26 | The official report says no one was to blame for the fire , which started after a halogen lamp overheated near a curtain . |
| 27 | Whoever 's to blame for the alert , it 's cost thousands of pounds in lost trade for city centre businesses . |
| 28 | Anti-fascists argued that whoever was to blame for the violence , the police and courts treated them more harshly , and the National Council for Civil Liberties certainly produced reliable testimony to back up those claims . |
| 29 | All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux . |
| 30 | They are to blame for the misery and squalor . |