Example sentences of "[pron] to be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jews ' special characteristics derive from the religion which was given to them by Moses , which stressed one God who was invisible and would not allow images of Himself to be made for worship . |
| 2 | Marie Grubbe was incapable of not loving Søren ; she was neither to be congratulated upon the fact , nor was she to be criticised for it . |
| 3 | Yes I would expect you to be looking for a salary and wherever |
| 4 | is it easier for you to be cared for at home or in hospital ? |
| 5 | When my jealousy put me upon such a vindictive conduct to you I took a bond for the money I had caused you to be troubled for . |
| 6 | Property rights , in this case the legal right for you to be compensated for infringement of your garden and light , enter in two distinct ways . |
| 7 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 8 | If you have to borrow , there is everything to be said for doing it cheaply . |
| 9 | ‘ It feels very good ; I could become euphoric ; but there 's still everything to be fought for . |
| 10 | The poll , conducted by the Market Research Bureau of Ireland ( MRBI ) and published in the latter half of 1987 , also found that 67% of the people in the Irish Republic saw Irish unity as ‘ something to be hoped for ’ . |
| 11 | Despite its title , and for all Fraser 's grave and civil investigative demeanour , the book does not exhibit this past as something to be searched for , uncovered , so much as something which is unfindable , interminable . |
| 12 | He was already renowned for his view that ‘ democracy is something to be struggled for , not conferred from above ’ , and as Kelly points out , this doctrine was voiced during the September protests . |
| 13 | At its best the combination is uniquely potent — a controlled conflagration which almost scorches the ear , a sense of communicative intensity not as an optional extra , or even as something to be striven for , but as a constant presence , only waiting to be channelled in the right direction . |
| 14 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 15 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 16 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 17 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 18 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 19 | As marriage partners view themselves with regard to the prospect of being loved there is something to be said for considering the phileo model . |
| 20 | It is , first of all , the only view according to the internal constitutional laws of the Dominions affected , and there is something to be said for avoiding conflicts of constitutional laws . |
| 21 | However , there is something to be said for being kept waiting by a buyer . |
| 22 | While this ambiguity worried socialist doctrinaires , there was something to be said for leaving the question open , since nobody actually knew how capitalism would respond in practice to a determined reforming government , and meanwhile the ambiguity would tend to maximize the breadth of support for the programme . |
| 23 | There 's something to be said for experiencing bad things and coming back and doing the business . |
| 24 | This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement . |
| 25 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 26 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 27 | There is something to be said for having a well-fed appearance . ’ |
| 28 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 29 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
| 30 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |