Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [to-vb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Lord President ( Cooper ) in IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 at 230 stated that : … it is not enough that a person resident in the United Kingdom should somehow have derived benefit from the income of a foreign possession … the duty of the Court was to seek for an actual remittance to , and receipt in , the United Kingdom and not to be lead astray by an " equivalent " to a remittance or receipt , or a " constructive receipt " . |
| 4 | His method was to look for a regular solution of the field equations in region IV , and then to obtain the global solution simply by requiring that the metric coefficients be continuous across the boundaries . |
| 5 | A report in the Financial Times of April 23 suggested that while the tour was designed specifically to bolster Arab support for Libya in its confrontation with the UN [ see p. 38883 ] , its broader purpose was to press for a united Arab front in future dealings with the West , including the ongoing Middle East peace talks . |
| 6 | The British could only watch and hope , yet at the same time they provoked some American complaints that their instinctive reaction in an emergency was to look for a compromise . |
| 7 | The idea was to plan for an increase in Berlin 's population to 1.5 million . |
| 8 | The alternative option , promoted by an intriguing coalition of US Labour Advisors and the Japan Communist Party was to press for a basic minimum wage across all industries with additional earnings to be related to productivity not age . |
| 9 | HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word . |