Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On each occasion , every available manservant had been posted to keep watch for soldiers , and she knew that if ever there was a night Tristram should not come visiting , this was it . |
| 2 | Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods . |
| 3 | Ten to 17-year-olds are taught to take responsibility for themselves , to understand the effects of their crime on the local community and to compensate their victim . |
| 4 | Nearby a huge waterwheel has been developed to generate power for a special lift for less able visitors , providing access to the top of the falls . |
| 5 | Over the last 20 years or so a large theoretical literature has been developed to provide tools for the solution of many problems associated with emergency planning ( Kolesar 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Modules with very high or low means or wide or narrow standard deviations are referred to field committees for comment in the subsequent annual review cycle . |
| 7 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |
| 8 | Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge . |
| 9 | Many of the diplomas and certificates offered by the University are intended to prepare students for a particular career path , or to enhance their prospects in the career they have already chosen by extending their knowledge and developing their skills . |
| 10 | I promise him that I am endeavouring to find time for a debate . |
| 11 | The attacks are designed to disrupt plans for an election on May 23rd . |
| 12 | These are designed to detect abilities for leadership and working as team members . |
| 13 | The 5–14 proposals , which are designed to prepare children for the Standard Grade and Revised Highers syllabi currently in place throughout mainstream Scottish Education , will form the basis of Scottish Primary Education for the rest of this century and beyond . |
| 14 | Secondly , most of the fancy school fees plans are designed to make money for the financial institutions which put them together , and for the intermediary or agent who sells them . |
| 15 | Come the next time that sector is needed — assuming it has n't been discarded to make way for more recent data — it 's pulled straight out of RAM rather than through the comparatively slow disk system . |
| 16 | Several manufacturers now market products which are claimed to attract dogs for toilet purposes . |
| 17 | With OECD stocks at their lowest level since 1989 and political uncertainty prevailing in many oil producing regions , prices are expected to remain firm for the remainder of 1992 . |
| 18 | But she and the children are expected to join Andrew for the Royal Family 's annual get-together at Balmoral in Scotland today . |
| 19 | More than 400 people are expected to attend auditions for the Sainsbury 's Choir of the Year competition at York 's Barbican centre on March 21 . |
| 20 | In contrast , adults are expected to assume independence for maintaining a safe environment and are involved in doing so in the home , at work , at play and while travelling . |
| 21 | Jim Murphy , president of the National Union of Students Scotland , said that delegates to the union 's annual meeting are expected to endorse plans for an escalating campaign against proposals to force students to pay individual levies to support campus associations . |
| 22 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 23 | He said 19 people have been committed to stand trial for various offences . |
| 24 | This degree course has been designed to provide opportunities for advanced study in key areas of Spanish , Spanish-American and Portuguese literature and culture . |
| 25 | The event has been organised to raise money for new equipment and starts at 7.30pm in the community centre . |
| 26 | Cos she 'd been wanting to do Aladdin for a couple of years but it was on at The Playhouse |
| 27 | It 's been done to make room for the Motorola Inc 88110 Mbus input/output interface and increased cache . |
| 28 | The undoubted fact that very often this has been the case within religions too which have become merely power-structures and sociological units , does not excuse those who are seeking to understand religion for dismissing beliefs out of hand . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , in the last few months , our assessors have visited and valued a significant number of hotels whose owners are seeking to obtain finance for extensions and acquisitions . |
| 30 | Attempts have been made to offer formulae for determining the ratio decidendi of cases , but few have proved to be really satisfactory . |