Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Essentially their contribution has been to provide co-operative networks for the exchange of teaching material , experience and ideas .
2 Farmers on the Somerset Levels are to receive extra payments for agreeing to allow surface flooding of their fields between December and May , and ensuring that water levels in ditches do not sink below the mean field level in the summer months .
3 For Scotland , with more than half their current first-choice XV seconded for duty with the Lions , are to award full caps for this summer 's three Tests against Fiji , Western Samoa and Tonga .
4 This procedure is most suitable for bills that do not raise issues on which parties automatically disagree ; to use select committee-type sittings on such a bill would be to provide further time for repetition of standard partisan arguments .
5 One of the first steps will be to organise genetic counselling for all children not yet tested .
6 An alternative might be to use separate subfields for different parts of the number .
7 So even if he believed that from an economic point of view the best decision would be to deny any recovery for emotional injury , he would still ask whether the role of law in encouraging reliance and coordination would be much damaged if he ignored the precedents , and , if it would , whether this loss would be made up in the gains he foresees from the change .
8 A positive and practical way for the Christian community would be to offer necessary support for those willing to leave the arms industry .
9 TNC does not seem to recognize how worthwhile changes in assessment need to be ‘ slowed ’ by teachers and to have a wider impact on curriculum and teaching methods if they are to have beneficial consequences for achievement levels ; that such reform takes time and considerable teacher commitment ; and that a heavy investment in INSET is needed .
10 If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help .
11 If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ?
12 The objectives were to obtain some feeling for this environment , and also to compare the readings at various angles of view .
13 There are undoubtedly people who will still say , ‘ I do n't want my little Johnny to get food poisoning and that 's the end of the story , ’ — although unfortunately , they would be misled if they were to choose irradiated food for that reason . ’
14 As the sound of Ben 's car engine died away , she felt suddenly very alone , the feeling heightened by the knowledge that Jenny and Paul , too , were to leave that morning for Gatwick , to fly off to their holiday destination .
15 His descendants were to have good reason for echoing such sentiments in relation to the behaviour of Henry VIII 's troops in Scotland .
16 In religious terms , these two exilic and post-exilic developments — i.e. the concentration upon ritual purity and the sharp differentiation in male — female social function — were to have far-reaching consequences for women .
17 Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent .
18 If we were to present separate maps for unemployment by sex , the map for females would show southern Italy in a worse light , but female unemployment data are particularly prone to non-comparability because of wider differences between countries in the definitions used .
19 Therefore in such cases , where it is desired that the UCTA not apply , one method is to draft one contract for both goods and services , and not two separate contracts for each element .
20 I quote from its fact-sheet : ‘ The ultimate aim is to provide alternative methods for use in toxicity testing and in drug development , which will be so relevant and reliable that no animal testing will be necessary. ,
21 The Eagle Lodge concept , which is to provide supportive housing for elderly single persons , has proceeded with increasing momemtum throughout 1990 .
22 The aim of an Eagle Lodge is to provide supportive housing for single , elderly ex-Air Force persons , encouraging independence within a caring environment , thereby overcoming the problem of loneliness which affects so many in old age .
23 The aim of an Eagle Lodge is to provide supportive housing for single , elderly ex-Air Force persona , encouraging independence within a caring family environment , thereby overcoming the problems of loneliness which affects so many in old age .
24 The main aim of this project is to provide better models for assessing a country 's creditworthiness and foreign debt-servicing problems than those currently available .
25 NCR Corp is to provide third-party service for Everex Systems Inc personal computers under warranty , in the US , later worldwide ; Everex is now under Chapter 11 protection .
26 Our task is to provide helpful guidelines for better economic planning .
27 So Same 's solution is to provide more force for high-up hitching than for low-down hitching .
28 What Brussels should do is to provide direct support for research students and equipment in the less advantaged areas provided they interact with major European collaborators .
29 Mr Taylor must ensure a sceptical public understand that it is to obtain these securities for their less fortunate brethren that the highly-paid Premier League players have been asked to express a willingness to strike .
30 The Craft Centre at present contains a craft shop , a tearoom and an exhibition devoted to the Harris tweed industry , and a main problem is to find suitable uses for it outside the short tourist season .
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