Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They need either to win by more than 50 points or rely on Darlington RA beating Bishop Auckland if they are to pip Bishops for the third promotion place from Durham and Northumberland Division One . |
| 2 | The main tasks of such an authority would be to issue contracts for the performance of particular tasks coupled with supervisory and inspection to ensure that they were adequately performed . |
| 3 | I have just been to get tickets for the Arsenal game . |
| 4 | It was said in Parliament that ‘ The courts were to become agencies for the rescue as well as the punishment of children . ’ |
| 5 | Friends of Elizabeth Patterson have contributed handsomely to the Fund in her memory , one object of which is to provide books for the Library on the History of Science . |
| 6 | The main aim of this chapter is to provide guidelines for the introduction of a microcomputer into the school library or the extension of microcomputer work involving microcomputers in the school library and in the classroom . |
| 7 | The objective is to provide facilities for the investigation and recording of archaeological remains prior to development . |
| 8 | The two legal reasons were that full adherence would require greater changes in English law than could be recommended , and that the Convention was concerned with service via official channels , whereas ‘ the great need is to obtain facilities for the use of less official channels ’ . |
| 9 | And , it just shows you how easy it is to leave signs for the thief to tell him that we 're out . |
| 10 | The show is to raise funds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital . |
| 11 | The reason given for selling is to raise funds for the restoration of the Rosebery seat , Dalmeny House , near Edinburgh , where the painting was on show to the public until a year ago . |
| 12 | The challenge , specifically , is to raise funds for the Association in adventures , novel and unusual ways . |
| 13 | Other attractions at the sale , which is to raise funds for the Children 's Society , include a raffle and a painting competition for children . |
| 14 | Our objective is to improve models for the prediction of climate change by tests against palaeoclimate data . |
| 15 | The preliminary step as usual is to label columns for the data they are going to contain . |
| 16 | The Mass offered was to include prayers for the ‘ happy state and safety ’ of their Majesties Philip and Mary , of George and John Dakyn and other benefactors of John Dakyn and the hospital during their lives , and for the repose of their souls after death . |
| 17 | The emphasis was on action and results rather than the collection of pages of analysis — the report produced by the scrutiny team was to include recommendations for the minister to act on . |
| 18 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 19 | The Directive 's objective was to coordinate conditions for the admission of securities to official Stock Exchange listing , with the aim of establishing a common market in securities . |
| 20 | The policy of the defendant was to fix rents for the houses as a whole at an aggregate sum necessary to balance the cost of the loan capital and repairs ; there was no differential applied whereby tenants paid rent according to their means . |
| 21 | Although the proposal reportedly received widespread support from within the West German political parties , the official NATO reaction to the idea , contained in a statement of Jan. 8 , was to reject suggestions for the " creation of special zones ' as distinct from an overall CFE treaty . |
| 22 | The desperate need for more golf courses in the UK has already become a hot potato within the sport , but Keith Wright , Secretary of the English Golf Union , added fuel to the fire recently by claiming the way to satisfy the golf boom was to build courses for the average 18 handicap golfer . |
| 23 | Another change , which was to have implications for the course of British town planning , lay in the shifts of economic fortune between regions . |
| 24 | One response to this and the funding crisis in the early 1980s was to introduce charges for the home help service , up to a weekly maximum , which varied from authority to authority , but was in the region of £2 . |