Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 2 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 3 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 4 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 5 | The US KRCA-TV Channel 62 is to use it to enhance its programme distribution , video post-production and satellite links , including connections to local sport and entertainment venues and the San Francisco Satellite Centre , a divisions of Watson Communication Systems Inc is to use it for local connections to its satellite teleports for US and overseas transmissions . |
| 6 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 7 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 8 | If a few more join them , these next few days , who 's to blame you for that ? |
| 9 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 10 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 11 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 12 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 13 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 14 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 15 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |
| 16 | That five was to haunt him for many months afterwards . |