Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 2 | Baker-Finch had had an unlucky start by spinning back into the burn at the 1st , and when I checked the leaderboard we were a stroke behind Watson with Langer , so there was all to play for . |
| 3 | The ‘ great windy parlour ’ at the front of the building was soon to become for Coleridge a place in which he felt more at home than in his own tiny cottage , and it was there that he and Poole were later to spend long sociable hours with the Wordsworths , Charles Lamb , Hazlitt and others . |
| 4 | However , sections of the press saw this as an attempt to suppress the investigation 's key finding : that police insensitivity and mismanagement was largely to blame for the evening 's confrontation ( cf. |
| 5 | I always thought he was largely to blame for the relegation in 1982 . |
| 6 | Pollution was directly to blame for a decline in life expectancy from 70.4 years in 1964 to 69.3 years in 1990 , Yablokov claimed , adding that in some particularly polluted areas it had fallen to as low as 44 years . |
| 7 | The conversation ended the official programme of the Leeds Congress , but there was more to come for a party of about forty participants , including the President and Professor Kerney and his wife , for whom an excursion into Wensleydale by train and horse drawn wagonettes had been organised . |
| 8 | No , the woman was clearly to blame for everything . |
| 9 | Bristol no more needed a direct link with Hamburg than Hull needed one with Ireland , while London could , as Jackson has put it , " perform for Britain the entrepot functions which Britain was later to perform for Europe " . |
| 10 | The slump in household saving , from 14% of disposable income in 1980 to just 5% last year , was partly to blame for the rise in inflation that now plagues the government . |
| 11 | THE Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( Imro ) has admitted it was partly to blame for allowing the Maxwell pension fraud to happen and that it was ‘ thumped ’ for its supervision of the Maxwell fund managers by the parliamentary select committee on social security . |
| 12 | In September , Marshall admitted that the CEGB was partly to blame for acidification of Scandinavia . |
| 13 | In common with many other Latin American countries , it was the weakness of technical and administrative institutions in charge of peasant agriculture that was partly to blame for the failure of a rural development policy . |
| 14 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 15 | Axel shuddered , then continued , ‘ Well , he was partly to blame for my downfall . ’ |
| 16 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 17 | There are still problems with central defence as Wetherall was partly to blame for the goals . |
| 18 | The industrial tribunal at Middlesbrough has found that David Heselton , 29 , of Rosedale Close , Whitby was partly to blame for his sacking last June . |
| 19 | Diego Maradona was partly to blame for the brawl between Sevilla and Cadiz players at the end of Sunday 's Spanish league match , according to police . |
| 20 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 21 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |
| 22 | And when Merrill explained to him that she was here to pay for Elise 's Shaker-style chest Luke Travis 's reaction might betray something . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't expect him to pull out because the ball was there to go for . ’ |
| 24 | And , of course , I was n't present as a spectator , I was there to sit for Pradier . |
| 25 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 26 | Oh no … what on earth was there to cry for ? |
| 27 | In earlier chapters we discussed the possibility that poor acoustic-phonetic processing was primarily to blame for delays or errors in automatic speech recognition . |
| 28 | However , the best was yet to come for The Committee lost no fans when a decent third behind Zeta 's Lad in the Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park in January before an equally encouraging third behind Wee Madge at Down Royal . |
| 29 | I was never to discover for what misdemeanour Félix Vaugirard had been penalized . |