Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] to [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 2 | It needed only one irascible minister to take umbrage at some fancied slight or misdemeanour for there to be trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 4 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 5 | It 's a par three and I 'm assured that it measures more than the hundred and forty yards required for us to be par three . |
| 6 | You only have to show that this act works for there to be takers everywhere . |