Example sentences of "be [to-vb] for [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative , and it might be effective , would be to legislate for two-tier supervisory boards . |
| 2 | Recent pension fund scandals have shown how right Labour has been to call for stronger legal protection . |
| 3 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 4 | Perhaps no one would deny this ; but as each generation of students arrives more defiantly or hopelessly monoglot , as a whole new discipline ( called ‘ Comparative Literature ’ ) has come into being to cater for those exceptional persons who can read more languages than one , the need for a classroom manual to redress this state of affairs becomes ever more urgent . |
| 5 | The Government say that in all this , one of their main aims is to go for greater local accountability , er but this h people can hardly claim to know more about the community than the elected representatives , or more for example about educational or social service activities which can be relevant to police concerns and there are many local government member as enquiries have shown who can claim outside management and financial expertise . |
| 6 | The usual advice is to wait for three menstrual cycles to go by , which is roughly the same as three months . |
| 7 | If the scheme is to provide for any financial assistance this will be detailed here . |
| 8 | Thus the principal task of theories which specifically address modem football hooliganism is to account for these dominant forms of behaviour . |
| 9 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 10 | In his schemata of reproduction Marx suggested that if equilibrium is to subsist for total social production , then there must exist definite proportions between the two departments and proportionality in the exchanges between the two departments . |
| 11 | The artificial football pitch at Middlesbrough 's Southlands Centre is to close for further remedial work from May 27-June 5 . |
| 12 | A safe environment must be provided if the library is to cater for such vulnerable groups as the sight-impaired , the unco-ordinated , and the overactive . |
| 13 | The collaboration between Nicholson and Hellman was to continue for two more pictures . |
| 14 | The tone of the descriptions and conversations of Mr Morgan of Abercorran House and his curiously assorted friends ( Aurelius , Mr Torrance and Mr Stodham ) is cheerfully loving in its recall of the London commons and the Wiltshire and Welsh countryside upon which Edward was to draw for much inner satisfaction throughout his adult life . |
| 15 | In reality , Yusuf was not even present and El Cid was to live for several more years . |
| 16 | Well , she was to dance for another twenty years . |
| 17 | Similarly , he claims that a powerful test in China in May was to blame for various natural disasters in Central Asia and an earthquake in California . |
| 18 | Prior to publication of the study , Rechem 's position had been that there was no proof that it was to blame for any toxic contamination outside the plant . |