Example sentences of "be [to-vb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the conference will be to do for this junction of Europe and Asia what the Helsinki conference in 1975 did for the rest of Europe . |
| 2 | Can I ask you who you would think would be to blame for that accident ? |
| 3 | Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries . |
| 4 | The left-wing response is to press for more money to improve these services , make them more relevant to public needs ; the right-wing response is to privatize further — and if the latter is the response you favour , then you have a wonderful excuse for withholding taxes : ’ Why should I pay for services I do n't use ? ’ |
| 5 | Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time . |
| 6 | Brenda , from Bridlington , says the £800 compensation offered is ‘ derisory ’ and is to fight for more money . |
| 7 | Adopting as a precedent the order made by this Board in Baksh v. The Queen [ 1958 ] A.C. 167 , 172 , their Lordships consider that this is a case in which the right course is to rely for that purpose on the judicial discretion and experience of the court in Jamaica . |
| 8 | The effect of the new subsection is to cater for this problem by limiting the amount of the capital sum which can be brought into charge to income tax upon the settlor where a loan is repaid . |
| 9 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 10 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 11 | ( He was to apologise for this braggadocio two years later . ) |
| 12 | This new phase , following on the day of judgement , was to last for all eternity . |
| 13 | If Hunt 's account is correct , his identification of the voice based upon years of listening to Joyce 's street-corner oratory , then the blackest irony of Lord Haw-Haw 's career was to die for such rubbish as this . |
| 14 | But meanwhile , who was to pay for this room ? |
| 15 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 16 | He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness . |