Example sentences of "be [to-vb] for [det] [noun] [prep] " 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 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 3 | Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness . |