Example sentences of "[verb] be [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 2 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 3 | Their response has been to aim for legislative repeal or reform . |
| 4 | Recent pension fund scandals have shown how right Labour has been to call for stronger legal protection . |
| 5 | Perhaps Christianity has been to blame for not providing manly worship and interests and fellowship . |
| 6 | Their main response has been to campaign for fairer representation of women among psychologists . |
| 7 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
| 8 | The method adopted was to canvass for capital donations that could then be invested to bring in a regular income , and both Balfour and Law were used to raise the wind . |
| 9 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 10 | So , the two golden rules when buying are to go for quality and buy the largest you can afford . |
| 11 | What you 'll have to do is to ask for your allocation to be increased . ’ |
| 12 | The second thing we need to do is to lobby for the repeal of the unwinding of the safety net . |
| 13 | The best thing to do is to apply for further details of any of the courses which interest you . |
| 14 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 15 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 16 | The work , work something something scheme and and they , they 'd refurbish it , all th th that we had to do was to pay for the materials , they provided the labour . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the educational background of many radio staff may well have been to blame for the overly formal tone of many programmes , which frequently caused them to sound stilted and unnatural . |
| 18 | The form this took was to call for a jihad , or holy war , against the US forces and the overthrow of Saudi King Fahd and President Mubarak of Egypt . |
| 19 | Once you 've done that what we actually do is to look for for sub-patterns in those tuples . |
| 20 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 21 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 22 | Their purpose in coming here had been to intercede for the soul of Colonel Fergusson . |
| 23 | The British position had been to press for intergovernmental co-operation on foreign , security and judicial matters ( outside the European Community as such ) and to emphasise the deepening of the democracy of the national parliaments of the Member States rather than of the European Parliament itself . |
| 24 | The main thrust of the council 's efforts had been to lobby for new housing , improve neighbourhood services and strengthen neighbourhood rapport . |
| 25 | My plan had been to climb for hundreds of beautiful feet on one of Lakeland 's fine mountain crags with one of Lakeland 's fine mountain climbers , but it did n't happen . |
| 26 | They all got into the train , though Dean 's idea had been to head for Epping , but it was as well to be on the safe side . |
| 27 | The only solution I had was to pay for the guy , bring the piece into my own workshop and re-do the top completely . |
| 28 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 29 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |