Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is talk , still unconfirmed but reasonable enough , that Sparc cloners anxious to finally turn their allegiance to profit are pushing for the port . |
| 2 | This terminated in 1940 , but the right to purchase was extended for seven years until 1947 , when Fleetwood requested a further three-year extension , which was opposed by Blackpool . |
| 3 | One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale . |
| 4 | A major celebration for ‘ Maude 's ’ return to service is planned for Sunday , November 8 when the locomotive will haul trains throughout the day , along with up to four other loco 's in steam , followed by a special train for guests , members and contributors to the ‘ Maude ’ appeal fund including a buffet and fireworks display . |
| 5 | What you 'll have to do is to ask for your allocation to be increased . ’ |
| 6 | Now , what we have to do is organize for ourselves a mechanism whereby , for any particular project , we use the procedures that are necessary for that project . |
| 7 | The second thing we need to do is to lobby for the repeal of the unwinding of the safety net . |
| 8 | Now all that 's left to do is wait for Carry On Columbus to hit the cinemas in October . |
| 9 | So all you 've got to do is wait for the Agreement to get signed . |
| 10 | The best thing to do is to apply for further details of any of the courses which interest you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All you have to do is look for your own number er if you if you have hopefully you 've kept a record of the assignments where you 've earned bonus and you can claim it as soon as that number is published . |
| 13 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 14 | ‘ What we wanted to do was identify for each separate office its cash inflow and outflow as a preparatory discipline , if you like , before the demerger . |
| 15 | All I wanted to do was run for my country , to be part of the action . |
| 16 | Then all Kirov had to do was run for cover and wait . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All I had to do was ask for directions . |
| 19 | But to do that would be to risk being enslaved for ever . |
| 20 | Several contracts put out to tender are reviewed for : the degree of competition in house tender faced , and the outcome in respect of total expenditure , the sources of cost savings , and redundancies . |
| 21 | Aubrey 's personality and in particular his approach to command are accounted for reasonably and naturally . |
| 22 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 23 | He may miss out significant features of style which he happens not to have been looking for . |
| 24 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
| 25 | Mr Jones , 55 , said : ‘ I am very surprised to have been selected for this award , but extremely pleased . ’ |
| 26 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 27 | Curiously , most of the rules seem to have been conceived for print media : there are few pieces of TV and radio ‘ folklore ’ of this kind . |
| 28 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 29 | One shuttle tanker , Polikon , was reported to have been hit for the fourth time and written off as a ‘ constructive total loss ’ ( CTL ) . |
| 30 | Although thousands of civilians have been reported extrajudicially executed or ‘ disappeared ’ in the emergency zones during the past decade , no members of the armed forces are known to have been convicted for their part in these violations . |