Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously Daglish has being trying to buy Batt 's for a while after failing to sign Keane . |
| 2 | I would like to see agenda 's for these meetings public available I 'd like to see some commercial experience by a vote of general manager and their trustee 's . |
| 3 | The key for farmers to do business is for them to deliver assured quality ; there is then a premium at the end of the line and no need to form Continental style co-ops , the minister adds . |
| 4 | The way to eradicate threadworms is for the whole family ( apart , possibly , from pregnant mums ) to take de-worming treatment , either an over-the-counter medication or the rather more effective prescribed preparation from your doctor . |
| 5 | To maximise profits is for management not an optional exercise or a work of supererogation : it is management 's basic duty . |
| 6 | What it is in general for a thing a to have the power to produce b is for it to be true that an individual property or properties of a , together with other things , will constitute a causal circumstance for b . |
| 7 | Given our account of causal circumstances , that is fundamentally to say , in line with the independent conditional ( 5 ) set out in Section I .3 and mentioned at the beginning of this section , that for a to have the power to produce b is for roughly this to be true : if A & C , even if X , still B — where C asserts the existence of other conditions or events . |