Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 2 | An avenue open to persons aggrieved , who feel they have suffered injustice because of maladministration is to ask for their complaints to be looked into by either the Local Commissioner or the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 3 | Easy ways to detect this kind of outfit are to ask for popular , but not standard , typefaces or to suggest that the material will be coming on IBM format disk . |
| 4 | The only remedy available to the holders of the subordinated debt in the event of default is to petition for the winding up of the company . |
| 5 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 6 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 7 | But , what happens if , for example , on day 20 , rates of interest were to rise for reasons we need not be concerned with here ? |
| 8 | Common Fallacies Show why the following statements are incorrect : ( a ) The only reason for taxation is to provide for shirkers by penalizing people who do an honest day 's work . |
| 9 | To argue always for unfudgeability is to argue for form over substance with all the waste of capital that entails . |
| 10 | So Ann Richards 's first act as governor was to call for the adoption of an emergency ethics law ‘ with some teeth in it . ’ |
| 11 | The women go out to work in the same way as other women , but know that their main priority in life is to care for their families . |
| 12 | One standard way of establishing the degree of discrimination in employment is to arrange for equally qualified black and white workers to apply for the same job . |
| 13 | Roy Green , software field operations manager for the British firm , Systime , believes that India 's best bet for expansion is to go for what is called systems software : programs that run the computers themselves . |
| 14 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 15 | In the end it was accepted that this happened , but the only explanation offered was that the blasting in the nearby quarry for lime was to blame for the movement which suggested settlement . |