Example sentences of "be for [det] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My orders are for this skeleton to be taken to the Natural History Museum in London , where scientific tests will reveal more about its true nature . |
| 2 | ‘ One option would be for all schemes to be channelled through a single agency , so land managers only had one port of call for payments , ’ said the commission . |
| 3 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 4 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 5 | The City and the Grassroots argued , on the other hand , that successful urban social movements must confront state domination ( the tendency being for such domination to be centralised and tied up with the interests of monopoly capital ) and recognise the nature of local culture and experience . |
| 6 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 7 | I shall be dealing more fully with the use of the library in the next chapter , but I can not stress too strongly how important it is for all researchers to be knowledgeable about bibliographical sources and , sadly , how few social science undergraduates are actually taught the necessary skills . |
| 8 | Christians believe that God 's wish is for all people to be complete in body , mind and spirit . |
| 9 | All that is required now is for each tip to be lifted in turn from the worktop , and the strong tape folded over to form a complete pocket at each corner . |
| 10 | probably the sensible course is for most books to be ordered sight unseen , with the occasional title requested ‘ on approval ’ when it is thought that seeing the book would be helpful . |
| 11 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 12 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |