Example sentences of "be [to-vb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the conference will be to do for this junction of Europe and Asia what the Helsinki conference in 1975 did for the rest of Europe . |
| 2 | If experience shows them to be wrong , as proved by hard evidence of a growing mountain of unmet need , their only honest course will be to fight for more resources and resign if unsuccessful . |
| 3 | Can I ask you who you would think would be to blame for that accident ? |
| 4 | When I arrive outside the refuge where I am to stay for several weeks ; it is a house with no name . |
| 5 | In the meanwhile , England and her king were to live for many years on the reputation won on that autumn day . |
| 6 | Quite a few prominent people were to pay for that series defeat and it must have been a cruel disappointment for Mains that he was among those replaced . |
| 7 | Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries . |
| 8 | The left-wing response is to press for more money to improve these services , make them more relevant to public needs ; the right-wing response is to privatize further — and if the latter is the response you favour , then you have a wonderful excuse for withholding taxes : ’ Why should I pay for services I do n't use ? ’ |
| 9 | Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time . |
| 10 | Brenda , from Bridlington , says the £800 compensation offered is ‘ derisory ’ and is to fight for more money . |
| 11 | One of the main goals of governmental authority , which is lexically prior to any other , is to ensure for all persons an equal ability to pursue in their lives and promote in their societies any ideal of the good of their choosing . |
| 12 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |
| 13 | Adopting as a precedent the order made by this Board in Baksh v. The Queen [ 1958 ] A.C. 167 , 172 , their Lordships consider that this is a case in which the right course is to rely for that purpose on the judicial discretion and experience of the court in Jamaica . |
| 14 | The effect of the new subsection is to cater for this problem by limiting the amount of the capital sum which can be brought into charge to income tax upon the settlor where a loan is repaid . |
| 15 | Years of drought and sparks from poorly maintained electricity cables are to blame for some fires , but many have been started by arsonists . |
| 16 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 17 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 18 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 19 | ( He was to apologise for this braggadocio two years later . ) |
| 20 | This new phase , following on the day of judgement , was to last for all eternity . |
| 21 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 22 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 23 | If Hunt 's account is correct , his identification of the voice based upon years of listening to Joyce 's street-corner oratory , then the blackest irony of Lord Haw-Haw 's career was to die for such rubbish as this . |
| 24 | But meanwhile , who was to pay for this room ? |
| 25 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 26 | He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness . |