Example sentences of "is [to-vb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response is that in a rapidly growing market ( say 30 per cent growth per annum ) the only way to increase market share is to go for massive expansion of capacity ( say 50 per cent per annum ) . |
| 2 | In Bristol , often the pressure is to go for high status careers . |
| 3 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 4 | It is up to each individual union to deal with this problem , but the obvious right course for all of them is to compensate for broken time — and this included the RFU . |
| 5 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 6 | What we do instead is to look for partial theories that will describe situations in which certain interactions can be ignored or approximated in a simple manner . |
| 7 | It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose . |
| 8 | Taking all such extraneous factors into account , Ms Blackman says her recommendation to first-time buyers is to look for capped rates , noting the five-year cap at 10.65% offered by the Leeds Permanent ( 0532 438181 ) . |
| 9 | With Kuwait 's refinery capacity going up to 664,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 1986 , KPC 's policy is to look for further outlets . |
| 10 | A more satisfactory way of delimiting lexical units is to look for grammatical differences which correlate with differences of meaning . |
| 11 | Gaver 's principle here is to look for plausible extensions of reality . |
| 12 | The best thing to do is to apply for further details of any of the courses which interest you . |
| 13 | On the contrary , it is to yearn for closer unity to be built on firm foundations and to reflect the real desires of a complex patchwork of different nations and of peoples who live in that part of the world geographically known as Europe . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | The tendency is to press for covered shopping malls , but there are many examples of attractive small courtyards and squares that open up behind existing streets and that are busy and popular spaces . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Brenda , from Bridlington , says the £800 compensation offered is ‘ derisory ’ and is to fight for more money . |
| 18 | If , for example , the intervention is to run for six weeks , the parents should stop after that time and then repeat the baseline measurements in the same conditions as before . |
| 19 | The initiative is to run for two months , and will include high profile policing in a bid to reduce thefts of and from cars . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Part of the presenter 's role is to watch for good photo opportunities as they arise spontaneously in the course of events . |
| 22 | Employment is to end for 16 men at Highlands Fabricators at Nigg , on the Cromarty Firth , leaving 820 hourly-paid workers . |
| 23 | The purpose of every Home is to care for elderly people during the last years of their lives . |
| 24 | In that case , the usual procedure is to ask for two items of identification , such as a driving licence , when accepting an order , and then allow people to pay by cheque . |
| 25 | He is to ask for all-party support of the event at next week 's council meeting . |
| 26 | He is to ask for all-party support at next week 's council meeting . |
| 27 | But Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the council Conservatives , has now been in touch with the South African embassy in London to set up a trade visit to the town , and is to ask for all-party support at next week 's council meeting . |
| 28 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Recent studies suggest that ozone depletion is to blame for widespread blindness among sheep in southern Chile , on the edge of the Antarctic ozone hole . |