Example sentences of "[be] to the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A positive interaction with these characteristics can only be to the benefit of artists and their followers alike . |
| 2 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 3 | no amendment which would be to the advantage of participants may be made to the following without the prior consent of the Company in General Meeting : |
| 4 | He is blind to the independent studies that have been carried out on that programme , such as that by Professor Snower of Birkbeck college , which demonstrates clearly and beyond doubt how damaging those proposals would be to the creation of jobs in this country . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you been to the Skein of Geese since you took Clare there last year ? ’ |
| 6 | One major part of the ongoing work of the Working Party is to discover what opportunities are being provided by a range of different agencies and what your attitudes are to the provision of opportunities for young people . |
| 7 | In normal circumstances , however , tenders are to the advantage of vendors and are the least satisfactory method of purchase from the purchaser 's point of view . |
| 8 | P35 — At the end of the financial year the employer has to complete this return and send it with the completed P11 's to the Collector of Taxes . |
| 9 | For Labour they want more people employed and that 's to the detriment of taxes and inflation . |
| 10 | In both cases the objection is to the presentation of expressions in English as if they were normal uses of English . |
| 11 | However , it was argued that , if a foreign predator wishes to place a greater value on a British company than the stock market does , then that is to the benefit of shareholders . |
| 12 | No doubt it is to the benefit of patients , but it is by no means to the benefit of residents . |
| 13 | Like the Law Society it can use the genuine argument that its members are highly qualified and governed by a strict code of ethics which ultimately is to the benefit of clients . |
| 14 | It is to the elaboration of rules that we direct our attention in the next chapter . |
| 15 | Instead , for Bentham , there were only interests and , because the interests of the majority had to prevail , Himmelfarb noted : " The principle of the greatest happiness was as inimical to the idea of liberty as it was to the idea of rights . " |