Example sentences of "[be] to [art] advantage " in BNC.
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| 1 | … such an arrangement would be to the advantage of the WEA , provided that the partnership in the Joint Committee is genuine and that the WEA retains and exercises the right of providing its own classes as may seem appropriate . |
| 2 | But then , as Blackstone pointed out , the opinion gained ground that it would be to the advantage of trade , and of creditors in general , if debtors outside the scope of the bankruptcy laws who were on the point of insolvency could also surrender their property for the benefit of their creditors , and in return be protected from legal process . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that it would be to the advantage of school children if they could find out what happens in the countryside . |
| 5 | This , together with the dearth of negotiated work resulted in a declining turnover in 1992 but there is no doubt that our policy of not buying work to satisfy turnover will be to the advantage of the business and its people in the long term . |
| 6 | Ultimately we are campaigning to be allowed to be ourselves , with all out differences and similarities , and such an aim can only be to the advantage of us all . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | The ‘ peak ’ organizations of business and labour are granted a special consultative status in return for their co-operation ( Schmitter 1979 ) Some corporatists maintain that within a capitalist economy such negotiations must be to the advantage of monopoly capital , since labour forgoes its local , workplace autonomy in favour of its corporate leadership . |
| 9 | Mr Curry said : ‘ A better balance on the taxation between wine , beer and spirits within the EC would be to the advantage of the UK and we are supporting that approach . ’ |
| 10 | This , of course , can be to the advantage of those who do take the subject . |
| 11 | The emphasis here is rather less upon the calculation of personal advantage , and rather more on the kin group as a co-operative unit , taking collective decisions which are to the advantage of all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’ |
| 14 | they are to the advantage of the least well off ; i.e. changes that improve the position of the least well off are to be recommended ( this is the so-called maximin rule , maximizing the position of the minimum welfare individual ) , and |
| 15 | provided widespread concessions for small distilleries and special deals for certain spirits producers , none of these being to the advantage of Scotch . |
| 16 | All social primary goods — liberty and opportunity , income and wealth , and the basis of self respect — are to be distributed equally unless an unequal distribution of any or all of these goods is to the advantage of the least favoured . |
| 17 | pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges . |
| 18 | The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | This was to the advantage of the young radicals ; like the leftists in the NILP , they were not hampered by tradition and did not have to placate their seniors before or after embracing heresy . |
| 20 | The theory was rounded off by the idea that the structure and content of the curriculum as practised in any school whatever , formal or free-form was to the advantage of those capable of indefinite linguistic and conceptual elaboration . |
| 21 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |