Example sentences of "be to our " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From the point of view of nationalist Ireland — a continuation of Maggie Thatcher in power , for a limited period of time , would be to our advantage … |
| 2 | Otherwise our credit society could easily go sour on us , with repercussions for the country 's industry and commerce which would not be to our benefit . |
| 3 | She would not be known now to many at Queen 's Park but that would be to our impoverishment . |
| 4 | ‘ The last four home games are all against good footballing sides — Aston Villa , Liverpool , Manchester United and Leeds — and I think that will be to our advantage . ’ |
| 5 | Belief , in this sense , facilitates a more abstract acceptance of conformity ; it leads us to conform in the absence of immediate personal advantage from doing so ( or even where it would be to our advantage not to do so ) . |
| 6 | My proposition , I assure you , would be to our mutual benefit . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a good plan which would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 8 | To form one good mixed practice would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 9 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 10 | ‘ We have been so sensible , fair and reasonable with Lovell Homes that it 's probably been to our detriment . |
| 11 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 12 | Whilst my message this time has mainly been to our Service team , we all have a part to play in improving the quality of our business . |
| 13 | I 've been to our Arthur 's today . |
| 14 | Send us your photo and tell us how similar you are to our average reader . |
| 15 | It is the problem of talking in our own terms about systems based on other rationales than our own , adapted as these terms are to our own system . |
| 16 | There is no reason to suppose we will be any better , in the long run , at demonstrating respect towards our partner than we are to our parents and relatives . |
| 17 | Only you knew how crucial they were to our plans . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Here 's to our first drink together , ’ said Christopher . |
| 19 | Moreover , my colleague Christine d'Andlau-Hombourg is French and multilingual which will also help to introduce Colnaghi 's to our Continental clients . |
| 20 | Erm I 'm not so sure that in some cases er it , it 's to our members benefit . |
| 21 | ‘ We think as you 're out o ’ pocket enough , what wi' buyin' the timber , an' it 's to our advantage , ’ a carpenter explained — the man who had been cheated by the coal merchant . |
| 22 | ‘ I accused Guy of selling off Chester 's to our rivals , but it appears he was planning the opposite … ’ |
| 23 | We must allow and support the ethnic rights of local people to use their traditional resources , however distasteful it is to our urban and Western prejudices . |
| 24 | Cigarette smoking may prove yet to be as anachronistic to twenty-first century citizens as snuff-taking is to our own age . |
| 25 | As husbands and wives , we recognise that our first and most important ministry is to our partner , closely followed by our children . |
| 26 | Consequently God is more committed to our character than he is to our comfort . |
| 27 | Sparcsystems builder Aries Technology Inc , Fremont , California , is promising what is to our knowledge , the first system implementation of Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc for delivery in April . |
| 28 | It is to our benefit , as it is to everyone else 's , that some measure of perspective should be restored . |
| 29 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 30 | This distribution resembles a CpG island [ 23 ] and is to our knowledge an unusual high CpG density in a coding region of a human cDNA . |