Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be to " in BNC.

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1 I might be to you but it 's this is going to a parent !
2 It was like Fawlty Towers , I 'd be to the bar
3 I 've still drawn a blank as far as recording is concerned but I will be to my father .
4 ‘ I 'm not sure how much use I can be to you .
5 If the garage has a ‘ flat ’ roof , it will have a slight drainage slope , which may be to the side or the rear .
6 Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss .
7 She suspected that the Bishop and the Archdeacon had invited her to the meeting more to enlist her help as a sleuth than as a source of information of a kind which might be to them , in any case , unwelcome .
8 And the angel said unto them , ‘ Fear not , for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people .
9 for behold , I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people .
10 In a developing country , like India , a preference for sons would be expected to lead initially to a reduction in the birth rate , which would be to the country 's advantage ; and before long , the more farsighted parents will realise that in order to have grandchildren , they should select not sons , who may not be able to find wives , but daughters , who will be sought after , and be able to enter into advantageous marriages .
11 After one of early games he was approached by a strange looking character who proposed a meeting ‘ which would be to your advantage , senor ’ .
12 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 :
13 It 's a good plan which would be to our mutual advantage .
14 Urging the appointment of party leaders with knowledge of each country and their languages Mr Biffen said that in the longer term visits could develop into reciprocal exchange schemes which would be to everyone 's benefit .
15 There can be no doubt that future changes along these lines will continue and pose particular problems , most of which will be to the detriment of the birds of Sussex .
16 William Brautigan outlined the good progress being made by the church book stall , Peter Fitzmaurice reported on social events and Muriel Brautigan gave details as to the use of a £1,500 charitable donation and outlined arrangements for the next Deanery Pilgrimage , which will be to Bath on May 27th .
17 In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’
18 However , the Prime Minister is not capable of obtaining a deal which will be to the benefit of the British people .
19 My vet — an older man who lived out on the Downs — has just retired , so I 'll try both your practices which will be to my advantage , because when one practice is too busy to come out at once then I can call on the other . ’
20 Ah soon you 'll be to your money .
21 This lethal game is often called ‘ last across ’ , the idea being to see how close you can be to a train before it hits you or you can get out of the way .
22 The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent .
23 Even in a socialist country like Tanzania , however committed one may be to the abolition of privilege in society , there is no arguing with the fact that young people with secondary and higher education can expect life to bring them a richer and more interesting experience than it does to the primary school leaver .
24 If the mind is so conceived that its relation to the world can only be a causal one , then to perceive something must be to be causally affected by it .
25 We shall need to be more flexible in the way we handle retirement , and as generous as we can be to what is fortunately a declining proportion of the retired — that is , those who rely entirely on their State pension .
26 A major part of the nurse 's role is therefore to assess how much help a patient requires and what risks there may be to his safety .
27 Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them .
28 By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces .
29 A number of important points emerged from the Vice-President 's speech indicating the creation of more coherent Government attitudes to the press : these concerned its role , the limits there should be to its activities and the relationship it ought to have with the Government .
30 You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve .
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