Example sentences of "[pron] may [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the garage has a ‘ flat ’ roof , it will have a slight drainage slope , which may be to the side or the rear . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 9 | Important as they may be to the birds and trout , they can be very annoying to humans and , although they may not bite , the sheer numbers of midges and blackflies have been known to send birdwatchers — and particularly photographers — into paroxysms of rage and frustration . |
| 10 | Their services may not be essential to the ability of school teachers to combine children with employment ; they may be to business women and barristers , and more so to divorced or single working women . |
| 11 | Although there have been a number of successful experiments in providing advice to farmers at the ‘ grass roots ’ — most notably the Upland Management Scheme in the Lake District — farmers still remain suspicious of environmentalists however sympathetic they may be to environmentalism . |
| 12 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 13 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 14 | For example , if you have the situation where you want to put two occasionally-used machines quite close to one another , it may be to your advantage that their heights are exactly the same so the job can run across both tables . |
| 15 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 16 | However distasteful it may be to some people , this does at least provide a rational explanation for the behaviour of those bystanders , even if it does not excuse them . |
| 17 | A puff it may be to the deposed kings of world rugby , but the Taiwanese are taking the training stint , which will be used as a build-up to September 's Asian tournament , in deadly earnest . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think Hank realizes how devastating it may be to his mother when his book comes out , ’ Isobel went on . |
| 19 | Anathema as it may be to Welsh Rugby Union ears , this was something they realised at Twickenham at least five years ago and we have all seen the felicitous results . |
| 20 | There is no good reason why that traditional understanding should now be abandoned , however inconvenient it may be to some of those who would otherwise like to shelter under the umbrella of the term " democracy " . |
| 21 | ‘ It may be to them , but it is n't to me ; it 's still just a pile of bricks . ’ |
| 22 | I think there 's one advantage in letting the Paymaster know because he deducts tax at source , whereas your second employer may not , and it may be to your advantage to be paying tax |
| 23 | Whatever other reasons may have existed — and however unpleasant it may be to be reminded of it — this is the same reason used in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 24 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 25 | Also it may be to the witnesses that things are different now he is no longer with us . ’ |
| 26 | For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants . |
| 27 | He may be to Ally McCoist what Jimmy Millar was to Ralph Brand , he may possess the aerial threat of a Willie Thornton , a Derek Johnstone , but Hateley contributes skill where those previous Rangers centre-forwards lent mainly bravado . |