Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work may be done that may be to no avail . |
| 2 | I 've got a new car and it 's already got 23,000 on the clock , and three-quarters of that must be to the club . ’ |
| 3 | The overall emphasis on cost and efficiency in the reformed National Health Service is likely to increase pressures for further reducing the length of hospital stays , and once again this may be to the detriment of older patients . |
| 4 | The only way Masefield can make this credible is to present her as a kind of child-bride , a happy innocent ; necessary as this may be to both the theme and the plot of the book , it does not allow her to develop beyond the limits of a type-character . |
| 5 | The court has no power to order a medical or psychiatric examination of a parent no matter how relevant this may be to the proceedings . |
| 6 | Because the chances are that because you know more about the subject than the general reporter , to whom — this may be to you the most important part of the day , most important story of your day , to him it might be only one of four , five or six that they 're doing . |
| 7 | Local transport agencies should be asked to consider changes in timetabling or re-routing where this might be to the benefit of staff . |
| 8 | This could be to the club 's advantage in the long-run , however , because with supporters at a loose end on Saturdays , they have an ideal opportunity to visit the ‘ old home ’ and Mr Singh 's new megastore . |
| 9 | But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life . |
| 10 | The most practical means of achieving this would be to partially construct the wall panels on the ground with the uprights and horizontals pegged together ; the wattling would then be inserted and finally the wall plate . |
| 11 | One way to determine this would be to old an ordinary ruler at arms length and note how many millimetres the width of an object appears to occupy . |
| 12 | But this will be to no avail if the choreographer is attempting to tell a story and does not have expert advice from musicians of the calibre of Edwin Evans , Constant Lambert and John Lanchbery . |
| 13 | And , because 400 years of Christianity have n't entirely obliterated caste , this will be to a Christian of Brahmin stock . |
| 14 | I think that 'll be to . |
| 15 | He must make decisions about what was historically important , not about , let us say , what was theologically or aesthetically important , significant though that might be to a believer or an artist . |
| 16 | This rule can not effectively be pursued if strict mens rea principles are applied , however appropriate these may be to other areas of the criminal law . |
| 17 | These might be to : ‘ go swimming for thirty minutes after work once a week ’ , ‘ use the stairs rather than the lift ’ , ‘ walk to the restaurant instead of driving ’ . |
| 18 | That shall be to you better than light |
| 19 | She would not be known now to many at Queen 's Park but that would be to our impoverishment . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't deny him the right to use whatever symbols he wants as an artist , but as a friend I was disappointed that he knew how inflammatory that would be to a Madness audience . |
| 21 | well maybe that would be to English |
| 22 | that would be to English law questions which we 're certain of interest today |
| 23 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 24 | And his aim in doing that would be to be res , fully restore all that had been his brother 's , for his brother 's family . |
| 25 | That will be to you better than a light and safer than a known way ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |