Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Your initial approach should be to your own local councillor(s) ( those serving on the Leisure and Amenities Committee are particularly useful ) . |
| 3 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
| 4 | Nor did he dismiss it outright , though he said that my first duty should be to my family , with which of course I concurred . |
| 5 | ‘ That Lehzen handed over to the nation a potentially great queen must be to her credit ’ ( Longford ) . |
| 6 | Further to Micheal Meacher 's article on the censorship of whistleblower ( ‘ Shut up or get out ’ , 1 May ) , nurses , midwives and health visitors are clearly enjoined by their regulatory body , the United Kingdom Central Council ( UKCC ) , that their first loyalty must be to their patients or clients . |
| 7 | While it might be to your advantage to do so at the earliest opportunity , there is nevertheless no legal urgency for you to make the journey other than at your convenience . |
| 8 | Ah soon you 'll be to your money . |
| 9 | And she capitalized on this , she saw where it could be to her advantage to be perceived as a celluloid creation . |
| 10 | Even if you are drawn against an élite performer who has a great deal of experience , the fact that you may be younger , hungrier , fitter could be to your advantage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Bless our work bless us that all we do and say may be to your glory and for the sake of your kingdom guide us |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think Hank realizes how devastating it may be to his mother when his book comes out , ’ Isobel went on . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We ask that through Your wisdom , Alan may be to his new church : |
| 18 | The Israelis must , in their hearts , know this , and it would be to their everlasting credit to acknowledge it . |
| 19 | Yet they can only survive in warm or temperate climes , and it would be to their advantage to grow bigger . |
| 20 | It was not clear whether such moves would be to their benefit . |
| 21 | The colleges themselves , of course , took part in these processes often with some trepidation and nervousness , not knowing how well the CNAA would understand them as institutions or how sympathetic it would be to their approach to teacher education . |
| 22 | The dance would be to her tune . |
| 23 | The pyre would be to her right . |
| 24 | The SNP thought that if the ‘ independence-union ’ alternative was stressed , the crumbling of British Labour support would be to its benefit . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 … |
| 26 | She would not be known now to many at Queen 's Park but that would be to our impoverishment . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | My proposition , I assure you , would be to our mutual benefit . ’ |
| 29 | It 's a good plan which would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 30 | To form one good mixed practice would be to our mutual advantage . |