Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union was not opposed to devolving school budgets , he argued , but it should be to an extent decided by each local authority . |
| 2 | The timing of such an arrangement would be crucial if adverse American reaction was to be avoided ; it was believed that the first approaches should be to the Dominions , followed by the USA , USSR , and China , culminating in a full international conference . |
| 3 | Its responsibility should be to the administration of the amateur game , the clubs , the schools , the counties , indoor facilities , to ensure maximum participation and enjoyment on a mass scale throughout the country . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 6 | Many other members of the Organising Committee felt , however , that the devolution of power in generation should be to the smaller areas covered by the fourteen Area Boards . |
| 7 | As H. M. Colvin has observed ‘ what Reims and St Denis were to the house of Capet , Westminster should be to the house of Plantagenet ’ . |
| 8 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 9 | It is a matter of total indifference to me , as it should be to the hon. Member for Swansea , East ( Mr. Anderson ) . |
| 10 | It had made its participation conditional on the undertaking that at least 60 per cent of the bank 's total lending should be to the private sector , with no more than 40 per cent for infrastructure projects . |
| 11 | There is no appeal from the decision of a county court registrar to the county court judge ; the appeal must be to a single judge -of the High Court ( Re a Debtor ( No 39 of 1974 ) ( 1977 ) 3 All ER489 ) . |
| 12 | Their conclusion was that most of the road signs in such studies are in fact initially detected and that differences found between signs and the poor overall performance in the Johansson and Rumar study must be to a large extent a memory effect . |
| 13 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 14 | He likes the blend of the two jobs , the one selfish because successful sportsmen must be to a greater or lesser degree , the other caring . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ A clinician 's first duty must be to the patient , ’ said one . |
| 17 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 18 | It must be to the south , across Teviot , for the Tweed , to the north , was the greater river , with no fords nor bridges available for a considerable distance upstream ; and downstream , at Kelso , the Scots could be trapped too easily . |
| 19 | ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other . |
| 20 | Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf . |
| 21 | Since the aim of adoption must always be to provide a child without parents with an environment which will foster normal development , the commitment must be to the child , not to the parents or to the agency . |
| 22 | Although they are , they must be to the people concerned but I mean , a pet 's usually a dog , cat or bird is n't it ? |
| 23 | In the view of the Director of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , there is an iron curtain separating public sector higher education in Wales from the University of Wales whose existence must be to the detriment of the young people of Wales . |
| 24 | In the case of a company without share capital the return will give no particulars of the members ; to ascertain that , resort must be to the company . |
| 25 | This contrasts with the racial hatred offence , where the distribution must be to the public or a section of the public . |
| 26 | The ‘ peak ’ organizations of business and labour are granted a special consultative status in return for their co-operation ( Schmitter 1979 ) Some corporatists maintain that within a capitalist economy such negotiations must be to the advantage of monopoly capital , since labour forgoes its local , workplace autonomy in favour of its corporate leadership . |
| 27 | The application must be to the district judge if made by him ( Ord 29 , r 3(2) ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Whatever our personal reactions might be to a production , that is the only real test . |
| 30 | The one I have chosen is this — brief , informal letters , written from time to time as our work proceeds , in a plain , straightforward style , as it might be to a friend . |