Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Prime Minister is not capable of obtaining a deal which will be to the benefit of the British people . |
| 2 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 3 | Perhaps unnerved by the suddenness of his summons to the Prime Minister and the vigour of Palmerston 's attack , Scott felt that his case had to be presented in a ‘ more consecutive manner ’ , and on 23rd July , 1859 , he wrote a long letter to Palmerston explaining how much effort he had put into the design and what a loss it would be to the country if it was not adopted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's a good plan which would be to our mutual advantage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But we 'll manage something — he 's going to write — I 've given him your address , Bina — when you get a letter from Spain it 'll be to me from him — you will hide them from your parents , wo n't you ? |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | He was magnificent , but she must n't let the surge of unexpected excitement running through her blind her to the danger he could be to Dana . |
| 11 | What a deprivation it would be to be blind ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not sure how much use I can be to you . |
| 13 | The paper will then focus on records in the scientific arena , as an example , to illustrate what impact there could be to historical research because of their electronic nature . |
| 14 | When he came back he looked very grave and said , " Great king , I know well what sorry news it will be to you , but the cause of your sickness is those very lettuces by which you set such store . " |
| 15 | No I , I just wondered what use it would be to me . |
| 16 | You have a voice , though what use it will be to you I do n't know . |
| 17 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice . |
| 20 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 21 | In Japan it will be to the particular company , while in the Arab world it is the family which is the key to social , business and over-arching structures . |
| 22 | Burgess did n't much like leaving whatever risk there might be to the Inspector , but he did as he was told . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 25 | If a distribution to shareholders was classed as a form of spending by a company , such payments would be taxed as now , leaving the undistributed profits to accumulate free of tax ; what an encouragement it would be to foreign manufacturers to start business here , with all the advantages to us of new jobs created and a resulting trade improvement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ And Lady Greensleeves thou wilt be to me . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | On the contrary : once again it is hard to see what democratic objection there can be to the principle of allowing the people themselves to decide on major issues of principle . |