Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [vb mod] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not be known now to many at Queen 's Park but that would be to our impoverishment . |
| 2 | But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |