Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb mod] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |