Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What a deprivation it would be to be blind ! |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not sure how much use I can be to you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | No I , I just wondered what use it would be to me . |
| 14 | You have a voice , though what use it will be to you I do n't know . |
| 15 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Burgess did n't much like leaving whatever risk there might be to the Inspector , but he did as he was told . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 24 | That in itself emphasised what value he can be to United — his sheer danger and menace forces the opposition to follow him , which inevitably creates space for others . |