Example sentences of "to [be] beneficial to " in BNC.

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1 Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers .
2 This was confirmed also in a case involving Ewbank J. in Coventry City Council V T ( 1986 ) ELR 299 ‘ that access had to be shown to be beneficial to the child ’ .
3 On the contrary , the maintenance of meaningful links with the birth family appear to be beneficial to children , to their sense of identity and self esteem and for gaining a better understanding of their genealogical background and adoption circumstances .
4 The opening of the Aswan Dam in 1970 was also initially considered to be beneficial to Egypt 's agricultural productivity , as its capacity to control the Nile 's sometimes erratic flow facilitated the conversion of all arable land to perennial cropping .
5 The requirements of such a system may lead to a number of outcomes , some of which are unlikely to be beneficial to the child .
6 He pointed to the necessity of a reciprocal relationship , one that had ultimately to be beneficial to all participants , and not merely based upon value money exchanges but one that entailed an exchange of real use-values .
7 The full force of teachers ' professionalism will need to be put behind the national curriculum and assessment if both are to be beneficial to pupil and other ‘ customers ’ of the education service .
8 They dismay the big auctioneers , such as Jacques Tajan of Ader-Tajan , and the modern paintings specialist Guy Loudmer , who believe competition from foreign countries not only to be beneficial to native companies of their importance , but also essential for Paris 's development as an art market .
9 This was an attempt to retain some of the advantages of the gold standard , since stable rates of exchange were thought to be beneficial to the conduct of trade and other international transactions , and yet adjustments in the exchange rate were deemed desirable for a country facing a permanent payments imbalance .
10 We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end .
11 If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country .
12 In Pelkmans and Winters ( 1988 ) , and Padoa-Schioppa ( 1987 ) , there is discussion of the importance of appropriate institutional and legal frameworks in the areas of competition , regional , social , and technology policies if the European market is to be beneficial to all parties .
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