Example sentences of "which [vb mod] be to " in BNC.

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1 If the garage has a ‘ flat ’ roof , it will have a slight drainage slope , which may be to the side or the rear .
2 Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss .
3 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 .
4 And the angel said unto them , ‘ Fear not , for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people .
5 for behold , I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people .
6 In a developing country , like India , a preference for sons would be expected to lead initially to a reduction in the birth rate , which would be to the country 's advantage ; and before long , the more farsighted parents will realise that in order to have grandchildren , they should select not sons , who may not be able to find wives , but daughters , who will be sought after , and be able to enter into advantageous marriages .
7 After one of early games he was approached by a strange looking character who proposed a meeting ‘ which would be to your advantage , senor ’ .
8 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 :
9 It 's a good plan which would be to our mutual advantage .
10 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 .
11 There can be no doubt that future changes along these lines will continue and pose particular problems , most of which will be to the detriment of the birds of Sussex .
12 William Brautigan outlined the good progress being made by the church book stall , Peter Fitzmaurice reported on social events and Muriel Brautigan gave details as to the use of a £1,500 charitable donation and outlined arrangements for the next Deanery Pilgrimage , which will be to Bath on May 27th .
13 In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’
14 However , the Prime Minister is not capable of obtaining a deal which will be to the benefit of the British people .
15 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 . ’
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