Example sentences of "this [vb mod] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall emphasis on cost and efficiency in the reformed National Health Service is likely to increase pressures for further reducing the length of hospital stays , and once again this may be to the detriment of older patients . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The court has no power to order a medical or psychiatric examination of a parent no matter how relevant this may be to the proceedings . |
| 4 | Because the chances are that because you know more about the subject than the general reporter , to whom — this may be to you the most important part of the day , most important story of your day , to him it might be only one of four , five or six that they 're doing . |
| 5 | Local transport agencies should be asked to consider changes in timetabling or re-routing where this might be to the benefit of staff . |
| 6 | This could be to the club 's advantage in the long-run , however , because with supporters at a loose end on Saturdays , they have an ideal opportunity to visit the ‘ old home ’ and Mr Singh 's new megastore . |
| 7 | But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life . |
| 8 | The most practical means of achieving this would be to partially construct the wall panels on the ground with the uprights and horizontals pegged together ; the wattling would then be inserted and finally the wall plate . |
| 9 | One way to determine this would be to old an ordinary ruler at arms length and note how many millimetres the width of an object appears to occupy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And , because 400 years of Christianity have n't entirely obliterated caste , this will be to a Christian of Brahmin stock . |