Example sentences of "[be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you are drawn against an élite performer who has a great deal of experience , the fact that you may be younger , hungrier , fitter could be to your advantage . |
| 2 | The first punch may be to the face , so attention is focused there . |
| 3 | But whatever the size of your company and whatever business you are in , I believe it will be to your benefit to read this booklet and act upon its recommendations . |
| 4 | And she capitalized on this , she saw where it could be to her advantage to be perceived as a celluloid creation . |
| 5 | For example , if you have the situation where you want to put two occasionally-used machines quite close to one another , it may be to your advantage that their heights are exactly the same so the job can run across both tables . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ideally conversion could be to 100Hz to reduce risk . |
| 8 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 9 | One possible application of the proposals would be to the Civil Aviation Authority , which desperately needs new capital to deal with the problems of air traffic congestion in Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ Our job will be to be flexible . |
| 11 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 12 | John Ellis , general secretary of the Civil and Public Services Association , which has members employed by the Government 's statistical services , said : ‘ Anything that improves the quality of statistics , which this country is very good at getting wrong , particularly on transport and the economy , would be to the benefit of the whole country . ’ |
| 13 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 14 | The sooner Chris Woods , if fit , or David Seaman is brought in , the closer England will be to having an insurance policy should misfortune befall the great keeper , as in the infamous case of Gordon Banks in 1970 . |
| 15 | Thanks be to God for being what He is , for showing Himself to me … |
| 16 | A positive interaction with these characteristics can only be to the benefit of artists and their followers alike . |
| 17 | The timing of such an arrangement would be crucial if adverse American reaction was to be avoided ; it was believed that the first approaches should be to the Dominions , followed by the USA , USSR , and China , culminating in a full international conference . |
| 18 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 19 | For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants . |
| 20 | ‘ Not a thing in the wide world , thanks be to God . ’ |
| 21 | The trips will be to the Clare Lakelands and Shannon . |
| 22 | The point of Benjamin 's article seems to be to decentre the political , or at least to subject it to test , to remove those making claims for their political correctness from their habitual position of judge and jury : such that the art can , in principle , sort out the politics , and not just vice versa . |
| 23 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 24 | Be-1 , Pao and S-Cargo , made in small volumes and sold in Japan at premiums over the Micra model on which they are based , may not be to everyone 's taste . |
| 25 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 26 | ‘ If there 's any cruelty involved , ’ Hughes says , ‘ it would be to the foxes , not to the sheep . |
| 27 | First call could be to the CHP Association , an independent body which will send lists of member companies and general information . |
| 28 | Second call could be to those CHP companies prepared to offer a free initial energy analysis . |
| 29 | I 've got a new car and it 's already got 23,000 on the clock , and three-quarters of that must be to the club . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ A clinician 's first duty must be to the patient , ’ said one . |