Example sentences of "[modal v] work to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This very continuity should work to the advantage of the regular US Tour competitors . |
| 2 | Furthermore , all three activities could and should work to the advantage of environmental conservation by encouraging people into new landscapes and thus heightening their environmental awareness so that they themselves become part of the environmental protection movement . |
| 3 | In the case of an article written by five authors , for example , the availability of one extra slot may work to the advantage of a colleague whose goodwill is valued but whose involvement with the project had been only marginal ; such circumstances may help create a dip in the number of articles with five authors ( figs 2 and 4 ) which further accentuates the peak at six authors . |
| 4 | In other words , the system of competitive vote bidding acts like a ratchet encouraging ever more government services at the same time as it penalises a government prepared to take " tough " decisions that may hit particular interests in the short run even though these decisions may work to the advantage of all in the longer run . |
| 5 | Tighter control of the bureaucracy by one group of politicians may work to the disadvantage of others . |
| 6 | In the case of a tenant 's notice a requirement that rent be apportioned may work to the prejudice of the landlord since he will need time to arrange a reletting. ( c ) Circumstances of exercise It is rare nowadays for the landlord to have an unrestricted power to determine a lease . |
| 7 | Commercially , such a rent review clause may work to the disadvantage of either party . |
| 8 | The only area where this may work to the buyer 's detriment is in the area of the product lifetime . |
| 9 | Instead one would work to the lowest common skill denominator — the basis of modernist organization — and minimize the costs of labour turnover not through minimizing the labour transfers but through minimizing training costs and skills . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that such a proposal about coal imports would be in direct conflict with the objectives of GATT and of free trade and would also result in the removal of the need for competitiveness in British Coal , which would work to the disadvantage of the consumer ? |
| 11 | In essence the process consists of mixing vegetable and animal wastes , adding a base to neutralize acidity , and managing the mass so that the aerobic micro-organisms which break it down can work to the best advantage . |
| 12 | The misunderstandings of ‘ pain in animals ’ can work to the severe detriment of the animals by attempting to assign to them specifically human values . |
| 13 | But such intense interest can work to the carer 's advantage too . |
| 14 | The second area of the report which I would want to draw your attention to is that area concerned with growth and savings and a number have put forward in sections seven , eight , nine and ten of the report , that on pages six , seven and eight and it 's got within those growth and savings that we can work to the target set by the policy committee . |