Example sentences of "is [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its wings were folded when the building collapsed and so the damage is mostly to the wing tips . |
| 2 | This exercise is valuable not only to enable the draftsman to produce a set of conditions which is most to the advantage of his client ( whether his client be buyer or seller ) , but also to enable him to understand the motivation of the other side when he is in negotiation with their advisers . |
| 3 | 639 to ‘ this day ’ , that is , Adomnán 's time of writing , c . 700 , which is some time after the power of the northern Angles beyond the Forth had been shattered at Nechtanesmere in 685 , and the reference is rather to the failure of the kings of Scottish Dál Riata to regain control of Irish Dál Riata in Antrim . |
| 4 | I can assure the hon. Member that there is no question of selling out any section of British industry because it is greatly to the advantage of British industry and the British economy that there should be a satisfactory outcome to the present Uruguay round . |
| 5 | It is greatly to the credit of the profession that , as viewers , we are not aware of the many techniques which have been used to produce a ‘ natural ’ effect . |
| 6 | It is greatly to the credit of the squeaking John Major that he broke free from the stage-managed sets devised by his image makers . |
| 7 | This I think is greatly to the credit of ICM , provided , as you say , that we can retain the appropriate balance . |
| 8 | The reference is merely to the integrity of the dance as an end in itself . |
| 9 | In Chapter II , the reference is only to the taking of ‘ evidence ’ , which is a well recognised function of consuls , as reflected , e.g. , in United Kingdom bilateral conventions and in the 1954 Convention , and not the performance of ‘ other judicial acts ’ ( regarded as exclusively judicial functions ) . |
| 10 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 11 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 12 | The forecast mechanism proposed here is one which is much to the advantage of the buyer , since it carries no obligation upon the buyer to purchase all or any of the forecast quantities . |
| 13 | Rowntree 's general comment on all this is much to the point : " The hidden curriculum marches on . |
| 14 | The main village is away to the west , with areas of shrinkage on its south side . |
| 15 | When you reach the far bank , the renovated Opera House is away to the right . |
| 16 | Attractive well presented property set in sought after village which is just to the north east of Oxford . |
| 17 | ‘ McAllister 's first duty is always to the Master , and so I commanded her to make me a pot of coffee . |
| 18 | But , with the waltzes of Johann Strauss and the inspiration of the city on the likes of Beethoven , Brahms , Haydn , Mozart and Mahler to name a few , music is always to the fore . |
| 19 | Call effect This is always to the disadvantage of the bond-holder and will have a negative effect on price . |
| 20 | It is directly to the south of the hub of administrative Wales — the capital city of the Principality . |
| 21 | The boldest and the best way to take is directly to the east , because there are some splendid sights to see in the valley of Larrau and beyond . |
| 22 | Smile or squirm at the acronym SLUG — there is more to the name than meets the eye . |
| 23 | In Western societies like Britain awareness of the possible or actual dangers of RE is more to the fore than appreciation of its potential assets . |
| 24 | But there is more to the difficulty than this : the width of the belt of incised meanders in the limestone is often greater than the width of the floodplain in the clay . |
| 25 | There is more to the story of the golden calf than the features we have already mentioned . |
| 26 | ‘ What is more to the point , she was , as the physician informed me , not dead — not quite ! ’ |
| 27 | If and in so far as there are any presumptions which assist in my conclusions ( and I instinctively dislike introducing presumptions in reaching a decision of fact as crucial as this ) , the presumption that a state of affairs continues until the evidence suggests that it no longer pertains is more to the point than the submission of Mr. Levy that the sanctity of life is so vital an interest to protect that if I am in any doubt that should take precedence . |
| 28 | " What are you , is more to the point . |
| 29 | For while it is the case that the academic community is distinguished by its ‘ elaborated ’ discourse ( Gouldner 1976 ) , it is more to the point that each disciplinary community has developed its own elaborated discourse . |
| 30 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the megalomania of early divine kingships without , at the time , seeing its relation to the depressive aspects of the early agriculture on which these institutions were based.ll Nevertheless , it is now clear , as I hope to show , that the two opposite types of symptom do in fact appear in connection with the coming of agriculture and , which is more to the point for our present concerns , that this is a phenomenon not without relevance to the understanding of the modern world . |