Example sentences of "[adj] [be] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE PLAIN facts first : this is the return to centre stage that everyone hoped Bob Mould would make .
2 And er this is the way to Dover and the docks , this is the way to London .
3 And er this is the way to Dover and the docks , this is the way to London .
4 It can be seen from Figure 3 that this is the opposite to myopia .
5 This is the route to victory . ’
6 Each of these aspects of the learning environment will now be even more fully under the control of the school than it has ever been before and this is the challenge to leadership and management in every school .
7 This is the entrance to Turbo Ted 's Nursery .
8 This is the prelude to disaster in which soil , crops , and ( particularly ) livestock can suffer as much as the farmer .
9 This is the background to Mrs Gaskell 's novel Mary Barton and Disraeli 's Sybil .
10 This is the key to Dorothy Heathcote 's attitude to drama ; may I suggest it is also a key to the re-thinking that will have to be done vis-à-vis the arts and the curriculum .
11 Because this is the key to success .
12 This is the key to maize 's success .
13 This is the key to understanding purity feminists ' commitment to coercive legislation in the 1880s .
14 For the Church of God 's frozen people this is the Pathway to Power , individual and Church alike are Gathered For Power .
15 Also popular is the trip to Krimml and Mayrhofen , and our beautifully scenic tour round the Kitzbuhel Alps .
16 One of these is that stocks have been only modestly run down compared with previous recessions ; another is the boost to government spending from the Gulf war .
17 I wondered if this was the pipeline to hell .
18 This was the background to Guggisberg 's efforts towards modernisation .
19 There was a real feeling that this was the key to development — this was the great crusade that was going to spirit newly independent Third World countries towards their prosperous destiny .
20 Kiesling concludes : ‘ It does not appear that femaleness , femininity , womanhood as such is the barrier to woman 's receiving holy orders , but femaleness in a state of subjection . ’
21 The worth of individual pieces is , obviously , very various ; consistent is the appeal to piety , ensuring that the elevated theme produces a warm-hearted response .
22 It was true Dudley spent most of his time at court and it was also true that he was one of the Queen 's favourites , but surely such was the path to wealth and advancement .
23 No less ominous was the visit to Prague by Walter Runciman , one of Chamberlain 's appeasing colleagues , who , to the consternation of many , reported in favour of acquiescing in Hitler 's ruthless demands on the Czechoslovak government .
24 These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields .
25 So-called " ruler-portraits " nearly always turn out to be stereotypes : in the context of Carolingian group-identity , the precise point about images of Charles the Bald was the resemblance to Louis the Pious and Charlemagne , his father and grandfather .
26 Fig 3 is the intro to Pride And Joy .
27 The most notorious was the introduction to Edinburgh ( as nowhere else ) of the " mixed system " referred to in Chapter 1 .
28 We must build armaments , military strength and that is the way to peace .
29 That is the way to Lavondyss .
30 It 's as simple as that , and in fact , that is the key to psychoanalysis … ’
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