Example sentences of "[pron] [be] the [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own study , experiences of unemployment were tempered by the fact that many respondents were also critical of the jobs and schemes which were the alternatives to unemployment . |
| 2 | Instead , it confined itself to actions initiated against corporations ( which is the equivalent to arrest/prosecution ) and actions completed ( which is the equivalent to conviction ) . |
| 3 | Instead , it confined itself to actions initiated against corporations ( which is the equivalent to arrest/prosecution ) and actions completed ( which is the equivalent to conviction ) . |
| 4 | It provides your work with organisation which is the key to understanding . |
| 5 | Unlike Pushkin 's improvisatore , for whom there was ‘ no toil , no dearth , nor that unrest which is the prelude to inspiration ’ , I had to prepare the way . |
| 6 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 7 | Lord Bridge did not in fact refer to section 6(1) of the Act of 1977 which was the precursor to section 69(1) , but I accept that he must be assumed to have had it in mind . |
| 8 | There is the damage to government systems of social responsibility which may slide back into selfish chaos . |
| 9 | First , there was the accession to power in Britain of the Labour Party , some of whom were sympathetic to the idea of ‘ sensible reform ’ ( Bew et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | This pattern is very consistent with the general pattern of winds swinging round the eastern end of the subtropical high pressure cell : in the north they are the north-west to north , etesian or meltemi winds of the Mediterranean lands , while further south they become the north-east Trades . |
| 11 | No one yet knows quite why these reversals occur , but they were the keystone to Vine and Matthews 's modification of Hess 's ‘ sea-floor spreading ’ concept . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 13 | It 's the predisposition to heart attacks , it does n't matter how well you sa stick to your diet what have you cholesterol |
| 14 | but he but it is the day to day d detailed development |
| 15 | Rolle is emphatic that " ryghtwysnes " is not in the discipline itself , but it is the fruit of it , a state of inner freedom untouched by the constraints of outward circumstances : He recognises that the will to effect such inner effort has to be awakened — drawn — that it is the response to goodness in men and in Christ , and to the joy of heaven , which starts to work man 's salvation . |
| 16 | This is not the end of history : it is the return to history , after the long freeze imposed on European political development by the Cold War . |
| 17 | It is the struggle to maturity that brings that state , and which , perhaps , can never be attained as such . |
| 18 | In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage . |
| 19 | It is the right to life and love . |
| 20 | It was the attitude to peace which nagged him most , however . |
| 21 | Early on he learned — the hard way — that it was the passport to success . |
| 22 | It was the gateway to life and one she suddenly had no wish to pass through , one she felt a gripping fear of passing through . |
| 23 | The young boy still stood behind him , one hand gripping the bag , the other balled into a tight fist , guarding Athelstan 's penny as if it was the key to heaven itself . |
| 24 | What are the conditions to Gift Aid ? |
| 25 | What are the barriers to growth ? |