Example sentences of "[pron] be the [noun] to [noun] " 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 | The niceties of judicial pronouncements concerning the interpretation of these sections are clearly apparent from a decision in the Court of Appeal on s. 32(1) , Housing Act 1961 , which was the predecessor to s. 11(1) , Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 . |
| 8 | To the Germans , however , it presented the key to Côte 304 , which was the key to Mort Homme , which in turn was the key that would unlock the Right Bank , und so weiter . |
| 9 | The separation of administrative and professional activities and the use of ‘ floating ’ groups of professional librarians within an authority has found some exponents , but the stress on attention to the stock , which was the key to McClellan 's thinking , has not been followed up ( although many universities now operate a subject specialist system ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Who is the link-man to Kirov , by the way ? ’ |
| 12 | She was the consultant to Vietnam — The country not the war . |
| 13 | She was the opposite to Bertha . |
| 14 | Phyllisia found friendship in someone who was the opposite to Marian — Edith , she was poor and therefore dressed in scruffy clothes , she had gone against her father 's orders of never to see Edith again . |
| 15 | I would like to make one special mention in this general tribute — to Philip Nash who was the Secretary to Sir Hubert Rance . |
| 16 | One is the reaction to Europe 's disastrous foreign policy in Bosnia . |
| 17 | There were the injuries to Dermot Reeve , Gladstone Small , Tim Munton and Keith Piper . |
| 18 | Well there 's , Another World , Bart 's , Blazing Skies , Kick off , Roadrunner , Robocop Three , Super Spiderman and X Man Sa Spi , Spinny Dizzy World , Super Gold you got A Al , Axe Razor Face Ball Two Thousand , N C A , N C A A Basketball , Race Driving , Town Park , Sonic Blast Man , Sword Blazer , Super Double Dragon Star Wars , Super , Champ , erm , the Magical Quest , The World League Soccer and th , there 's the A to Z of reviews . |
| 19 | There is the damage to government systems of social responsibility which may slide back into selfish chaos . |
| 20 | There was the road to Cuzco . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One sees the beginnings of a serious criticism of the very basis of The Lord of the Rings here : the author appears to have presented a set of rules and then observed them only partially , reserving as it were the right to exceptions and miracles . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 26 | But it 's the key to things . |
| 27 | It 's the predisposition to heart attacks , it does n't matter how well you sa stick to your diet what have you cholesterol |
| 28 | but he but it is the day to day d detailed development |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |