Example sentences of "[conj] [be] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In them you will see in the hands of a master ( though not every book he writes is farce crime ) how to achieve that build-up of ever more ridiculous events that is the key to success in this form of crime fiction . |
| 2 | ‘ I heard about this today from auld Timmins , him that 's the under-manager to Brackenridge in Soft Bric-a-brac and Genteel Furnishings . |
| 3 | But neither was Millet a part of these last days , nor was the journey to Moscow , nor the rendezvous that was aborted , nor the arrest and the trial . |
| 4 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 5 | And is the turning to fantasy worlds ( as in the film ‘ E.T . ’ , |
| 6 | It shows that Christ 's work of sinbearing did not abrogate the moral claims of the law , but was the precondition to men being able to face up to them . |
| 7 | When , for example , Sidney Webb talked of a ‘ fourfold path of collective administration of public services , collective regulation of private industry , collective taxation of unearned income , and collective provision for the dependent sections of the community ’ as being the pathway to socialism , he outlined a programme with which many New Liberals in practice agreed . |
| 8 | The historic city of Salzburg is another popular choice , as is the visit to Obergurgl , Austria 's highest parish , with its summer skiing on the eternal snows of the glacier . |
| 9 | Wimbledon was as much a mystery to them as was the Orinoco to Henry . |
| 10 | The sensation of sharing airspace with a murderous enemy — although in fact he saw no other aircraft — was disconcerting , as was the coming to terms with the idea that not all the world was locked in war , but only parts of it . |