Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 2 | Labour 's economic policies are wrong , not chiefly because they are still preoccupied with redistributing wealth ( although they are ) , but because they reflect Labour 's conviction that public rather than private spending offers a route to national prosperity . |
| 3 | Warren Beatty also discovered a route to instant fame , co-starring with Natalie Wood , one of the world 's most glamorous young actresses in 1959 , in Elia Kazan 's Splendor in the Grass . |
| 4 | There are a number of deep paths here , since this is a route to many other peaks and low-level walks , but cross the Allt Coire an t-Sneachda and start to ascend the craggy spur that hugs the western side of the corrie . |
| 5 | But at the same time , they 're absolutely clear-eyed about what men can ‘ deliver ’ : namely , a route to children , a bit of sex and some social security . |
| 6 | This gives a route to acetic acid , selling for about £310 a tonne , that is more economic than the one from say , ethanol , at around £470 a tonne . |
| 7 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 8 | But Vézelay and Saint-Gilles lay on a route to an even more notable city than Compostela , to Rome itself . |
| 9 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 10 | So long as there is the prospect that a majority Labour government can be elected to a position of absolute power at Westminster then our unionist wing is content not to question the democratic credentials of such a route to power . |
| 11 | There is much wildlife to see , so do n't forget the binoculars and give yourself plenty of time , it 's not a route to be hurried ! |
| 12 | As Professor Chapman observes , high status nursing can be seen as a route to social mobility ; the more closely the nurse works with a doctor as a member of the team , the more prestigious the job is assumed to be . |
| 13 | Accepting help thus does not entail an accumulation of debt nor does it imply subordination , and is not a route to subjugation . |
| 14 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 15 | The men of the Old World were determined mariners and eventually some of their ships found a route to Ulthuan . |
| 16 | Many Scottish freeholders were involved in colonial trade and the plantation economy of the West Indies and , as might be expected , they saw their member of parliament 's influence in London as a route to obtaining the advantages which they desired in the colonies . |
| 17 | Education can be a route to a narrow range of professions , but for most the prospects are poor . |
| 18 | The latter does not offer a route to the former , and should be strenuously opposed as a mere manipulatory gambit on the part of ‘ capital ’ . |
| 19 | More of a problem is the fact that the mechanism does not spell out a route to producing C 70 fullerene . |
| 20 | Crisps and cornflakes are cornerstones of the multinational mass market , and maybe they could be a route to worldwide understanding , but they have little to contribute directly to the second problem — that of the short-term habitat destruction , which is now a worldwide epidemic . |
| 21 | With Ole Larsen , a Finn , Colbeck reached the furthest south ( 78° 51 'S 50'W ) thus far achieved and reconnoitred a route to the Pole later followed by Roald Amundsen , who in 1912 after his triumph sent Colbeck a letter of thanks . |
| 22 | Hofmann realized that he had discovered a new and versatile chemical reaction which could provide a route to a wide range of new compounds . |
| 23 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 24 | Thirdly , these regionally based programmes of initial training also provide a route to the obtaining of a professional qualification for an increasing number of people outside the formal further education sector , such as nurse tutors , education staff in the armed forces and in prisons , and industrial trainers . |
| 25 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 26 | This can represent a route to technology evaluation at low risk to the user and there are many examples of useful ventures which have been developed in this way . |
| 27 | Perhaps I might suggest three stages that should be considered as a route to achieving this goal . |
| 28 | Thus if Exceptional children is the preferred term , when the user looks under Children he must also be able to trace a route to the document . |
| 29 | The MPDS is a route to early membership of the IMechE [ and chartered status ] . |
| 30 | a route to the heart of the dream . |