Example sentences of "the key to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I reckoned I might go and take a look at my inheritance , ’ Adam said , checking that the key to Wyvis Hall was safe in the pocket of his shorts . |
| 3 | I told the guards and took the key to Whitton 's chamber . |
| 4 | And here lies the key to Egerton Grey : it is a hotel in disguise . |
| 5 | Such action widened the growing split between those Republicans ( notably the Provisional IRA and Provisional Sinn Fein ) who felt that military action was the key to Ireland 's liberation , and those , like the official IRA and Sinn Fein , who considered that political means were still preferable ( Hannigan , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | AS/400 ARCHITECTURE MODEL IS THE KEY TO IBM 's PLANS TO SAVE THE MAINFRAME |
| 7 | The key to Israel 's success , and to a lesser extent Syria 's , had been its ability to prey on the strategic anxieties of its superpower patron . |
| 8 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 9 | And she did give the key to Phyllis . |
| 10 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 11 | He said the key to SmithKline 's success was its ability to market and sell brands and cash in on the potential of new products . |
| 12 | In January 1949 the French had suggested that the US might consider extending Marshall Plan assistance to Vietnam : the rapid economic rehabilitation of Vietnam , they said , could be the key to Bao Dai 's success . |
| 13 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Brilliant staging is also the key to CYRANO DE BERGERAC ( Theatre Royal , Haymarket ) — that and a remarkable performance by Robert Lindsay ( aka Citizen Smith ) . |
| 16 | This form of dramatic presentation was the key to Carole Ann Ford 's own learning technique . |
| 17 | Stup is the key to Sarajevo 's defence in the west . |
| 18 | The key to FoxPro 's performance is something called Rushmore Technology . |
| 19 | ‘ There you go , ’ he had added , opening the door and then handing the key to Ross . |
| 20 | But here lies the key to America 's competitiveness well beyond the recovery . |
| 21 | Short , who actually stands 6ft 6in tall , could prove the key to Spain 's Carlos Sainz winning his first Lombard RAC Rally for Toyota . |
| 22 | Overseas trio hold the key to Scotland fortunes Harry Pincott reports from South Africa on the preparations for the tourists ' opener |
| 23 | She was so eager to embrace the chance of Ortiz being alive — of him holding the key to Samantha 's freedom — that she shouted the words , rousing the waitress from a slumped reverie by the till . |
| 24 | The key to Humphrey 's concept of consciousness is that sensation is not the passive reception of stimuli , but an active process in which the organism responds by sending messages to do something . |
| 25 | She put the key to Les Hiboux under a stone on the terrace as arranged , and drove to the mairie . |
| 26 | Their swinging ball was the key to Pakistan 's success and both Wasim and Waqar were lethal with it . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The key to Margaret 's role is to encourage community vigilance . |
| 29 | It is Sultan Ismail Petra who probably holds the key to Kelantan 's future . |
| 30 | This negative self-definition is certainly the key to Jacobson 's fiction . |