Example sentences of "[noun sg] be the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death and violence are the accompaniments to negotiation as South Africa struggles forward to elections next year . |
| 2 | Particularly successful aspects of the talk were the invitation to contributions from the floor , which led to several interesting points being made , and the mix of old photographs from the heyday of steam with modern ones mostly taken by himself . |
| 3 | The change in auditory target pointing shown in Table 6 supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to change in the proprioceptive sense in the arm , while the adaptation in the non-preferred hand in Table 7 supports the other hypothesis ; that visual perception is the key to adaptation . |
| 4 | PARTNERSHIP is the key to success for the Rathbone Society 's alliance with County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 5 | Where there is great specificity in seed-dispersal , a state of affairs that seems in general very rare , the disappearance of the dispersal agent is the road to extinction for the plant . |
| 6 | Confusion is the cousin to Chaos . |
| 7 | I 'm still lost for what in effect is the answer to Mr 's question . |
| 8 | Fear is the key to Benn triumph |
| 9 | Today 's Stagisti , guided by the mechanical tragedies that befell their hapless predecessors , know that preventive maintenance is the key to dependability . |
| 10 | It became clear that the quality of the programme was the key to degree of success . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | He recalled the movie Member of the Wedding which he described as ‘ the ONLY adult film I have ever seen which made a serious attempt to analyse the idea of adolescent loneliness being the prelude to alone-ness . ’ |
| 13 | Any covering will help to reduce the loss of nutrients from the soil but the advantage of growing crops such as mustard or rape is the improvement to soil structure when ploughed or dug into the soil in spring . |
| 14 | Competitiveness is the key to job creation and the key to competitiveness is the control of inflation . |
| 15 | Regular , enjoyable exercise is the key to fitness improvement . |
| 16 | Flexibility is the key to success and is especially important when the employment situation is difficult and changing rapidly . |
| 17 | The give-away in Marx 's description of alienation is the reference to leisure . |
| 18 | These workers have emphasised that the initial lesion in this model of atherogenesis is the adherence to endothelium of monocytes which then appear to migrate into the subendothelium , accumulate lipid and become lipid-laden macrophages or foam cells . |
| 19 | The coach was the Dublin to Derry Express . |
| 20 | Sir Francis Child was the banker to William and Mary and even had to arrange to provide jewellery , some of it his own and his wife 's , for the great double Coronation . |
| 21 | Interest and desire are the keys to concentration and effective study . |
| 22 | With repeat business being the key to survival , the system allows for extremely flexible plans . |
| 23 | For ISS , the head teacher is the key to improvement ; the head 's capacity to energize staff and build upon known good practice ( which ISS carefully sought to identify ) is a prerequisite of school improvement . |
| 24 | The first one coming up in a moment is the London to Sydney car marathon , we 're going on the roads of India and Australia . |
| 25 | On the right is the entrance to Newington Crescent where Nicholson and Maule lived during the 1850s . |
| 26 | The most familiar yield curve is the yield to maturity ( YTM ) yield curve . |
| 27 | If continuity is the key to football hooliganism , then there should be some solid evidence of similar forms of violence at football matches since the formation of the Football League . |
| 28 | ‘ A high degree of professionalism is the key to success in today 's complex and competitive world . ’ |
| 29 | Confidence is the key to success in partnerships : the more happy experiences the better . |
| 30 | It would be unrealistic to suggest that a good organic diet , daily meditation and aromatherapy massage is the answer to life 's problems , and that it will somehow cocoon us in an etheric pink haze for the rest of our days ! |