Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , in a $52 billion-a-year industry obsessed with appearances , some companies seem to think that ‘ creativity ’ and ‘ style ’ rather than hard-headed business strategies are the keys to success . |
| 2 | If individual goals are the key to motivation , can managers discover the goals of their staff ? |
| 3 | The difference which justifies the labels is the period to maturity of the debts , or to put it the other way round , the length of time for which the funds are borrowed . |
| 4 | ‘ Making chips is the key to electronics , ’ he says . |
| 5 | This is especially true of the female workers who constituted the bulk of the textile labour force throughout the prewar period , at a time when textiles were the key to exports and industrial growth . |
| 6 | The traditional and most important essence of life was obtaining a good education , which to the black immigrants was the key to success , a way out of the ruck . |
| 7 | In fact , even as he spoke , the forces for change were there and rallying : the critique of the established constitutional authorities was eating into things below the froth of party politics ; the Liberal-SDP Alliance considered that the " key to … change lies in electoral and constitutional reform " ; and Tony Benn , generally recognised as leader of the radical left in the Labour Party , was telling large and enthusiastic audiences up and down the country that " constitutional questions are the key to power in a parliamentary democracy " and that " socialists need to give at least as much attention to the institutions of the state as to the power structure of the economy " . |
| 8 | However , other people do not accept the sufferer 's determination that alcohol or other mood-altering substances are the solution to problems rather than a further cause of them . |
| 9 | Dreams are the key to understanding — that 's why I must find out what my dream means ! |
| 10 | Training of staff , provision of nursery places , child care and part-time workers ' rights were the keys to equality for women , said Miss Hilary Armstrong during a visit to the town . |
| 11 | This is particularly so in the field of Scottish education , where folklore about having once been the best in the world has too easily fostered the delusion that restoring the old ways is the route to excellence . |
| 12 | Maintaining an effective control on their levels is the key to success . |
| 13 | What generalized the appeal of Paisley 's critique of the unionist élites was the accession to power of Terence O'Neill . |
| 14 | If teachers are the key to success of the information skills development than they will require convincing that the new approach can work in practice or at least that there is a body of sound research which proves the efficacy of information skills in the curriculum . |
| 15 | Another tragic effect of this emphasis on ‘ Anglican ethos ’ and the maintaining of the status quo by parish boundaries is the disincentive to leaders to stay and build a work whose multiplication is limitless . |
| 16 | The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police . |
| 17 | One of the limitations of anthropological investigations of the social meaning of artefacts is the tendency to Romanticize non-industrial societies as prior to objectification in the Marxist sense of rupture . |