Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the consultant to Vietnam — The country not the war . |
| 2 | She was the opposite to Bertha . |
| 3 | This pattern is very consistent with the general pattern of winds swinging round the eastern end of the subtropical high pressure cell : in the north they are the north-west to north , etesian or meltemi winds of the Mediterranean lands , while further south they become the north-east Trades . |
| 4 | No one yet knows quite why these reversals occur , but they were the keystone to Vine and Matthews 's modification of Hess 's ‘ sea-floor spreading ’ concept . |
| 5 | One sees the beginnings of a serious criticism of the very basis of The Lord of the Rings here : the author appears to have presented a set of rules and then observed them only partially , reserving as it were the right to exceptions and miracles . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 7 | But it 's the key to things . |
| 8 | It 's the predisposition to heart attacks , it does n't matter how well you sa stick to your diet what have you cholesterol |
| 9 | but he but it is the day to day d detailed development |
| 10 | Rolle is emphatic that " ryghtwysnes " is not in the discipline itself , but it is the fruit of it , a state of inner freedom untouched by the constraints of outward circumstances : He recognises that the will to effect such inner effort has to be awakened — drawn — that it is the response to goodness in men and in Christ , and to the joy of heaven , which starts to work man 's salvation . |
| 11 | This is not the end of history : it is the return to history , after the long freeze imposed on European political development by the Cold War . |
| 12 | It is the struggle to maturity that brings that state , and which , perhaps , can never be attained as such . |
| 13 | In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage . |
| 14 | It is the interpretatio to Paul 's sententiae . |
| 15 | It is the right to life and love . |
| 16 | However , the will to work is not lacking , but it is the access to skills and resources which is lacking . |
| 17 | It was the attitude to peace which nagged him most , however . |
| 18 | Early on he learned — the hard way — that it was the passport to success . |
| 19 | It was the gateway to life and one she suddenly had no wish to pass through , one she felt a gripping fear of passing through . |
| 20 | It was the secretary to Sheik Asball Hasseinen : the man she 'd gobbled to get the information that brought her here . |
| 21 | We saw a lot of the Bakers , and did day trips ; one to the historic railway at Weka Pass ; another to Mt.Herbert , the highest point on Banks Peninsula ( wonderful views over Lyttleton Harbour ) and Pigeon Bay ; and several visits to local beaches at Sumner and Taylor 's Mistake ( a bay named after a captain who thought it was the entrance to Lyttleton Harbour ) . |
| 22 | Quickly dubbed the ‘ blitz and blight Act ’ , it was the resolution to Manzoni 's ‘ beautiful problem ’ . |
| 23 | The young boy still stood behind him , one hand gripping the bag , the other balled into a tight fist , guarding Athelstan 's penny as if it was the key to heaven itself . |
| 24 | However , supporters said it was the answer to Richmond 's declining trade and was the only available site in the town . |
| 25 | From 1672 until his death he was the mason to Gray 's Inn , London . |
| 26 | He was the opposite to Lajos : Hyperion to a satyr . |