Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the focus of our endeavour must necessarily be the degree to which the project has achieved its own stated objectives , the evaluators have felt free to go beyond the limits which those objectives described . |
| 2 | Walking out on your partner may not be the answer to midlife change and you may not want a divorce , but you are likely to find that you need to update your relationship if the marriage is to be sound and mutually satisfying for another twenty or thirty years . |
| 3 | PLANTATIONS of trees in the tropics may not be the answer to global warming , Friends of the Earth have warned . |
| 4 | She might just be the key to what I 'm looking for … ’ |
| 5 | After issue they can be traded ( they are thus ‘ securities ’ ) and so the holder at the time of redemption need not be the person to whom the bill was originally issued . |
| 6 | Thus , part of the explanation for the power of the official over the politician may well be the extent to which the politician relies upon the official for information in order to make decisions . |
| 7 | Erm so erm but of course I mean t to make the point because it does n't really contradict what you 're saying Heather because of course the rather more extreme kinds of Protestant Sects that do emphasise for example erm er narrow dogmatic teaching much more so you could say that erm and I think this would perhaps be the answer to , to Oliver 's point to some extent because it goes back to Dean 's original point that erm here we 're we we 're talking about a general theory of groups , but of course some groups can be more groupie than others . |
| 8 | His hope was that he would be able to spend the Easter weekend in peaceful anonymity away from the media , not foreseeing that the press conference would merely be the beginning to a story that grew and grew . |
| 9 | The system manager would also be the contact to whom the supplier would turn when arranging suitable dates for updating software , for example , and other maintenance work . |
| 10 | The wording of the instruction will usually be the clue to the type of question . |
| 11 | Such deviations will often be the clue to special interpretations associated with traditional figures of speech such as metaphor , metonymy , synecdoche , paradox , irony If such tropes occur , what kind of special interpretation is involved ( eg metaphor can be classified as personifying , animizing , concretizing , synaesthetic , etc ) ? |
| 12 | Of course , the relevant question here will often be the extent to which the caveat emptor doctrine has been abrogated through legislative intervention in contracts of supply ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | More , I believe , than would be acceptable to people , so that nuclear power in itself will never be the solution to our energy problems . |
| 14 | The day care centre can often be the link to other agencies when special needs are identified . |