Example sentences of "this [be] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE PLAIN facts first : this is the return to centre stage that everyone hoped Bob Mould would make . |
| 2 | And er this is the way to Dover and the docks , this is the way to London . |
| 3 | And er this is the way to Dover and the docks , this is the way to London . |
| 4 | It can be seen from Figure 3 that this is the opposite to myopia . |
| 5 | This is the route to victory . ’ |
| 6 | Each of these aspects of the learning environment will now be even more fully under the control of the school than it has ever been before and this is the challenge to leadership and management in every school . |
| 7 | This is the entrance to Turbo Ted 's Nursery . |
| 8 | This is the prelude to disaster in which soil , crops , and ( particularly ) livestock can suffer as much as the farmer . |
| 9 | This is the background to Mrs Gaskell 's novel Mary Barton and Disraeli 's Sybil . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Because this is the key to success . |
| 12 | This is the key to maize 's success . |
| 13 | This is the key to understanding purity feminists ' commitment to coercive legislation in the 1880s . |
| 14 | For the Church of God 's frozen people this is the Pathway to Power , individual and Church alike are Gathered For Power . |
| 15 | I wondered if this was the pipeline to hell . |
| 16 | This was the background to Guggisberg 's efforts towards modernisation . |
| 17 | There was a real feeling that this was the key to development — this was the great crusade that was going to spirit newly independent Third World countries towards their prosperous destiny . |