Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 2 | The Government Agent of the Southern Province wrote in his report for 1899 that the ‘ great feature of the year has been the rush to plumbago [ graphite ] . |
| 3 | And at the last three meetings the bookmakers have operated in a confined square which certainly has n't been the answer to congestion problems . |
| 4 | Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism . |
| 5 | All agreed that the tactical decision on whether to go east or west at Cape Finisterre had been the key to success . |
| 6 | It also marks the conclusion of an extraordinarily complex process of rights negotiations between a snowballing number of interested parties , and here too , an unusual degree of collaboration — in this case , between normally rival publishers — has been the key to success . |
| 7 | Catholicism is unlikely to have been the key to Clovis 's success . |
| 8 | Dr George Kingsley seems to have been the key to Mary 's character — he was an inveterate traveller and his rare moments at home displayed tyrannical dominance and vanity , traits inherited by his daughter who both admired and resented him . |
| 9 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 10 | Death and violence are the accompaniments to negotiation as South Africa struggles forward to elections next year . |
| 11 | The changes that count are the ones to EC institutions and the ground rules that they play by . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Precision and consistency are the keys to success : the half-dozen friers in the long kitchen discreetly tucked behind a panelled wall are obviously highly disciplined . |
| 14 | Interest and desire are the keys to concentration and effective study . |
| 15 | ‘ ( 4 ) Are the answers to questions ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) affected by the fact that the measure in question has been introduced with the object and effect of rendering a number of fishing vessels which immediately prior to the date of such measure coming into effect have been duly registered in and licensed to fish by the member state in question and which are to a substantial extent beneficially owned by nationals of another member state , resident and domiciled in that other member state , ineligible to fly the flag of the first member state with the result that they cease to be eligible to fish against the catch quotas allocated to the first member state under the Common Fisheries Policy unless ownership and management of the vessels are transferred to citizens of the first member state resident and domiciled therein in accordance with the provisions of the said measure ? |
| 16 | ‘ ( 4 ) Are the answers to questions ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) affected by the fact that the measure in question has been introduced with the object and effect of rendering a number of fishing vessels which immediately prior to the date of such measure coming into effect have been duly registered in and licensed to fish by the member state in question and which are to a substantial extent beneficially owned by nationals of another member state , resident and domiciled in that other member state , ineligible to fly the flag of the first member state with the result that they cease to be eligible to fish against the catch quotas allocated to the first member state under the Common Fisheries Policy unless ownership and management of the vessels are transferred to citizens of the first member state resident and domiciled therein in accordance with the provisions of the said measure ? |
| 17 | These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields . |
| 18 | What are the barriers to growth ? |
| 19 | What are the benefits to teachers ? |
| 20 | What are the benefits to students ? |
| 21 | Under the heading , ’ Other Benefits ’ — uncosted — it said : ’ The further benefits from Nurse Prescribing are the benefits to patients of faster access to some prescription items and the benefits they will derive from additional items prescribed for them by District Nurses and Health Visitors . ’ |
| 22 | What are the conditions to Gift Aid ? |
| 23 | Sadder still are the references to death — Bonnard 's brother in early 1941 and his wife , ‘ ma pauvre Marthe ’ , in January 1942 . |
| 24 | If individual goals are the key to motivation , can managers discover the goals of their staff ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Their skills , coupled with an acute understanding of customer requirements , are the key to success . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | Dreams are the key to understanding — that 's why I must find out what my dream means ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What are the alternatives to UDC style ‘ regeneration ’ from the perspective of the political left ? |