Example sentences of "[noun pl] were the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books were the key to making sense of the world around me , as well as the means of transcending its realities , and my reading was obsessive . |
| 2 | Somehow Athelstan knew these texts were the key to the mystery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Heading each month 's figures were the payments to the management . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The murders were the key to unravelling the chaos on the planet . |
| 7 | Those skragged bits were the sacrifices to his personal god of Transformation . |
| 8 | The low cliffs were the key to the puzzle : we had been searching too far north . |
| 9 | Slow rise in demand for workstations and severe pressure on prices were the key to the downturn , IDC believes , although the actual number of machines shipped in the mid-range and workstation sectors rose by 24% and 19% respectively . |
| 10 | Education authorities were the key to providing training . |
| 11 | Maps were the key to her plan . |
| 12 | He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs . |
| 13 | The research we carried out in the Rubber Chemicals section identified that improved written systems were the key to preventing Lost Time Accidents and Classified Injuries like chemical burns . |