Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 2 | It would make more sense to put some of the money to improving the surfaces of the existing roads , which again compare very unfavourably with our European neighbours . |
| 3 | It commits the industry to applying the same ban on billboard advertising overlooking playgrounds as already applies to billboard advertising close to schools . |
| 4 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 5 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 6 | Instead Westminster Bank made him a junior at its Darlington branch : ‘ I did all the jobs from making the tea to fetching the ledgers from the safe . ’ |
| 7 | The key to completing the design was to add the input-output interface of Motorola 's 88110 RISC to the IBM chip , something that turned out to be easier than anticipated . |
| 8 | And the key to maintaining the regularity and discipline would be to walk out of my front door and do a circuit around the block and back home again . |
| 9 | Your generation will be the key to shaping the new Europe and seizing the new opportunities that could not be imagined during the Cold War . |
| 10 | This is the key to reading the Bible . |
| 11 | So the key to writing the suspense story is the creation , one after another , of situations of suspense . |
| 12 | The key to enjoying the martial arts is perseverance . |
| 13 | But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before . |
| 14 | The key to healing the divisions in man 's nature which produce the tension between active and contemplative life is love , only realised in playing the game of faith that this is true . |
| 15 | The sound knowledge of local living costs obtained from BI/COL will help provide the key to achieving the right renumeration package . |
| 16 | Designing in its various forms ( product , graphic , packaging , advertising , etc. ) is the key to translating the invention into a commercially viable innovation ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 17 | This is really the key to getting the economy stabilised but the Chancellor did n't have the courage of his convictions to do it . |
| 18 | The key to getting the reform through was held by business , which found itself confused . |
| 19 | The murders were the key to unravelling the chaos on the planet . |
| 20 | A BIZARRE tale of heroin addiction , drug peddling , police raids and the missing page from an old chemistry journal lie behind the chance discovery in California of a chemical that may be the key to unlocking the mysteries of Parkinson 's Disease — a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system that afflicts the elderly . |
| 21 | Slavery is the key to unlocking the third chamber of Kane 's theorem about why blacks excel in sport : ‘ Of all the physical and psychological theories about the American black 's excellence in sport , none has proved more controversial than one of the least discussed : that slavery weeded out the weak ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.80 ) . |
| 22 | The key to unlocking the secret of the system of precedent is the ability to unravel lengthy individual judgments in order to identify the key propositions of law relevant to the essential facts of the litigation . |
| 23 | On Dec. 17 in The Hague , 45 states and organizations signed the European Energy Charter ( agreed in November 1991 — see p. 38602 ) , described as " the key to unlocking the resources of the former Soviet bloc countries " in which 35-40 per cent of the world 's gas , half its coal and half its petroleum were located . |
| 24 | Training is also the key to unlocking the vast , untapped potential of individual women and men . |
| 25 | This is the key to creating the vastly increased capacity to train so urgently needed without dramatically expanding the available human resources . |
| 26 | The key to exploiting the car 's handling prowess is to keep on the gas . |
| 27 | As he sees it , the ‘ modest incremental cost ’ of producing versions for different platforms is the key to exploiting the variety of formats . |
| 28 | The key to selecting the appropriate assets is as follows : ( 1 ) First , understand what the business is that the purchaser wishes to buy . |
| 29 | The software is the key to finding the right computer these days . |
| 30 | The government … sees women as the key to solving the labour shortfall in the 1990s . |