Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | The medium , for Chester , is merely the means to an end : ‘ When we take over the theatre , we create an atmosphere so charged with positivity that people leave feeling uplifted . |
2 | It is only the answers to these questions that can really enable you to judge an ad , although it will certainly be good supporting evidence if the answers to the earlier questions are favourable . |
3 | Lovely as the peak experience is , it is only the path to the transcendent . |
4 | Hungary is less the exception to this rule than is often made out . |
5 | Discretionary policy-making at a number of levels in the organization is thus the key to this system , perhaps corresponding in its internal fluidity to some of the features of Burns and Stalker 's organic model of organization . |
6 | ‘ 'T IS not the day to be thinking of the past , ’ he said . |
7 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel . |
8 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel either . |
9 | ‘ This is not the way to the Mercury Garden , ’ it announced . |
10 | ‘ This is not the way to Sleep of the Just , ’ it said . |
11 | There is more glamorous mountain scenery ahead , but this unfortunately is not the way to Zurich . |
12 | But this is not the concourse to the train platforms . |
13 | In the latter case , they do have a restrictive value but one which belongs to their rather complicated lexical property , not to their structural function , and the target of that restriction is not the subject to which that property is assigned . |
14 | Is not the approach to lawmaking found in this Bill a topic fit for the Royal Commission 's attention ? |
15 | This is not the moment to . |
16 | For the future , technology transfer will remain a way of managing Soviet dilemmas , and perhaps ours , but it is not the key to our problems , nor the solution to theirs . |
17 | Is not the key to good service in the health service , good management ? |
18 | It is about time that we started to realise that the financial centre of London is not the key to our success . |
19 | This approach is not the key to finding how managers can develop the combination of visionary gift and pragmatic skill . |
20 | It was Reagan , but it could have been Thatcher , who said in 1981 , ‘ Government is not the solution to our problems . |
21 | This is not the answer to which the study of the New Testament leads . |
22 | We know that cash is not the answer to everything , but it 's surprising how much comfort it could bring to your life and the lives of those around you . |
23 | However it is important to remember that recycling is not the answer to all our waste problems . |
24 | And the implant is not the answer to all disfiguring scars or wrinkles . |
25 | Increasing the contribution rate is not the answer to gaining mass membership to the Party . |
26 | Little industrial units employing a handful of people working for peanuts is not the answer to mass redundancies anywhere . |
27 | This is not the path to Ben Nevis . ’ |
28 | It is not the means to an end conceived elsewhere : but an ‘ as if ’ , no less substantial than the as if of revolution itself . |
29 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
30 | The whole unit had to be dismantled to allow a new base to be fitted — a costly and time-consuming disaster , which taught me that 11pm on Saturday , at the end of a tiring day , is not the time to be doing d-i-y ! |