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 !
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