Example sentences of "be the [noun sg] 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 | If individual goals are the key to motivation , can managers discover the goals of their staff ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Their skills , coupled with an acute understanding of customer requirements , are the key to success . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | Dreams are the key to understanding — that 's why I must find out what my dream means ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This pattern is very consistent with the general pattern of winds swinging round the eastern end of the subtropical high pressure cell : in the north they are the north-west to north , etesian or meltemi winds of the Mediterranean lands , while further south they become the north-east Trades . |
| 16 | Keegan accepted Newcastle would be looked upon as the weaker side but hoped it would be the springboard to success . |
| 17 | The rm will be the yield to maturity if the value so achieved equals the dirty price of the bond at date t . |
| 18 | It will be the opportunity to post that parcel wo n't it ? |
| 19 | Alternatively , if the monopoly profit is supposed to be the return to entrepreneurship or innovation , and these qualities are elastically supplied , output may again be affected . |
| 20 | It was agreed that the paper should be redrafted and circulated , and that any published statements of policy should make it clear Conservatives ‘ did not believe additional resources alone to be the answer to law and order problems , but that the humanizing of our society had an important contribution to make ’ . |
| 21 | RAZOR SHARP : No-nonsense central defender Neil Ruddock could be the answer to Liverpool 's well documented defensive frailties |
| 22 | The Code was thought to be the answer to misbehaviour . |
| 23 | It is not a school where people come to attend classes , or lectures , nor to hear from ‘ specialists ’ about what they consider to be the answer to community problems . |
| 24 | Walking out on your partner may not be the answer to midlife change and you may not want a divorce , but you are likely to find that you need to update your relationship if the marriage is to be sound and mutually satisfying for another twenty or thirty years . |
| 25 | expecting the other to be the solution to life 's problems |
| 26 | It could be the key to success because Coventry have free-running young players who can more than compensate for Quinn 's lack of mobility . |
| 27 | But Cantona could be the key to success . |
| 28 | Everyone in the industry agrees that quality will be the key to success and of course they all say that means them . |
| 29 | In January 1949 the French had suggested that the US might consider extending Marshall Plan assistance to Vietnam : the rapid economic rehabilitation of Vietnam , they said , could be the key to Bao Dai 's success . |
| 30 | Electronic communication — probably telecommunication-based teleconferencing and close derivatives — will be the key to multimedia 's effectiveness . |