Example sentences of "be the [noun] to [noun prp] " 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 | Catholicism is unlikely to have been the key to Clovis 's success . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The changes that count are the ones to EC institutions and the ground rules that they play by . |
| 5 | What are the alternatives to UDC style ‘ regeneration ’ from the perspective of the political left ? |
| 6 | What are the alternatives to Gore-Tex and Sympatex membrane waterproofs , now hitting the lofty £200 mark ? |
| 7 | RAZOR SHARP : No-nonsense central defender Neil Ruddock could be the answer to Liverpool 's well documented defensive frailties |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thus , with Congress under heavy pressure in its traditional heartland of the Ganges Plain , the southern results could be the key to Mr Gandhi 's chances of continuing in office . |
| 10 | By the time the two sides prepared to meet on the field of Gettysburg , Llewellyn had risen to be the aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee the Confederate commander . |
| 11 | The moments which both Devlin and Lloyd remembered most clearly were the perils to Ramsey 's life . |
| 12 | There were the injuries to Dermot Reeve , Gladstone Small , Tim Munton and Keith Piper . |
| 13 | Actions , not words , were the way to Karen 's heart . |
| 14 | More successful , he felt , were the attributions to Flink , Lievens , Bol , Hoogstraten and Drost . |
| 15 | That music is the window to Jason 's soul , that gently rippling , occasionally magnificent music with its brazen synth chords , its complex , geometric drum patterns and that methodical , weeping guitar . |
| 16 | A similar item coming up is the attitude to Maastricht — the first major debate to be held by the new parliament . |
| 17 | One of the limitations of anthropological investigations of the social meaning of artefacts is the tendency to Romanticize non-industrial societies as prior to objectification in the Marxist sense of rupture . |
| 18 | Also popular is the trip to Krimml and Mayrhofen , and our beautifully scenic tour round the Kitzbuhel Alps . |
| 19 | Another must is the trip to Achensee , Austria 's largest Alpine lake , before journeying to Rattenberg to view some of its world famous crystal . |
| 20 | And er this is the way to Dover and the docks , this is the way to London . |
| 21 | And er this is the way to Dover and the docks , this is the way to London . |
| 22 | That is the way to Lavondyss . |
| 23 | The whole text littered with rather dotty observations : ‘ What could possibly be so terrifying about a turtle ? ’ is the caption to Matisse 's ‘ Bathers with a turtle ’ . |
| 24 | On the east wall of the chancel is the inscription to Thomas Pelling , the ‘ flying man ’ from Lincolnshire , who fell to his death from the battlements when the rope went slack as he was descending from the church tower to the Old Star inn in April 1733 . |
| 25 | Stanley is the opposite to Mitch and an ideal choice for her needs . |
| 26 | CENTRA is the successor to NWRAC ( formerly ULCI ) whose course schemes and certificates in Machine Knitting have become well established over the last 30 years . |
| 27 | This book is the successor to Greer 's previous O level book , which is still , according to the publisher , one of the leading O level texts in this country and abroad . |
| 28 | It is the interpretatio to Paul 's sententiae . |
| 29 | Its least troublesome border is the one with Finland ( though it does n't take a Clausewitz to spot that Finland leads nowhere much , while Poland is the corridor to Germany ) . |
| 30 | Who is the link-man to Kirov , by the way ? ’ |