Example sentences of "be [art] [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 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're no stranger to conspiracy , that 's for certain . |
| 18 | ‘ Judging by your ‘ incredible performance ’ of earlier this evening , you 're no stranger to men 's kisses . ’ |
| 19 | You 're no good to man or beast . |
| 20 | they 're a danger to life are n't they ? |
| 21 | ‘ And there has been no approach to Wigan over Lucas — yet ! ’ |
| 22 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 23 | Some of the farms put under restrictions yesterday have already supplied milk for public consumption , but officials were confident there had been no threat to health . |
| 24 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 25 | There has been no injury to bowel in the 113 patients in whom the procedure was attempted , although others have reported this complication . |
| 26 | The strapping Kiwi international centre — 6ft 3in and 16 stone — has been no stranger to Aussie disciplinary chiefs while playing with his Sydney club Canterbury-Bankstown . |
| 27 | As part of their case , the Church made much of the fact that there had been no objection to demolition from within the village . |
| 28 | Recently , however , there has been a reversion to analysis of pre-historic artefacts in terms of their contextual social relations , as semiotic and ideological representations , with respect both to users in the past and for us today ( e.g. Hodder ed. 1982 ; Miller and Tilley eds 1984 ) . |
| 29 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 30 | Entrusted to look after the fire or the children , let alone to go hunting , the myopic savage would have been a menace to group security . |