Example sentences of "was [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught a cold on his way to Tangiers which affected his left lung , but this was merely the prelude to what became an unfortunate trip . |
| 2 | Even if X. Ray was only the Baptist to some little woodchuck 's saviour , I do know that nothing died with Osvaldo except his own faults . |
| 3 | And of course the building society mortgage was already the key to urban working-class home ownership . |
| 4 | He was just the person to be drawn into psychical research , and also into work on the boundary of matter and energy , a frontier like that between body and mind . |
| 5 | It was just the opposite to before the 1979 Open . |
| 6 | They did n't know it — he was just the Kid to them — but he knew . |
| 7 | A few yards up the hill , on my left , was a turning which at first I thought was just the entrance to a field . |
| 8 | And that is why Peter 's office decided long ago that he was not the person to be first to hear news about the latest software products . |
| 9 | He had a sudden fear that this was not the Charleroi to Brussels road . |
| 10 | This was not the climax to a corny B-film . |
| 11 | But it was not the damage to his hand or the rest of the obvious physical damage that made a tragedy for Tom . |
| 12 | Intelligent independent critics like Beaton and popular magazines like Photoplay knew that Vidor 's work was good but they also knew that it was not the answer to Hollywood 's problems . |
| 13 | The community business programme , on the other hand , was not the answer to mass unemployment such as exists in Brownlow . |
| 14 | Patrick Stewart , secretary of the CFA , however , said yesterday that it should be made clear that the pinger was not the answer to the problem of submarines operating too close to fishing vessels . |
| 15 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 16 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 17 | Whatever had happened in the past , this was not the time to be aloof , Ashley thought , as she allowed him to lead her away . |
| 18 | Downstream was always the way to People … |
| 19 | ‘ I was always the type to be easily led . |
| 20 | But for Jenks thought was always the precursor to action . |
| 21 | Factory greyness had dulled the senses and while the club was still the place to be , it certainly was n't the place to play . |
| 22 | Each corner contained a runner of sorts , which increased the rope drag , so that by the time I peeped round into the main central corner that was clearly the key to the route , the drag was very serious . |
| 23 | This building was probably the gate-house to the hostelry . |
| 24 | It was also the key to understanding the workings of power in the present and the future . |
| 25 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 26 | When she woke she was further annoyed at having dreamed a category confusion , a man and a book , not realising that the category error was partly the answer to the uncouth question , since Proust was coterminous with a book as the eponymous Tom Jones was not . |
| 27 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 28 | Service to a king or a great lord was often the key to patronage and status . |
| 29 | It was originally the farm to a nearby monastery . |
| 30 | The Cabinet did behave as a Cabinet and although I said earlier about the Treasury being forced to disgorge information when the DEA existed , that was n't the case to the same extent in 1976 . |