Example sentences of "was the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if this was the pipeline to hell . |
| 2 | The ultimate achievement , notwithstanding the numerous new stations opened in the area during the last five years , was the reopening to passenger traffic of the Cynon Valley line to Aberdare ( closed in March 1964 ) with no less than eight new stations . |
| 3 | Wimbledon was as much a mystery to them as was the Orinoco to Henry . |
| 4 | What the country got instead was the return to normality with all its faults ; and a general election . |
| 5 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 6 | Sir Francis Child was the banker to William and Mary and even had to arrange to provide jewellery , some of it his own and his wife 's , for the great double Coronation . |
| 7 | Bevan was the spur to Priestley 's powerful pen : ‘ The sight of a naked minister might bring the conference to some sense of our human situation , ‘ he wrote , ‘ What should be abandoned is deterrence-by-threat-of-retaliation . |
| 8 | Prior to that , he served a very useful apprenticeship when touring with the Wallabies in 1988 and 1989 and , for most part , was the deputy to Andy McIntyre , who is Australia 's most capped tighthead prop . |
| 9 | Where was the statue to Nathaniel Patten which had caused such consternation at Thrush Green ? |
| 10 | What was the response to questions ( percentage ) ? 5 . |
| 11 | So-called " ruler-portraits " nearly always turn out to be stereotypes : in the context of Carolingian group-identity , the precise point about images of Charles the Bald was the resemblance to Louis the Pious and Charlemagne , his father and grandfather . |
| 12 | It shows that Christ 's work of sinbearing did not abrogate the moral claims of the law , but was the precondition to men being able to face up to them . |
| 13 | She was the consultant to Vietnam — The country not the war . |
| 14 | It was the gateway to life and one she suddenly had no wish to pass through , one she felt a gripping fear of passing through . |
| 15 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 16 | The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police . |
| 17 | On the far side of the landing was the door to Curtis 's flat , the knocker was the odious face of a gnome . |
| 18 | It was the attitude to peace which nagged him most , however . |
| 19 | Punk had bequeathed the idea that demystification was the route to enlightenment . |
| 20 | If that was the route to Jean-Claude 's success , tant pis . |
| 21 | From 1672 until his death he was the mason to Gray 's Inn , London . |
| 22 | She was the opposite to Bertha . |
| 23 | He was the opposite to Lajos : Hyperion to a satyr . |
| 24 | Phyllisia found friendship in someone who was the opposite to Marian — Edith , she was poor and therefore dressed in scruffy clothes , she had gone against her father 's orders of never to see Edith again . |
| 25 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 26 | The rain was splashing on the concrete , and the hole in it that he used to pretend was the way to Australia had filled up . |
| 27 | sounds terr er terrible to me , because Pad was the way to Colliery , the last half mile along a dirt track . |
| 28 | Early on he learned — the hard way — that it was the passport to success . |
| 29 | But , while that event was the climax to date of Richard 's career with the Palace , he has been with us since his schoolboy days , for he is one of the products of the currently highly resourceful youth development programme at Selhurst Park , and his mature performances in defence earned Richard the Palace Young Player of the Year award in 1986 . |
| 30 | There was the road to Cuzco . |