Example sentences of "were the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The moments which both Devlin and Lloyd remembered most clearly were the perils to Ramsey 's life . |
| 2 | There were the injuries to Dermot Reeve , Gladstone Small , Tim Munton and Keith Piper . |
| 3 | Actions , not words , were the way to Karen 's heart . |
| 4 | ‘ Discipline , determination and endurance were the keys to success . ’ |
| 5 | Training of staff , provision of nursery places , child care and part-time workers ' rights were the keys to equality for women , said Miss Hilary Armstrong during a visit to the town . |
| 6 | Particularly successful aspects of the talk were the invitation to contributions from the floor , which led to several interesting points being made , and the mix of old photographs from the heyday of steam with modern ones mostly taken by himself . |
| 7 | In my own study , experiences of unemployment were tempered by the fact that many respondents were also critical of the jobs and schemes which were the alternatives to unemployment . |
| 8 | More successful , he felt , were the attributions to Flink , Lievens , Bol , Hoogstraten and Drost . |
| 9 | One sees the beginnings of a serious criticism of the very basis of The Lord of the Rings here : the author appears to have presented a set of rules and then observed them only partially , reserving as it were the right to exceptions and miracles . |
| 10 | No one yet knows quite why these reversals occur , but they were the keystone to Vine and Matthews 's modification of Hess 's ‘ sea-floor spreading ’ concept . |
| 11 | This is especially true of the female workers who constituted the bulk of the textile labour force throughout the prewar period , at a time when textiles were the key to exports and industrial growth . |
| 12 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott has described it as an art ‘ needing the patience of an animal ’ , and undoubtedly there would be times when physical strength and endurance were the key to survival , for survive they must to make any contribution from their efforts . |