Example sentences of "is the [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the best way to ‘ alter ’ a colour . |
| 2 | Therefore it is suggested that the physical search is the best way to be sure that the premises are vacated . |
| 3 | That is the best way to back Britain and British industry . |
| 4 | Find out the best way to do it and then by this date we 're gon na assume a graph of procedures to work around what we decide is the best way to . |
| 5 | Idea-having is the best antidote to the common problem of going round in circles ( see Going round in circles on page 76 ) . |
| 6 | We shall now have to consider what is the best approach to the subject in the light of existing circumstances . |
| 7 | The question is whether road pricing is the best response to the problem , since it focuses on just one aspect — inadequate road space in central areas — as if road congestion and delay were the primary issues to resolve . |
| 8 | If 2 had been going to choose A , she would work out that 1 would plan to choose B , in which case she would change her planned action to whatever is the best response to B , so falsifying the initial assumption that she would choose A. Thus 1 can not persist in believing 2 will choose A if he knows that she is as rational and well-informed as he is . |
| 9 | WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO BE TESTED ? |
| 10 | Once a baseline has been established daily weighing is the best guide to fluid gain or loss ( 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram ) . |
| 11 | In fact , it is the average rate that is the best guide to whether the tax or tax system is , or is not , progressive . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types . |
| 13 | In cases of doubt a bone marrow aspirate , which is the best guide to body iron stores , should be examined . |
| 14 | ‘ This session , ’ commented one of the community participants , ‘ demonstrates that a dialogue is the best path to overcoming differences . |
| 15 | Liathach is the greatest challenge to Torridon 's visitors and only those of more than average energy and experience should accept it . |
| 16 | Their insistence on selling only complete packages made the cost of buying the guides too expensive , but at the same time individual purchasing libraries have often gone on to modify the guides for local use ; and this is the greatest block to co-ordinated and centralized production — librarians prefer to prepare their own guides , tailor-made for their particular local needs . |
| 17 | Fire is the greatest danger to new forests and woodlands . |
| 18 | How is the 1980 election to be interpreted ? |
| 19 | But this shift of focus , which as we shall see came about with remarkable suddenness through the 1920s , is the primary clue to the shape of more recent developments . |
| 20 | And in my opinion , and in that of many other people , is the philosophical analysis to which he then proceeded , often bears the mark of a certain superficiality . |
| 21 | ‘ This is the straight answer to the Wave brief , ’ says Henry . |
| 22 | Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ? |
| 23 | Tired legs , sore feet and shortage of time should not deter an inspection of the unusual sight at the rear of the now unoccupied farmhouse here : in the backyard , only a short way from the buildings , is the impressive entrance to Bruntscar Cave which penetrates half a mile under the hillside . |
| 24 | ‘ The advantage to be derived by the lower class of your parishioners in case of accident or severe illness from such an asylum is sufficiently obvious as is the great saving to the parish rates ’ . |
| 25 | In the course of his career , Darwin had in fact turned away from the idea that the physical environment is the crucial factor to which species must adapt . |
| 26 | Powerful , effective , versatile and chemical-free , there 's no doubt that your Steamatic is the all-round answer to today 's household cleaning . |
| 27 | The christian name of ‘ Shallowe of Hollendon ’ , owner of a small property in Singleborough , Bucks. , is illegible , and since this is the sole reference to him one is almost tempted to dismiss him as a fictional character ! |
| 28 | In all the many pages of that novel , it is the sole interior to be described at any length , and in such detail that Richardson even mentions the rusty heads of tacks retaining scraps of a former wallpaper . |
| 29 | Geraldine Frances , a plain , shy teenager is the sole heiress to the family fortune . |
| 30 | Since companies are allowed to pay out dividends only from that week 's stakes , market share is the sole key to the magic lure of vast prize money . |