Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second factor must certainly have been the challenge to Alhred from Aethelred , son of Aethelwald Moll , who was crowned in Alhred 's place ‘ with great honour ’ . |
| 2 | How sensitive are the answers to varying assumptions about how families pool resources ? |
| 3 | For the experimental scientist such discordances and incongruities are the spur to new discoveries and lead to the development of new theories — or so at least we like to think . |
| 4 | Staff are the key to effective crime prevention . |
| 5 | Seductive simplicity and relaxed elegance are the key to modern chic — and nobody flaunts it better than the French . |
| 6 | Conservatives believe that high standards in education and training are the key to personal opportunity and national success . |
| 7 | INPUT SAYS SERVICES ARE THE KEY TO EUROPEAN DESKTOP BUSINESS |
| 8 | And , fourthly , because of these other limitations local authorities , especially those in the inner cities , usually end up trying to attract or influence the behaviour of a pool of small firms , which they often justify by stating that small firms are the key to local regeneration . |
| 9 | Their elegant and economical forms are the solutions to innumerable puzzles of how to plan and build animals and plants ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , using archaeological and documentary evidence , it can be postulated that , in parts of west Somerset in particular , present-day settlements are the successors to prehistoric and Romano-British predecessors , even if not actually on the same site . |
| 11 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 12 | We 're close to North Yorkshire , North-West Durham and the Cleveland Hills , and we think we can exploit the fact that Darlington can be the base to various avenues of interest in the North . ’ |
| 13 | Some geographers have considered this aspect and we will look at their work in a moment , but our basic concern , when considering settlement sites , is more likely to be the relationship to local land uses and access to resources . |
| 14 | Such deviations will often be the clue to special interpretations associated with traditional figures of speech such as metaphor , metonymy , synecdoche , paradox , irony If such tropes occur , what kind of special interpretation is involved ( eg metaphor can be classified as personifying , animizing , concretizing , synaesthetic , etc ) ? |
| 15 | The day care centre can often be the link to other agencies when special needs are identified . |
| 16 | Sometimes apparent laziness , or ‘ playing-up ’ can be the response to visual demands that the pupil is having difficulty in coping with . |
| 17 | And I do believe , because this region 's economy has a broader spread , that it will be the small- to medium-sized companies which will lead to economic recovery ’ . |
| 18 | I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory . |
| 19 | PLANTATIONS of trees in the tropics may not be the answer to global warming , Friends of the Earth have warned . |
| 20 | The big banks hope it will be the answer to organised card crime , which is moving into the country in a big way . |
| 21 | Yes , young Kapil could be the answer to Indian prayers : a bowler with real pace , variation and powers of endurance . |
| 22 | Centralisation and nationalisation were to be the means to full employmcnt . |
| 23 | The course of this debate will be the key to developing managers in the 1990s . |
| 24 | Educational sessions must be the key to successful , interesting divisional meetings and I am grateful to the National Educational Committee ( I wo n't single out the Chairman , , that would be unfair ) for being the stimulus which resulted in an increase in educational sessions at meetings during the past twelve months . |
| 25 | A team at Pittsburgh realised that the fact that a move need only be proven bad once could be the key to enormous time savings . |
| 26 | ALEX FERGUSON leads Manchester United out at Wembley tomorrow hoping that the Rumbelows Cup final can be the key to English football 's greatest prize . |
| 27 | Markets were buoyant and the maintenance of a high level of demand was thought to be the key to sustained prosperity . |
| 28 | There 'll be different numbers , it wo n't be a football match , it might be weights of pizzas , it might be the length to french sticks , you know it could be anything . |
| 29 | The toast to the Divisions has for some time been a ‘ musical geography tour ’ and this time people present were treated to an extra musical item being the toast to National Office , whereby gave an immaculate rendition of The Hippopotamus Song . |
| 30 | What were the points to professional telephone behaviour . |