Example sentences of "[is] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exported by Christie 's to the Getty Museum at £245,500 . |
| 2 | On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go . |
| 3 | Faldo 's money is destined for Capital Radio 's Help A London Child ; Lyle 's for Great Ormond Street Hospital ; Woosnam 's for the Oswestry branch of the N.S.P.C.C. and Hoch 's to the Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando , Florida . |
| 4 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |
| 5 | A double line of parked cars ran parallel to the pavements from the paper shop to the pub and the grocer 's to the hairdresser 's . |
| 6 | Much of the opposition to the ERA came from adherents to fundamentalist religious movements which take literally Biblical statements such as St Paul 's to the Ephesians — ‘ Wives , be subject to your husband as to the Lord ’ and ‘ As the church is subject to Christ , so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands ’ . |
| 7 | First though it 's to the Manor ground where tonight Oxford United 's annual general meeting has been reconvened and the news is Kevin Maxwell has been re-elected as chairman . |
| 8 | The woman 's face twitches like a tramp 's to the smell of soup . |
| 9 | Exported by Christie 's to the Louvre at £4,250,000 . |
| 10 | Mary was wearing her Brownie uniform , because there was Pack Meeting that evening , and she could go straight on from Granny Fordham 's to the Guide Hut through Enderley Park . |
| 11 | The castle 's to the left , ’ he continued . |
| 12 | And the sun … it 's to the left . |
| 13 | Jean-Claude 's went back to the time when the region was awash with oceans of rye , Otto 's to the time when the Demoiselles Tatin were still alive . |
| 14 | Nowadays ‘ Traditional English ’ can mean anything from the roasts and bread-and-butter puddings of old establishments like Rules or Simpson 's to the nouvelle Britannique cuisine of some of the newer , trendier restaurants . |
| 15 | P35 — At the end of the financial year the employer has to complete this return and send it with the completed P11 's to the Collector of Taxes . |
| 16 | Yet eventually , like other empires that outlive their time , from Charlemagne 's to the Habsburgs ' , shrink it will . |
| 17 | BANK ON A BANK THAT 'S TO THE POINT . |
| 18 | For Labour they want more people employed and that 's to the detriment of taxes and inflation . |
| 19 | It 's to the defending side 's hugh advantage if they can get their hands on the ball . |
| 20 | Chairman , if I may add this add this to the outline application , indicating that that 's to the rear of the site , the Mayor |
| 21 | A Lloyds bid would surely go to the Monopolies Commission , and might drag Hongkong 's bid with it — just as Standard Chartered 's bid accompanied Hongkong 's to the commission a decade ago . |
| 22 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 23 | no you 're alright , no you 're alright , it 's to the truth there 's nothing , who put that bag in there , ca n't put it in there , put it right , I 'll put it in , in a minute |
| 24 | They had both lost their fathers in the same year , Preston 's having fallen victim to leukaemia , William 's to the charms of Another Woman , and this had left William 's grandad as the only adult male presence in both households . |
| 25 | John Major was giving lunch in a private room at Langan 's to the French and German ambassadors . |
| 26 | Although the two men rode together to Granada , Rodrigo made the mistake of pitching his tents closer than Alfonso 's to the walls of the city . |
| 27 | Destroyed in 1666 was the memorial at Old St Paul 's to the poet , John Owen ( died 1622 ) [ q.v. ] , referred to by John Penkethman [ q.v. ] in 1624 in a famous phrase as by ‘ that most exquisite artist ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Our road 's to the right . ’ |
| 29 | Take note , when we say ‘ pop ’ it 's to the exclusion of such rock-minded types who happen to occupy prominent positions in the pop charts . |
| 30 | Well it 's a constant value and I know that it 's to the power of one . |