Example sentences of "[adj] [be] to [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Excursions : The most popular are to Salzburg and to Vienna , both beautiful , elegant cities , steeped in history and culture with lots to see .
2 This is to Kendal
3 This was to John Heiman , the Defence Secretary , the only other person present .
4 This was to Eleanor of Aquitaine and it was celebrated just eight weeks alter her first marriage , to King Louis VII of France , had been annulled .
5 One major change for 1991 is to Q.T. Insurance .
6 The excursion in June 1888 was to Warrenpoint and the total cost for all the children for the day was £3-15-8 ( £3.77 ) .
7 He received his certificate which stated : ‘ These are to Certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a resident pupil for 18 months and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art ’ .
8 One of these is to Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the border of Switzerland and Austria .
9 But the world of 1806 was to Captain Marryat what the world of 1935 is to us , at this moment , a middling sort of place , where there is nothing out of the way in a sailor with a pigtail or in a bumboat woman volleying hoarse English .
10 Ideologically , Soviet leaders may have discovered that they may be as much hostage to Eastern Europe 's Communists as the latter are to Moscow .
11 But he would n't recognize how important it all was to Eva .
12 ‘ IT IS a toss-up whether Norman Fowler was a bigger embarrassment to Group 4 than Group 4 was to Norman Fowler .
13 Two options seem common , the first being to Miami and then on to La Paz direct or via one or two other stops , though usually without changing planes .
14 First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop .
15 The first was to Duncan the Drunken in Barking who agreed to do me a weekend deal on a Transit in exchange for a loan of Armstrong .
16 James Sadler made only one subsequent aerial visit to the region , that being to Deken 's Lodge , Pickworth , near Stamford , which was the termination point for the first flight from Nottingham made in 1813 .
17 When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry .
18 That was to Bridget
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