Example sentences of "[is] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here 's to us girls , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Here 's to you , toe , she said , raising her long clear glass of white wine and mineral water , where the ice cubes had long since melted . |
| 3 | Here 's to Schubert ! ’ |
| 4 | For as Ambrose Bierce said , ‘ Here 's to woman . |
| 5 | If that 's to be counted eccentricity , then Evan was an eccentric . |
| 6 | And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ? |
| 7 | It 's to be found in From the Life ( 1944 ) : one hundred sheets of wartime austerity paper to which Phyllis Bottome commits ‘ six studies of my friends ’ — that 's to say , Alfred Adler , Max Beerbohm , Ivor Novello , Sara Delano Roosevelt , Ezra Pound , and Margaret MacDonald Bottome ( this last the writer 's American grandmother who in her forties became an influential evangelical orator ) . |
| 8 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave Thatcher 's visit to Moscow and Kinnock 's to Washington drew attention to the issue . |
| 9 | 93 HAIR 'S TO YOU ! |
| 10 | HAIR 'S TO YOU ! |
| 11 | ‘ Every time you take me for a meal , it 's to a non-smoking restaurant , ’ said Bob in a somewhat annoyed tone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | America 's consumer-price inflation slowed to 5.7% in the year to January , and Britain 's to 9.0% . |
| 14 | Yet eventually , like other empires that outlive their time , from Charlemagne 's to the Habsburgs ' , shrink it will . |
| 15 | Helped in the crucial early years by Brian Close , his — and Garner 's — loyalty to their adopted country became every bit as great as Clive Lloyd 's to Lancashire . |
| 16 | As a monthly , the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores , nor preview the week 's to matches . |
| 17 | ‘ Here 's to our first drink together , ’ said Christopher . |
| 18 | WHAT 'S TO BE DONE ? |
| 19 | It 's to be expected , it 's what men do . ’ |
| 20 | I think a lot of us want to be noticed — I know I do — and when we get dressed up , or put make-up on , it is n't to hide behind the make-up , like some people think , it 's to be noticed , to say : Look at me ! |
| 21 | She says she 's to be in Leningrad for a day or two — she 's on location at Lake Baikal — to meet Mrs Reagan on her flying visit to the Hermitage . |
| 22 | Of the amercements for offences in the Forest of Dean , for example , Brooke 's and Wynne 's penalty was reduced in 1636 to £12,000 , and Sir John Winter 's to £4,000 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Commentary : Here 's to the wobbly bits |
| 25 | Th ’ Almighty 's sacred Will 's to you reveal 'd ; |
| 26 | ‘ I hope that 's to your liking , ’ Mr Sanderson said to her . |
| 27 | ‘ Here 's to freedom ! ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ Here 's to friendship . |
| 29 | Furthermore , since the Crown had earlier inherited Hatfield subject to the maintenance of rights of common , it was not entirely the king 's to either sell or drain . |
| 30 | It was the first real ballet of John 's to be seen at Covent Garden , since his dances for operas had so far all been on a small scale , and it was far from being a success . |