Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 2 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 3 | His father had been to the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution at Taunton until the age of sixteen , when he had left and gone into the business . |
| 4 | Princess Diana had been to a sumptuous EC dinner of salmon and pheasant on the Royal Yacht Britannia . |
| 5 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 6 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 7 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 8 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 9 | I advised , my opinion reinforced by Dennis Lloyd , that there was plainly a breach of copyright , since the reports published were to a substantial extent verbatim accounts of the meetings reproduced from the minutes , the copyright of which belonged to the National Executive , and that a judicial remedy should be sought as soon as possible . |
| 10 | The cases to which Cooke P. referred are to the like effect . |
| 11 | George Fox 's original appeal had been to the poor , but soon the Friends were led by the ‘ respectable classes ’ in the same manner as the other early denominations . |