Example sentences of "[vb -s] be to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 2 | Central News South has been to South America to see at first hand the lives that Oxfam hopes to improve . |
| 3 | To conclude , the fact that there has been to date remarkably little progress towards an independent discipline of material culture is due , at least in part , to the particular history of that field within anthropology . |
| 4 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 5 | The historical tendency , certainly since the end of the war , has been to de-skill this function by using NC machines . |
| 6 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 7 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 8 | And Tim has been to nursery today . |
| 9 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 10 | The first generation approach to interface design within the UGIX project has been to prototype using Hypercard for the Apple Macintosh , where the Hypercard application ( complete with in-built communications software ) acts as a client to a host processor ‘ running the GIS application software . |
| 11 | Beasant has been to hell and back since he was publicly blamed by manager Ian Porterfield for Saturday 's 3-2 home defeat by Norwich , and was told he was finished at the club . |
| 12 | Once one has been to war , one has salt for the rest of one 's life . |
| 13 | To cross the Atlantic in the early Fifties from the modest hopes of Britain to the United , Euphoric , You-name-it-they-had-it States was to court vertigo . |
| 14 | ‘ Coppell 's regarded as intelligent because he 's been to university , ’ the Irishman said . |
| 15 | ‘ She thinks she 's a radical 'cause she 's been to West Belfast once and scribbled Bernadette Devlin 's name in pencil on the Falls Wall ! ’ |
| 16 | For a man who sounds like he 's been to hell and back and been burned along the way , Mould has returned to heal old wounds . |
| 17 | " Nobody , " Harkness answered , coming forward , " but he 's been to hospital with that hand , and if you cane him on it , he 'll have to go again . |
| 18 | He come in , his eye 's right out here , and it 's streaming with water and he says he 's been to hospital , they dripped some water in it , washed it out must be mine that , what do you reckon ? |
| 19 | Yeah he 's been to solicitor as well . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's been to circulation and advertising and now he 's with the editor . ’ |