Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 3 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 4 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |
| 5 | For twenty years the 16+ has been to educationalists what the Irish Question has been to politicians for somewhat longer : it has consumed enormous energy , made and destroyed reputations , absorbed and dissipated creativity and made most men and women with common sense as well as intelligence adopt the stance of peripheral critics . |
| 6 | Central News South has been to South America to see at first hand the lives that Oxfam hopes to improve . |
| 7 | This covered 69 judges of the Supreme Court , House of Lords and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and showed that 76 per cent had attended ‘ major public schools ’ ( not further defined ) and the same percentage had been to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 8 | Our original plan had been to film on Lake Karakul , 50 miles to the north-west . |
| 9 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 10 | Hitherto , Blackpool 's aim had been to crush-load its trams to bursting-point , now the object was to give them a comfortable ride for their money . |
| 11 | But our whole band have been to college — they were the first people in our familiar to have been able to get any further education . |
| 12 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 13 | His last call had been to Frick , the man he knew that he must convince . |
| 14 | ‘ How great a friend material substance hath been to atheists in all ages , were needless to relate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was assumed that many who appeared on the box had been to drama school . |
| 17 | An earlier draft had been to George and Rowland Wilson but the latter 's name does not appear on the final copy . |
| 18 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 19 | His sister had been to St Saviour 's . |
| 20 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 21 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 22 | His elder brother had been to Yugoslavia , one of his sisters to Greece . |
| 23 | The Cap'n had been to Jarman House once … would be coming again more than likely . |
| 24 | The Bishop had been to Woodborough Junior once , to take prayers . |
| 25 | Her mother had been to Falmouth shopping . |
| 26 | One woman , whose son is an epileptic , said her son had been to hospitals in Newcastle , Middlesbrough , Northallerton , Oxford , Sedgewick near Kendal , and Cookridge near Leeds , before Thornton Lodge . |