Example sentences of "has [been] [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Analysts such as Anderson ( 1984 ) , Frisby ( 1985 ) and Callinicos ( 1985 ) have thus aggressively disputed Lyotard 's famous pronouncement that the contemporary scepticism before ‘ metanarratives ’ has been midwife to the birth of the postmodern condition . |
2 | In the personal social services field there has been reference to the need to encourage self-help and voluntary action to keep down the cost of providing professional social care . |
3 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
4 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
5 | Baldersdale , one of the tributary valleys of Teesdale , has been home to the various branches of the Hauxwell family for several ( maybe countless ) generations . |
6 | Carter are touring America in a huge tour bus , which has been home to the ten-strong crew and band for a month-and-a-half . |
7 | The Manor ground has been home to the club for the last 67 years . |
8 | A spooky tale about a woman who returns to the stately which has been home to the Stafford Dynasty for hundreds of years . |
9 | Aged 38 , Lina has been secretary to the general manager for three years . |
10 | There has been restoration to the woodwork here . |
11 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
12 | However , the Bank of England has been party to the arrangements for placing gold and dollar reserves with the EMCF on a three-month temporary basis in exchange for ECUs . |
13 | In a number of cases there has been recourse to the courts by parents anxious to secure appropriate provision for their child in the face of local authority opposition . |