Example sentences of "has [been] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 2 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 3 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 5 | In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply . |
| 6 | ‘ Your lady , ’ he said warmly , ‘ has been to me the kindest of hostesses and gentlest of nurses . |
| 7 | He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions — at least he has been to me . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’ |
| 9 | " Who shall say what the Soviet Union has been to us ? " , wrote Andre Gide in 1936 . |
| 10 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 11 | Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you . |
| 12 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |