Example sentences of "[verb] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 32 | really s I 've been to dental hygiene cos I thought |
| 33 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 34 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 35 | Remember we keep talking about tourism as being fashionable , it 's fashionable to say you 've been to certain destinations . |
| 36 | Yeah bear i I mean both of us sitting here , we 've been to social functions on this areas |
| 37 | So ghastly , that arrogance , that insensitivity of boys who 've been to public schools . |
| 38 | If those who have been to Arab feasts ever wonder what happens to all that food and ‘ tut-tut ’ over the waste , forget it . |
| 39 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 40 | ‘ We have been to other schools . |
| 41 | Calls for innovation and for productivity related ‘ intensive ’ growth have been to little avail . |
| 42 | In the 1990s the Bar likes to proclaim that all that has changed , that it is no longer dominated by men who have been to public schools followed by Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 43 | The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph . |
| 44 | He 's been to banned from Hounslow , banned from Kingston . |
| 45 | Her singing voice is far more impressive than her talking voice ( she 's been to musical theatre college ) , and the songs will be pure pop — ’ Let's be honest , that 's my audience , ’ she says . |