Example sentences of "[verb] [been] to " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me .
2 I see you 've been to the hospital , or something like that .
3 Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ?
4 I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party
5 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 .
6 Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV .
7 What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date .
8 At the end of the Principles , Berkeley reminds us that his ‘ main drift and design ’ has been to ‘ inspire my readers with a pious sense of the presence of God ’ .
9 The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’
10 Tony Ward , spokesman for the British Athletic Federation , said : ‘ Joan has been to two world and two European Championships and one Olympics .
11 It is now widely recognised that the impact of overall EEC farm policy has been to further widen the differential between the advantaged and disadvantaged areas .
12 The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary .
13 Recently , SAVE has been to the rescue of a small but delightful Methodist chapel in a Lincolnshire village , to stop it being dismantled and shipped to the USA ; the Pavilion Theatre at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , which the local council had agreed to demolish ; and a popular Hampstead pub , Jack Straw 's Castle , which , though an important work by the architect Raymond Erith , the brewers wished to alter radically .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The frequent attention given to the management of river banks has made many unsuitable for the nesting of Kingfishers , and the frequent clearance of marginal vegetation has been to the detriment of species such as the Reed Bunting , Sedge and Reed Warbler .
18 The use has led to further commercialism of the land and has been to the detriment of the rural character of the area , they say .
19 That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party .
20 Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches .
21 Fair enough in the circumstances , but since the extended expiry date in 1952 , several growers have received individual concessions and , although the overall aim has been to gradually reduce the Gamay , the fact that at least 20 hectares exist , some 60 years after the law intent on banning the grape was first introduced , surely indicates that a certain laisser-faire attitude has been taken by successive administrations .
22 Since 1909 the House of Lords has been under attack , and whilst one objection which has been taken has been to the undemocratic nature of the House , that is not the whole story .
23 This need to attract statutory funding and support has necessitated many compromises , one of which has been to ‘ straighten ’ our image .
24 He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin .
25 What the district around Takrit was to Saddam , Oltenia has been to the Ceauşescus .
26 One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ .
27 She has been to school . ’
28 ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’
29 In welcoming this commitment , Mr Bell pointed out that the substantially greater freedom which U.K. insurers have enjoyed in product design and in investment policy has been to the distinct benefit if their policy-holders in the past .
30 Standard of restoration , including the cockpit and systems , has been to the highest levels .
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