Example sentences of "been [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nose had been smashed , the throat was terribly bruised , and there had been attempts to both burn and boil the remains . |
| 2 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 3 | In 1837 there had been improvements to the dressing floors , and it was then considered likely that every two months about 400 tons of merchantable ore and concentrate would soon be a reality , though the low price of copper prevailing at that time was felt to be something of a drawback . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 6 | There 's been damage to farm machinery as well … ’ |
| 7 | In the years between the wars G. K. Chesterton and Evelyn Waugh had been converts to Rome . |
| 8 | At Eton , he had been fag to a charmless older boy who had wasted no time in introducing Henry to the joys of homosexuality . |
| 9 | So I really can say I 've been Cake-Maker to the king ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 12 | Why had he been witness to these events ? |
| 13 | We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . |
| 14 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 15 | But there was more to it than that : as the only daughter and elder sister to Nathan and Matthew , she had become far more involved in the running of the household , and had been witness to her mother 's frequent pregnancies , miscarriages and confinements . |
| 16 | ‘ When Constanza got there she was told that her mother had made a mistake with her sleeping pills , her maid had been witness to that . |
| 17 | Both had worked closely with Laker ; been witness to — and victims of — his downfall ; both had much to say about the pitfalls Branson should , at all costs , avoid . |
| 18 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 19 | The fifty pence went unclaimed and all had been witness to the head 's control of events . |
| 20 | He too had seen Alfred departing with Beatrice , but unlike Alice he had followed them , and had been witness to Alfred 's humiliating rejection . |
| 21 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 22 | These houses have been homes to squattors for the past 4 years . |
| 23 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 24 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 25 | However , some reports suggested that there had been opposition to Saddam 's decision to invade . |
| 26 | Apart from visits to the local hospital , there have been trips to St Thomas ' Hospital in London , where Graham is seen regularly by one of the world 's most eminent dermatologists . |
| 27 | Persons who have knowingly been parties to the carrying on of the company 's business to defraud creditors . |
| 28 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 29 | The Richardson boys had been visitors to her house for a long time . |
| 30 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |