Example sentences of "has been to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV .
3 What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date .
4 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 ’ .
5 The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’
6 Tony Ward , spokesman for the British Athletic Federation , said : ‘ Joan has been to two world and two European Championships and one Olympics .
7 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 .
8 The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party .
16 Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 This need to attract statutory funding and support has necessitated many compromises , one of which has been to ‘ straighten ’ our image .
20 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 .
21 What the district around Takrit was to Saddam , Oltenia has been to the Ceauşescus .
22 One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ .
23 She has been to school . ’
24 ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’
25 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 .
26 Standard of restoration , including the cockpit and systems , has been to the highest levels .
27 Beasant has been to hell and back since he was publicly blamed by manager Ian Porterfield for Saturday 's 3-2 home defeat by Norwich , and was told he was finished at the club .
28 Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage .
29 More recently , the primary threat has been to the highlanders ' land , although coerced labour and unequal trade continue .
30 A young woman from Lyons reported that she refuses to visit Paris without her friend who has been to Paris more often and understands the Parisians ' sign language better .
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