Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't , we , I do n't even know where Penny want 's to be buried . |
| 2 | The final series of the Hudson and Halls show is to be screened by the BBC later this year . |
| 3 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 4 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 5 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 6 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 7 | A TELECOMMUNICATIONS link is to be established between students in Darlington and their counterparts in France . |
| 8 | For example , people working here in acoustics and radiation physics never know which SERC committee will finally examine their applications — some of our recent applications have been to the committees for Biology , Chemistry , Chemical Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Polymer Engineering , the joint SERC/SSRC committee or even sent off to ARC . |
| 9 | Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running . |
| 10 | I am aware , however , that surveying techniques of the last 150 years have been to standards of accuracy of centimetres over the same sort of distance and landscape . |
| 11 | Since May 1980 , nearly 1,250 applicants have been to the board . |
| 12 | But our whole band have been to college — they were the first people in our familiar to have been able to get any further education . |
| 13 | The consequences of this latter factor have been to at times lead to the definition of community care as ‘ non-hospital care ’ ( Parker , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | The last thing most of these people want is to be given reasons for changing their minds . |
| 15 | ‘ These good people have been to an enormous amount of trouble on my behalf , and I am sure I shall be quite unable to do justice to their generous provision . ’ |
| 16 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 17 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 18 | Most records of movement have been to the west , which may not be significant . |
| 19 | In the past nine years , he says , he and Kinnock have been to hell and back together but ( unless Sisyphus intrude these columns again ) paradise now seems tantalisingly close . |
| 20 | Birmingham and the Fitzwilliam 's watercolours have been to Japan , the Victoria and Albert 's to East Germany , and the British Museum 's to Cleveland and North Carolina , a tour which resulted in the book under review . |
| 21 | Brothers Jim and Dixie have been to the fore during Maghery 's charge into the decider and Lurgan aces Clan na gael know that they must combat this dual threat if they are to succeed . |
| 22 | Some of the members have been to the shop since then . |
| 23 | It will be the first time that politicians from Eastern Europe have been to dinner in the Speaker 's apartments . |
| 24 | Detectives have been to the island , which covers 39 square miles , three times since they were called in by Christopher Turner , the former Governor . |
| 25 | ( a ) How meaningful would the first statement have been to you without this additional information ? |
| 26 | Calls for innovation and for productivity related ‘ intensive ’ growth have been to little avail . |
| 27 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 28 | The largest increases have been to women aged 20–24 ; about 4 in 10 of their births were outside marriage in 1989 , more than four times the proportion in 1971 . |
| 29 | Well nowadays I do n't know whether you should record this or not , but nowadays erm they 'll not go unless they 've been to the bar or something before that well unfortunately Leslie 's not able to drink now , he ca n't after his operation , he ca n't take , it just upsets him altogether so he ca n't go to the bar and all the rest of the company have been to the bar and they 're in a different mood than what Leslie is , so Leslie 'll just not go , and it just , it 's kind of , cut him off |
| 30 | a ) How many students have been to Jamaica but not Trinidad ? |