Example sentences of "[noun] has be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 2 | Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches . |
| 3 | What the district around Takrit was to Saddam , Oltenia has been to the Ceauşescus . |
| 4 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 7 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 8 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 9 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 10 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 11 | Success can be claimed in this area in the arrival of some new operators in the market such as Centric Pub Company , Marr Taverns , Scorpio Inns , Discovery Inns and Enterprise Inns , whose formation has been to specifically run multiple freehouse operations . |
| 12 | Congress , G M B has been to the forefront of the campaign to ensure that the laws of this country are brought into line with European legislation . |
| 13 | A assumes that B knows where A is ; A and B are not in the same place ; neither A nor B are in Edinburgh ; A thinks B has been to A's place before 5 . |
| 14 | Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb . |
| 15 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 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 traditional response of moral philosophy has been to narrow down each act to its pure and innermost core , an act of pure will that , alone , is susceptible of moral assessment . |
| 18 | Central News South has been to South America to see at first hand the lives that Oxfam hopes to improve . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’ |
| 20 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 21 | One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 24 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 25 | That price has been to the moon and back again , helped by the Hunt brothers from Texas , who tried to corner the market and found that it , in fact , cornered them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Simon Garrett has been to Suffolk , home of Greene King , to report on the battle of the brewers |
| 29 | King 's head for funny business has him periodically indulge in what Lewis describes as the ‘ tactics of fear ’ and the latest example has been to publicly demean Maloney 's management of Lewis . |
| 30 | " Who shall say what the Soviet Union has been to us ? " , wrote Andre Gide in 1936 . |