Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 2 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 9 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 10 | One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since May 1980 , nearly 1,250 applicants have been to the board . |
| 14 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 15 | Insp Ken Madison , of Darlington police , said officers had been to the scene of the crash but left when they were satisfied no one was hurt in the collision . |
| 16 | All our efforts had been to no avail . |
| 17 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some of the members have been to the shop since then . |
| 20 | Detectives have been to the island , which covers 39 square miles , three times since they were called in by Christopher Turner , the former Governor . |
| 21 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 24 | Most of the increase in illegitimate births has been to women who are in some kind of informal union , not living on their own holding the baby . |
| 25 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 26 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 27 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 28 | a ) How many students have been to Jamaica but not Trinidad ? |
| 29 | The best thing of all , however , is the inspiration these women have been to others . |
| 30 | His sons have been to every place and farm along the Tummel . |