Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 2 | The final series of the Hudson and Halls show is to be screened by the BBC later this year . |
| 3 | Copyright-cleared background music recordings can be obtained by mail order , and the addresses to contact are to be found in the relevant hobby magazines . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 6 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 9 | One method which has previously been tried , albeit unsuccessfully , seeks to invoke principles of international law that would allegedly relieve taxpayers from their liability to pay tax on the ground that their assessments are rendered invalid by the unlawful purposes to which the taxes levied are to be applied . |
| 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 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 12 | A TELECOMMUNICATIONS link is to be established between students in Darlington and their counterparts in France . |
| 13 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 14 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 15 | One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Since May 1980 , nearly 1,250 applicants have been to the board . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All our efforts had been to no avail . |
| 22 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Some of the members have been to the shop since then . |
| 25 | Detectives have been to the island , which covers 39 square miles , three times since they were called in by Christopher Turner , the former Governor . |
| 26 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |