Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 3 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All our efforts had been to no avail . |
| 7 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 8 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 9 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | I advised , my opinion reinforced by Dennis Lloyd , that there was plainly a breach of copyright , since the reports published were to a substantial extent verbatim accounts of the meetings reproduced from the minutes , the copyright of which belonged to the National Executive , and that a judicial remedy should be sought as soon as possible . |
| 14 | The Eye Hospital was entering a team for the 10-mile ‘ fun run ’ to be held on 24th September and all monies raised were to be given to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association . |