Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final series of the Hudson and Halls show is to be screened by the BBC later this year . |
| 2 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 3 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 6 | A TELECOMMUNICATIONS link is to be established between students in Darlington and their counterparts in France . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since May 1980 , nearly 1,250 applicants have been to the board . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some of the members have been to the shop since then . |
| 12 | Detectives have been to the island , which covers 39 square miles , three times since they were called in by Christopher Turner , the former Governor . |
| 13 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | a ) How many students have been to Jamaica but not Trinidad ? |
| 16 | The best thing of all , however , is the inspiration these women have been to others . |
| 17 | His sons have been to every place and farm along the Tummel . |
| 18 | Richard Nelson , Director of Market Research Services at Campbell Soups All consumers want is to be told what is happening to their food , how safe it is and what is its quality … |
| 19 | Rightly or wrongly , what chairmen want is to narrow ownership back into the hands of rich individuals . |
| 20 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |