Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 2 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 3 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 4 | Ralph had planned it but they had all been party to his evil . |
| 5 | However , such regulatory mechanisms have always been anathema to the newspaper industry . |
| 6 | And although the ANC has promised to share power in the subsequent government , the country will then be a short hop from the full-blown majority rule that has always been anathema to many Afrikaners . |
| 7 | Indeed , the view that unemployment and crime are related has not always been anathema to the Tories . |
| 8 | There have always been objections to the family structure of Western industrial societies . |
| 9 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 10 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 11 | Persons who have knowingly been parties to the carrying on of the company 's business to defraud creditors . |
| 12 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |