Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 2 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 3 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 4 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 5 | The terms were not satisfactory and by December of 1887 a further approach had been to made to Mr Quarry who suggested a price of £300 plus an annual ground rent of £2 . |
| 6 | In areas of population pressure a further rationale has been to ‘ write off ’ certain selected villages from a preservationist point of view and sacrifice them to expansion so that surrounding villages may remain ‘ unspoilt ’ . |
| 7 | The first foreign visit had been to the Pyrenees in 1952 — a fortnight for £10 : an age and a world away from today . |
| 8 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |
| 9 | The traditional response of moral philosophy has been to narrow down each act to its pure and innermost core , an act of pure will that , alone , is susceptible of moral assessment . |
| 10 | Fair enough in the circumstances , but since the extended expiry date in 1952 , several growers have received individual concessions and , although the overall aim has been to gradually reduce the Gamay , the fact that at least 20 hectares exist , some 60 years after the law intent on banning the grape was first introduced , surely indicates that a certain laisser-faire attitude has been taken by successive administrations . |
| 11 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 12 | That price has been to the moon and back again , helped by the Hunt brothers from Texas , who tried to corner the market and found that it , in fact , cornered them . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’ |
| 14 | The consequences of this latter factor have been to at times lead to the definition of community care as ‘ non-hospital care ’ ( Parker , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | J. was a good dancer having been to dancing classes as a small boy , and enjoyed them , in contrast to his younger brother who dug his heels in and absolutely refused to do anything so sissy . |
| 16 | More recently , the primary threat has been to the highlanders ' land , although coerced labour and unequal trade continue . |
| 17 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 18 | For twenty years the 16+ has been to educationalists what the Irish Question has been to politicians for somewhat longer : it has consumed enormous energy , made and destroyed reputations , absorbed and dissipated creativity and made most men and women with common sense as well as intelligence adopt the stance of peripheral critics . |
| 19 | Nearly 55 per cent of people who have been in higher education had been to the theatre in the survey period , but fewer than 19 per cent of those who left school at 16 . |
| 20 | ( a ) How meaningful would the first statement have been to you without this additional information ? |
| 21 | If the bees found the food by smell they would go to the nearest dish ; but , in fact they went to the original dish which the first bee had been to . |
| 22 | Again , all the dishes contained the same scented food , but the bees mainly went to the dish that the first bee had been to . |
| 23 | And there was no man in the kingdom who knew better than Owen what Hotspur 's disdainful answer had been to the council 's shameful proposal of murder in place of magnanimity . |
| 24 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 25 | This covered 69 judges of the Supreme Court , House of Lords and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and showed that 76 per cent had attended ‘ major public schools ’ ( not further defined ) and the same percentage had been to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 26 | Her friend 's well-known bluntness had been to the fore a few days ago , when she 'd discovered Laura sobbing quietly in her bedroom . |
| 27 | The frequent attention given to the management of river banks has made many unsuitable for the nesting of Kingfishers , and the frequent clearance of marginal vegetation has been to the detriment of species such as the Reed Bunting , Sedge and Reed Warbler . |
| 28 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 29 | The exemption does not apply if the equity share capital of the private company has been to some extent publicly held at any time within the ten years prior to the offer . |
| 30 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |