Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The best thing of all , however , is the inspiration these women have been to others . |
| 4 | a ) How many students have been to Jamaica but not Trinidad ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 10 | Since May 1980 , nearly 1,250 applicants have been to the board . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 " . |