Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 2 | This cultural factor has been to the commercial benefit of West Germany since the ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1950s . |
| 3 | The first foreign visit had been to the Pyrenees in 1952 — a fortnight for £10 : an age and a world away from today . |
| 4 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | More recently , the primary threat has been to the highlanders ' land , although coerced labour and unequal trade continue . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " Who shall say what the Soviet Union has been to us ? " , wrote Andre Gide in 1936 . |
| 19 | Although the original intention had been to formally assess the new curriculum before deciding to extend it to the rest of the school , various forces came into play to ensure that by 1987 the entire 160 strong intake was studying the new pathway course . |
| 20 | Our original plan had been to film on Lake Karakul , 50 miles to the north-west . |
| 21 | But our whole band have been to college — they were the first people in our familiar to have been able to get any further education . |
| 22 | George Fox 's original appeal had been to the poor , but soon the Friends were led by the ‘ respectable classes ’ in the same manner as the other early denominations . |