Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have been to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In welcoming this commitment , Mr Bell pointed out that the substantially greater freedom which U.K. insurers have enjoyed in product design and in investment policy has been to the distinct benefit if their policy-holders in the past . |
| 2 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’ |
| 5 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 6 | As outlined in para 3.3 below , the City Code applies to takeovers of certain categories of private companies ( broadly where the equity share capital has been to some extent publicly held at any time within the ten years prior to the offer ) . |
| 7 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |
| 8 | Central News South has been to South America to see at first hand the lives that Oxfam hopes to improve . |
| 9 | It is now widely recognised that the impact of overall EEC farm policy has been to further widen the differential between the advantaged and disadvantaged areas . |
| 10 | Thirty veteran officers from the Australian destroyer Warramungu had been to a re-union in Perth . |
| 11 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 12 | The first generation approach to interface design within the UGIX project has been to prototype using Hypercard for the Apple Macintosh , where the Hypercard application ( complete with in-built communications software ) acts as a client to a host processor ‘ running the GIS application software . |
| 13 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 14 | This was the first time Athelstan had been to Benedicta 's house , a two-storied building which stood alone , an alleyway on either side and a garden beyond . |