Example sentences of "have been to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 2 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 3 | Ten years on and there is conjecture surrounding the possibility of the government of Sweden , and possibly that of The Netherlands , banning from participation in a sporting event anybody who has been to South Africa . |
| 4 | Central News South has been to South America to see at first hand the lives that Oxfam hopes to improve . |
| 5 | To conclude , the fact that there has been to date remarkably little progress towards an independent discipline of material culture is due , at least in part , to the particular history of that field within anthropology . |
| 6 | Simon Garrett has been to Suffolk , home of Greene King , to report on the battle of the brewers |
| 7 | A assumes that B knows where A is ; A and B are not in the same place ; neither A nor B are in Edinburgh ; A thinks B has been to A's place before 5 . |
| 8 | Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb . |
| 9 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 10 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 11 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 12 | A young woman from Lyons reported that she refuses to visit Paris without her friend who has been to Paris more often and understands the Parisians ' sign language better . |
| 13 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 14 | Father Pat Buckley , from Larne in Northern Ireland , has been to Scotland on three occasions to tie the knot for couples whom the church refuses to marry because one or both have been divorced . |
| 15 | The historical tendency , certainly since the end of the war , has been to de-skill this function by using NC machines . |
| 16 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 17 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 18 | And Tim has been to nursery today . |
| 19 | For Alan , whose father Bill worked at Capenhurst for 24 years , has been to Russia where he was part of a group of four handicapped people on an expedition to climb the 1,800ft Mount Elbius in South Georgia . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 22 | Meanwhile , general manager resins at Silvertown , has been to Nippon Paint in Japan on a fact-finding visit . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Beasant has been to hell and back since he was publicly blamed by manager Ian Porterfield for Saturday 's 3-2 home defeat by Norwich , and was told he was finished at the club . |
| 26 | Once one has been to war , one has salt for the rest of one 's life . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin . |
| 29 | Race horse trainer … easy life … you 've got to be joking … steeplechasing is all of life always has been to David Nicholson … he was born and bred … turned out and trained on the gallops at Prestbury … |
| 30 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |