Example sentences of "have been to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Anyone who has been to such a gathering knows that the fun-loving atmosphere of these occasions is not ideal to hammer home messages about personal safety . |
| 3 | More pointedly , such analyses are concerned with measuring the effects of wage movements ; the causes have to be sought in the actual , real-world process of industrial relations — an environment as uncongenial to economists as it has been to many industrial managers . |
| 4 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 5 | Erm this has been to Great Parndon Committee so it 's been through the neighbourhoods er , community cycle and there has been an exhibition following that committee on Three Hills , which was very well attended by by tenants and residents and main feelings coming out of that was that erm the residents were keen for this to happen , certainly wanted something to happen erm er , on the estate particularly demolition of the four empty blocks . |
| 6 | Tony Ward , spokesman for the British Athletic Federation , said : ‘ Joan has been to two world and two European Championships and one Olympics . |
| 7 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 8 | Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV . |
| 9 | A team of wildlife biologists from the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has been to able study the Javanese rhinoceros , considered the world 's rarest large mammal , by recording them with hidden cameras . |
| 10 | Ask anyone who has been to previous festivals and they will tell you not to miss it . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them |
| 14 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 15 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 16 | ‘ Because you 'd been to Nice . |
| 17 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 18 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 19 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 20 | But one , one of the coloured chaps where Tasha works said he was he 'd been to one of these Blind Dates , he was on but we have n't come across him yet have we ? |
| 21 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 22 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 23 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 24 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 25 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 26 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 27 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 28 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 29 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 30 | may it have been to some such vestibule , |