Example sentences of "have been to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 2 | In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence . |
| 3 | Anyone who has been to a concert by Fine Arts Brass will know the group combines virtuosity with versatility , playing music of all styles with equal flair and placing the emphasis very much on entertainment . |
| 4 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 5 | The only " reason " given by Anderson — " I changed my mind " ( p. 87 ) — clearly violates the maxim of quantity in providing too little information , and his excuse , that he " did n't realize it mattered " , violates the maxim of quality because , being a Cambridge don who has been to a number of overseas conferences , he will be well aware of the procedures involved . |
| 6 | Erm really this has been to a large extent I think a parish council initiative and I 'm sure all the members of this council are enthusiastic supporters of grassroots democracy in the role of parish councils . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 8 | Said he 'd been to a party . |
| 9 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 10 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
| 11 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 12 | We 'd been to a party with Nancy and Frank . |
| 13 | She 'd been to a lot of trouble finding something original , something you 'd enjoy . ’ |
| 14 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 15 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 16 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 17 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 18 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 19 | Not many children are likely to have been to a circus ; but although they 're not as glamorous or as attractive as they once were , they still hold a fascination for children . |
| 20 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 21 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 22 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |
| 23 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 24 | In 1902 he founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club and although this was snobbishly restricted to those who had been to a British public school , the club was instrumental in establishing winter sports as a popular type of holiday . |
| 25 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 26 | Princess Diana had been to a sumptuous EC dinner of salmon and pheasant on the Royal Yacht Britannia . |
| 27 | Mr Leslie had been to a railway staff party in a pub called the Flint , which is situated across the road from High Wycombe Station . |
| 28 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 29 | Dynasticism was not dead ; for some rulers , promoting family interests was as important as it had been to a Tudor or a Valois . |
| 30 | Alix herself had been to a May Ball or two in Cambridge , in her dancing days . |