Example sentences of "had [be] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Often there was scant evidence of academic activity , and this prompted criticism from some of those users who had been to mainstream schools .
2 Vichy , Spa , Baden-Baden , Aix-les-Bains , but above all the great international spas of the Habsburg monarchy , Gastein , Marienbad , Karlsbad , etc. , were to nineteenth-century Europe what Bath had been to eighteenth-century England , fashionable gatherings justified by the excuse of drinking some form of disagreeable mineral waters or immersing oneself in some form of liquid under the control of a benevolent medical dictator .
3 Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow .
4 A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education .
5 Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home .
6 She had been to Nice countless times .
7 We had been to Euro Disney and had a toy gun for Matthew .
8 Of the Bank 's new lending in fiscal 1991 , $5,200 million had been to Latin America and the Caribbean , $3,400 million to Africa , $7,500 million to Asian countries , and $6,600 million to Europe , the Middle East and North Africa .
9 Of the fathers of the boarders in these schools , 92 per cent were in the Registrar-General 's Class I or II , and 52 per cent had been to Public Schools themselves .
10 In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party .
11 The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither .
12 From a random group of 36 judges of the Court of Appeal and the High Court , he found that 31 had been to public schools ( 86 per cent ) and 33 to Oxford or Cambridge ( 92 per cent ) .
13 On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off …
14 It was obvious that Bonard had been to considerable trouble to arrange for the members of his class to meet people with similar interests to their own .
15 Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian .
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