Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe 's regional economic development programme has been designated objective to status to Plymouth . |
| 2 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 3 | Her last post had been General Secretary to the Association of Headmistresses . |
| 4 | Two other manufacturing industries illustrate how market-seeking investors have been shifting attention to efficiency-seeking investments as competition has intensified . |
| 5 | Apple has been successful selling to schools in other countries , but has so far failed to make an impact in Japan ( apart from selling to private schools ) . |
| 6 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 7 | Bill had been enough times to a morgue . |
| 8 | Patrick had been Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Ted Heath 's Government and had been successful as Secretary of State for both Social Services and Trade and Industry . |
| 9 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
| 10 | During the last 30 years , he claims , too few North-West boys have been one-cap wonders to ‘ keep the natives happy . ’ |
| 11 | During the last 30 years , he claims , too few North-West boys have been one-cap wonders to ‘ keep the natives happy . ’ |
| 12 | EMI has been busy adding to its ‘ Beecham Edition ’ . |
| 13 | The prosecution contended that Rashid had been chief lieutenant to Abu Ibrahim , leader of the May 15 guerrilla group . |