Example sentences of "have [be] [noun] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts such as Anderson ( 1984 ) , Frisby ( 1985 ) and Callinicos ( 1985 ) have thus aggressively disputed Lyotard 's famous pronouncement that the contemporary scepticism before ‘ metanarratives ’ has been midwife to the birth of the postmodern condition . |
| 2 | In the personal social services field there has been reference to the need to encourage self-help and voluntary action to keep down the cost of providing professional social care . |
| 3 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
| 4 | The Manor ground has been home to the club for the last 67 years . |
| 5 | A spooky tale about a woman who returns to the stately which has been home to the Stafford Dynasty for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | There has been restoration to the woodwork here . |
| 7 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
| 8 | However , the Bank of England has been party to the arrangements for placing gold and dollar reserves with the EMCF on a three-month temporary basis in exchange for ECUs . |
| 9 | In a number of cases there has been recourse to the courts by parents anxious to secure appropriate provision for their child in the face of local authority opposition . |
| 10 | The accused must have been party to the act which caused death , the law states . |
| 11 | The " ordinary reader " would infer that the " fixing " had involved the team as well as Packer , and that the captain of the team would have been party to the plot even though he had not played in the match . |
| 12 | Indeed , a factor of some importance in the slaying of Eorpwald may have been hostility to the way in which the kingdom of the eastern Angles had sunk under his rule to satellite status . |
| 13 | If so , would that have been vanity to the point of sin — or merely preserving the Lord 's gift ? |
| 14 | Doreen was a well known face on the fourth floor of Stamford House , having been secretary to a succession of board directors since she joined in 1959 . |
| 15 | Those who have actual memories of the year are unlikely to have been party to the Party that was supposed to be the mythical Swinging Sixties — one of the authors was still unafflicted by puberty while the other was into his third year in a sheet-metal factory , so we certainly were n't invited . |
| 16 | Klestil , 59 , a career diplomat who had been ambassador to the USA and permanent representative at the UN , would take over the presidency from Kurt Waldheim for a six-year term beginning on July 8 . |
| 17 | In 1837 there had been improvements to the dressing floors , and it was then considered likely that every two months about 400 tons of merchantable ore and concentrate would soon be a reality , though the low price of copper prevailing at that time was felt to be something of a drawback . |
| 18 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 19 | Before leaving London , Belle had been secretary to an hotel keeper and wine merchant , which should have provided useful experience for the venture . |
| 20 | His father , a Scotsman , had been gardener to a gentleman at Bromley before founding his own market gardening business at Deptford and , in the diary of Pehr Kalm , details about Miller 's early life are found . |
| 21 | David Checketts was his first private secretary , a former squadron leader in the RAF who had been equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh , and was the perfect person to help the Prince make the transition from the armed services into a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 22 | Both of her grandmothers had been ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother . |
| 23 | Viewers did not seem to be repelled by the complexities of procedures — in fact many were intrigued — but there had been reaction to the sight of empty benches . |
| 24 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 25 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 26 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
| 27 | The fifty pence went unclaimed and all had been witness to the head 's control of events . |
| 28 | Some Nonjurors , though never implicated in Jacobite intrigue , nevertheless were committed to the principle of a Stuart restoration — for example the cleric , Jeremy Collier , or the lawyer , Roger North , who had been attorney-general to the Queen in James II 's reign . |
| 29 | So I really can say I 've been Cake-Maker to the king ! |
| 30 | From time to time there have been limits to the amount that councils can spend per house ( the ‘ cost yardstick ’ ) and minimum standards have been established since the 1967 recommendations of the Parker Morris Committee . |