Example sentences of "have [be] [noun] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 7 | In the past , the site 's been home to a church , a castle — perhaps even part of a palace . |