Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 2 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 3 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 4 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 5 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 6 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 7 | A number of museums wanted the works , some of which had been on loan to The Metropolitan . |
| 8 | In this connection it was agreed that Christine should add the names and addresses of those who had been at Carberry to her database . |
| 9 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 10 | The Poles of the Prussian marches had been under pressure to Germanise themselves for centuries . |
| 11 | He had been under pressure to water down the doctrine of collegiality . |
| 12 | Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . " |
| 13 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 14 | The Wingti government also claimed that the army 's advance was largely unresisted and had been in response to the invitation of local chiefs . |
| 15 | Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision . |
| 16 | All categories of sales had shown an increase in the decade , but the really spectacular growth , especially after 1943 , had been in sales to domestic consumers . |
| 17 | Deputy Premier Zigmas Vaisvila , who had been in opposition to Vagnorius since April , was removed from his post as head of the State Security Department on May 28 . |