Example sentences of "be to [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be to women 's advantage , but it is there , and it acknowledges the power , albeit negative , of women 's cycles of fertility . |
| 2 | It was to be to Grieg 's ‘ Holberg ’ Suite : ‘ It is all most un-Grieg . |
| 3 | As a result the deictic/non-deictic ambiguity is very general , and plagues the recipients of expressions like : ( 80 ) Bob is the man to the left of Mark where Bob may be to Mark 's own left ( non-deictic ) , or to the left from the speaker 's point of view ( deictic ) . |
| 4 | Gerry Wills , the Frampton Rovers manager , gave me a ring to say that he had a proposition that may well be to Athletico 's advantage . |
| 5 | But a new thought struck him — another murder might lead his superior to assume that Surere was , after all , still hiding out in the Southern Capital , and that , too , would hardly be to Merymose 's credit . |
| 6 | This was bound to entail a new evaluation , which ( we may note ) might not necessarily be to Homer 's advantage , for all the undoubted " harmony " and " beauty " of the early epic . |
| 7 | An Imperial Fist thinks and plans his every deed meticulously , even in the crucible of combat when our spilt blood hardens like cinnabar , thanks be to Larraman 's Organ . |
| 8 | Rainbow has n't been to Goldie 's house in years . |
| 9 | ‘ You have been to Pepe 's last Saturday ? ’ |
| 10 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 11 | Ha have you been to Jan 's ? |
| 12 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 13 | Have you been to Karen 's house before ? |
| 14 | I 've been to Fincara 's Isle and spoken to her ! ’ |
| 15 | It 's been a lot when you 've been to Nora 's |
| 16 | ‘ After all , we 've been to Charteris 's house . |
| 17 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 18 | who 's been to Southampton erm to have this new , er what do you call it ? |
| 19 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 20 | There is a good argument that the exclusion of a development corporation has in the long term been to Cramlington 's advantage , but the opportunity for land development profits was very important . |
| 21 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 22 | Philip had been to Barry 's house once with his Mum . |
| 23 | Since Georgina denied that she had been to Miller 's End since Christmas , and to the woods behind the cottage since the previous autumn , the forensic evidence clinched the case against her . |
| 24 | Though it had n't been to Rosemary 's flat that the tall dark-haired man had come , but hers ! |
| 25 | This was the first time Athelstan had been to Benedicta 's house , a two-storied building which stood alone , an alleyway on either side and a garden beyond . |
| 26 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 27 | Besides , if he had been to Tyler 's Hard , he would doubtless have recognized Harry from Morpurgo 's account of a strange visitor the previous Saturday . |
| 28 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 29 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 30 | No we are not , we 've been to Pelgrin 's Way . |