Example sentences of "been [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 2 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 3 | So you still have n't been to see this house in are you ? |
| 4 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 5 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 6 | Traditionally the records of these transactions have tended to be stored on parchment , vellum or paper and the job of the archive has been to preserve these information storage media . |
| 7 | The original Conservative proposal had been to unload all secondary or graduated pensions on to the private sector . |
| 8 | Mr Florio 's formula has been to embrace those Republican policies which brought economic growth to the state during the Reagan years , while sharply attacking the Republicans ' conservative stand on social and environmental issues . |
| 9 | The Government response has been to accept these recommendations in principle ‘ subject to further consideration being given to timing and the availability of resources ’ ( Government Response to Benson , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | As he entered the study , Stephen reflected on how fortunate he had been to obtain this man 's services . |
| 11 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 12 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |
| 13 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 14 | Our central initiative has been to urge that Labour , with others , should mobilise a major national demonstration , plus cultural activities , that would provide a unifying focus for campaigners . |
| 15 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 16 | One solution to the problems caused by the withdrawal of rail transport in rural areas has been to replace these services with buses . |
| 17 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 18 | The NHS Management Executive has now created a prescribing team , one of whose first actions has been to require that prescribing is a priority for medical advisers . |
| 19 | Indeed , the committee submits that ‘ throughout our aim has not been to advance any particular viewpoint , but simply to identify the relevant facts . |
| 20 | His achievement has been to cross that hitherto unrepresented culture into the mainstream ; to disrupt the patina of early evening viewing simply by being himself . |
| 21 | My task had been to help these women to realise their own strengths and to speak out for themselves with courage and dignity . |
| 22 | But instead of embracing the group soul ( Jung 's Collective unconscious ) the inevitable consequence of the backlash into demythologising has been to surrender this concept to the Greenpeace/ Aquarian/New Age wholemeal-sandals people . |
| 23 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 24 | When owners of expensive computer games have conquered all the complexities of their latest purchase the only thing to do has been to buy another , harder game . |
| 25 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 26 | Jamel Mobuto 's first two decrees on taking office had been to free all political prisoners being held there and the immediate dismantling of the Security Police . |
| 27 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 28 | The original plan had been to leave all the top posts open , with a promise to find people as soon as the investors had parted with their cash . |
| 29 | Colonel Windsor 's initial reaction had been to discount that , no matter how trustworthy the source ; but now , as he reflected on it , he felt it could well be true . |
| 30 | The strategy had been to mobilize this vision of art by means missionary work of national ( as opposed to state ) intellectuals . |