Example sentences of "has been [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The international trend is towards an ever greater degree of devolution ; here the tendency has been to centralise , and the issues of autonomy , which most locals want are confused with the mechanics of finance . |
| 4 | A major contribution of the discipline has been to emphasise how the identification and designation of a particular phenomenon or pattern of behaviour as a ‘ social problem ’ is not an unambiguous matter , but a process of social definition . |
| 5 | The Poles ' sole contribution to history has been to indulge in foolish pranks , at once valiant and provocative . |
| 6 | The role of CCG 's Safety and Training Department has been to analyse the information available : clarify the requirements and keep management , staff and clients up to date on developments . |
| 7 | These cases seem to indicate that the effect of RSC Ord. 53 , r. 3(7) has been to liberalize the law of standing . |
| 8 | The classic mistake has been to confuse experiences involved in learning with all other kinds of experience which the animal can have during its development ( see Lehrman , 1970 ) . |
| 9 | The main idea here has been to exploit the existence of particles known as ‘ muons ’ which in some ways behave like electrons , but are some 207 times heavier and are unstable . |
| 10 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 11 | The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence . |
| 12 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 13 | The current Government 's approach to local government finance — most notably through the poll tax fiasco — has been to destroy the independence of local authorities by reducing their powers to raise and spend revenue . |
| 14 | The point has been to set people free from constraints ; and leave them free to take advantage of the opportunities around them . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 16 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 17 | Hitherto the universal election-time practice of Greek governments , of left or right , has been to spend more money and go easy on taxes . |
| 18 | Indeed , the characteristic response of both terrestrial and marine organisms to the pronounced climatic changes of the Pleistocene has been to migrate to ecological refuges , in effect to track their environment . |
| 19 | Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure . |
| 20 | But her final role before the birth has been to co-star with Paul Schofield in a two-hander play for Radio 4 , Rediscovering Leo , to be broadcast next year . |
| 21 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 22 | Without doubt , the most important use of tax havens over the past 10 years has been to save ( or defer ) capital gains tax . |
| 23 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 24 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 25 | The effect of these amalgamations , as far as this survey is concerned , has been to put onto the market what must be a large proportion of the original libraries . |
| 26 | The paradoxical effect of this has been to put the researcher , including the one who claims to be working within applied linguistics , at a remove from the only contexts of application which can provide substantiating evidence for the relevance of the research . |
| 27 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 28 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 29 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 30 | Part of my job as your representative has been to put the views and ideas offered by you , the teacher , to the organising committees of the Society . |