Example sentences of "[verb] be [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 4 | The main aim has been to design a spatial arrangement which will provide the required performance or function . |
| 5 | My main part has been to design an adjustable bracket to attach to the alternator and tension the pulley . |
| 6 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |
| 7 | The artificial abrasive carborundum , made in Sweden , the U.S.A. and Japan , was probably not available to the Chinese until after the war of 1914–18 , since when its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles . |
| 8 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 9 | In the past , the main method of predicting population has been to extend the present curve . |
| 10 | The innovation has been to abandon the unitary form of organization in favour of the multidivisional ( or " M " ) form . |
| 11 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 12 | The latest step in theory building , however , has been to take the basic precept of marketing , that the consumer is the starting point , and see if that helped . |
| 13 | The ‘ solution ’ found for this problem has been to finance the uncovered interest by expanding the money supply . |
| 14 | Peter 's first priority has been to build the commercial side of the business , where image-conscious companies are prepared to spend heavily on landscaping and planting . |
| 15 | One very fruitful device adopted at GCSE has been to select a certain kind of document , or group of documents , that carries an apparent contradiction . |
| 16 | Perhaps the main defence has been to construct an imagined community of resistance which cuts across all internal divisions by emphasizing the levelling effects of racist oppression . |
| 17 | On each of the three occasions this century where there has been a clear coalition government — May 1915 to November 1922 , August 1931 to September 1932 , and May 1940 to May 1945 — it has been to meet a national emergency . |
| 18 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 19 | Here , the objective has been to involve the local community , first , in awareness of its own problems , provision of access to relevant information about them , and the alternative solutions that might be constructed to solve them ; and , second , in the development of local community groups , concerned partly with further analysis and discussion , partly with building community consciousness and collective involvement , and partly with community action to improve conditions and ameliorate problems . |
| 20 | In the case of lawyers the standard radical approach has been to assume the theoretical need for a concept ‘ profession ’ , and then to redefine the content of this concept . |
| 21 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 22 | Taken together , these changes suggest that the most important effect of the reforms to date has been to challenge the traditional balance of power within the NHS . |
| 23 | The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme onto the existing structure of private practice . |
| 24 | I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum . |
| 25 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
| 26 | The aim has been to provide a central resource , that will : |
| 27 | In the second belong a number of ‘ neo-populist ’ social historians whose primary concern has been to elucidate the distinctive structure and culture of the traditional peasant family farm . |
| 28 | ‘ The most critical factor in achieving this has been to establish the correct balance between the CHP units and the ( supplementing ) boiler plants and to maintain that balance , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The result has been to subject the legislative framework to piecemeal reforms leading in some instances , to incoherence within the present labour relations system . |
| 30 | The aim has been to combine the old architecture with new building that relies on traditional materials and a degree of craftsmanship . |