Example sentences of "[verb] be [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 5 | The argument herein has been to point to a range of images , which focused not so much on sociological types ( conformist and delinquent behaviour ) , but on those pertaining to occupations , education , and the psychological state of ‘ personality ’ . |
| 6 | The true success of the American skiing industry has been to adapt to the ageing of its customers . |
| 7 | The emphasis in such systems has been to concentrate on the representation , organisation and use of linguistic knowledge as encapsulated and expressed by linguistic rules and procedures . |
| 8 | One approach to the problem has been to think of the world as God 's body . |
| 9 | Most appropriately , his approach has been to break through the author 's privacy , effectively dragging him out of the closet and giving an imaginative frame to the book by presenting the deplorable facts of Burroughs 's life . |
| 10 | The priority has been to buy off the ex-brigadiers of Hampshire . |
| 11 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
| 12 | It seems that the only recourse a sufferer now has is to appeal to the landlord . |
| 13 | The only recompe the only resource anyone has is to go to the courts , for the courts to decide what the law is at that present moment . |
| 14 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 15 | One option which they should very seriously consider is to invest in a bond fund . |
| 16 | ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 17 | ( with whom Fox and Russell L.JJ. agreed ) said , at pp. 991–992 : ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 18 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 19 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 20 | All you 've got ta do is to sit on the bog and go oooaaah |
| 21 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 22 | What the report does not do is to comment on the appropriateness of the sampling methodology for producing these kinds of performance measures . |
| 23 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 24 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 25 | All that can be done is to point to the factors that the courts commonly take into account when calculating the multiplier . |
| 26 | One way to answer is to look at the interests converging in two marriages probably dateable to 839 . |
| 27 | The reason this occurs is to do with the way Word handles files . |
| 28 | The reason that that B one insertion has been made is to cope with the use classes order change . |
| 29 | Obviously , the thing to do is to backwind to the point where the eating of the banana comes to an end and begin the next shot from there . |
| 30 | All you have to do is to go with the flow of events , letting each scene add to what has gone before . |