Example sentences of "[noun] has [be] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there have been periods of economic stagnation or crisis , including the exceptionally severe crisis of the 1930s ( which itself failed to engender large-scale revolutionary movements in most of the capitalist countries ) , and a renewed depression in the 1980s , the general tendency of capitalism has been to promote a continuous , and sometimes rapid , improvement in material standards of living , in which a large part of the working class , if not the whole class , has shared . |
| 2 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
| 3 | The main aim has been to design a spatial arrangement which will provide the required performance or function . |
| 4 | The aim has been to provide a central resource , that will : |
| 5 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The approach of the project has been to develop a computable disaggregated model of the economy which differs from , for example , the Treasury model of distinguishing as many as 39 industries and a comparable level of detail in other sectors of the economy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 13 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |