Example sentences of "[noun] has been [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essentials of the problem have been thoroughly analysed in the past few years ; the difficulty has been to obtain international agreement on solutions . |
| 2 | The dual responsibilities , to the employer and to the profession , remain problematic : the professional response has been to offer on-line access to ethical guidance . |
| 3 | Officialdom 's response has been to throw more money at the problem . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The trick has been to maintain added value and justify those loans , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The extent of Michael 's ‘ multi-media ’ experience has been to take some Polaroid shots of drawings of his dog . |
| 7 | Furthermore , one way of saving money has been to allow larger classes , with severe overcrowding in some urban primary classrooms . |
| 8 | For neurophysiologists and neuropsychologists , the way forward in understanding perception has been to correlate these dimensions of experience with , firstly , the material properties of the experienced object or event ( usually regarded as the ‘ stimulus ’ ) and , secondly , the patterns of discharges in the sensory system . |
| 9 | In essence , the effect of medically conceived interpretations and solutions has been to provide institutional care settings and services , often taking over pre-existing custodial arrangements , in which basic nursing care , supervision and protection have been provided , with drug therapy as the major planned ‘ intervention ’ or treatment . |
| 10 | ‘ The overall effect has been to sustain apparent sales volumes and reduce work in progress . |
| 11 | None the less , given that sociology did award philosophy a juridical role in determining how sociology should conduct its business , the effect has been to make social research methods extremely sensitive to judgements about whether or not they conform to the appropriate methodological criteria . |
| 12 | The purpose of this chapter has been to establish three propositions : that religious beliefs have penetrated scientific discussion on many levels , that to reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict is therefore inadequate , but that to construct a revisionist history for apologetic purposes would be just as problematic . |
| 13 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 14 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 15 | Another idea thrown up by interferon research has been to make synthetic analogues of the 2',5'-oligoadenylate molecules formed in response to interferon and which activate the nuclease enzyme to break down viral messenger RNA . |
| 16 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 17 | The main effect of the 1980 Act has been to reinforce earlier borrowing controls by expenditure controls , thereby bringing ‘ all capital spending [ by local authorities ] within the scope of control ’ ( Travers , 1986 , p. 142 ) . |
| 18 | One solution to the problems caused by the withdrawal of rail transport in rural areas has been to replace these services with buses . |
| 19 | The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community . |
| 20 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 21 | Another tactic has been to give greater scope to consumers vis-à-vis public sector groups . |
| 22 | One of the aims of Britain 's health and social services for the past 40 years has been to help old people to live in their own homes . |
| 23 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 24 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 25 | Everything has turned to gold and the inevitable consequence has been to turn individual acts of generosity and compassion into transactions with monetary consequences . |
| 26 | While the purpose of creating commodity organisations was neither to escape liability nor to create profits for the organisation itself , but to control dealings in the commodity for the benefit of member States , the consequence has been to deprive third parties who were dealing in good faith with the organisation of a domestic judicial remedy . |
| 27 | This has in fact occurred in the advanced capitalist countries , and one main consequence has been to limit industrial conflict primarily to economic issues , as against larger issues of the control of the enterprise , and to bring about a substantial degree of integration of workers into the existing mode of production . |
| 28 | Ha aim has been to return British society to that former ‘ golden age ’ . |
| 29 | The aim has been to produce pictorial representations of a complete set of valence molecular orbitals for as many molecules as possible and to relate them to what is observed in the experimental world . |
| 30 | The initial aim of the Institute at Buea has been to assemble reliable information on the most appropriate way of preparing pupils and school leavers for integration into the life and work of communities . |