Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our priority all along has been to win the League and nothing has altered that . ’ |
| 2 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 3 | His most effective action so far has been to deflect the corruption allegations by recruiting Spain 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ to stand alongside him as a Socialist candidate . |
| 4 | The only problem so far has been to anchor the device when the current gets too strong . |
| 5 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Indeed , the intention of the English negotiators when the Second Treaty of London was drawn up may well have been to make the French an offer they would be bound to refuse . |
| 8 | The effect of these operations must surely have been to shorten the war . |
| 9 | As implied above , another effect of generally high crude prices earlier on had been to encourage the economics of developing oil accumulations discovered outside the OPEC countries — not only in the industrialized world , in places like the North Sea , but also in some countries close to OPEC members , like Oman and Mexico . |
| 10 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |