Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been to establish " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The main task of sensory neurophysiology has been to establish in more precise detail how ‘ the diversity of working produceth diversity of experience ’ — the modern term for which is ‘ coding of sensory information ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 4 | He added that the MBR 's task at the time of the coup had been to establish the basis " for a profound transformation … in the juridical-political and socio-economic areas " . |
| 5 | Er , yes we do er , our overall television strategy has been to establish er , a U K base , where we are restricted because of the newspaper ownership in most cases other than B Sky B to twenty percent , though the rules may change and our strategy is to develop er , overseas , both in erm , er , broadcasting and , and , and in programming . |
| 6 | At this point we first go beyond novelty into apparent paradox , for the most outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century physics had been to establish the indubitably wave-like character of light . |
| 7 | One approach to this problem has been to establish management agreements in which landowners voluntarily agree to manage their lands in specified ways receiving in return some financial compensation ( Blacksell and Gilg 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Yet the point of this short section has been to establish that where the jurists did face similar problems in coping with defective trust dispositions , they proceeded in very much the same way as they had done with legacies . |