Example sentences of "have been to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major production innovation at Kalmar has been to do away with the track . |
| 2 | The challenge in 1992/93 has been to do more with less ; we lost 8% of our establishment when the Council suffered with the profession a substantial reduction in its planned revenues . |
| 3 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 4 | The best approach would have been to do the more straightforward bits first and to spend only the allocated time — 36 minutes — and no longer . |
| 5 | The easiest option for both district and area administrators would have been to do nothing until after the reorganization had taken place . |
| 6 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 7 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 8 | Every contact I 've ever had with Florian has to have been to do with sex — ’ |
| 9 | It dawned on Loretta that the latter half of Bridget 's remark had been to do with Puddephat 's taste in footwear , not the object she was holding . |
| 10 | With regard to our role as consumers the questions have been to do with patterns of expenditure , changes in life-style , and , in particular , changes in leisure patterns . |
| 11 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out what is blindingly obvious to Conservative Members but escapes Opposition Members — our reforms have been to do with giving power to individual trade union members and restoring accountability and responsibility to trade unions and their leaders . |
| 12 | Two or three people have been having problems with the listserv software here this week , and it 's been to do with personal mail addresses , as shown in the From : field of the header of every message each of us sends . |