Example sentences of "have been to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her preferred method has been to make policies with small working parties , drawn from sympathetic ministers and members of her Policy Unit and ‘ think tanks ’ , as with the introduction of the poll tax , the health service review , and some of the education reforms . |
| 2 | The aim has been to make purchasers much more prudent and to force providers to compete for business . |
| 3 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 5 | One approach has been to make synthetic double stranded RNA molecule– which can mimic the effect of viral double-stranded RNA as an inducer of interferon production . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Revell 's tactic has been to make the body four inches deep , to maximise the volume of air within the guitar ; the body is in fact almost as deep as the soundhole rosette is wide . |
| 8 | The main one has been to make us think more closely about how the visual system might be organized . |
| 9 | Overall , the effect of low taxes and a free market has been to make Britain far more enterprising . |
| 10 | Politically , however , their main effect during the twentieth century has been to make local government financially dependent upon the centre . |
| 11 | The Chairman , on behalf of the members , has asked me to express their appreciation of your excellent presentation and to state how difficult it has been to make a choice from outstanding candidates . |
| 12 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thus , as was intended , the Act has had most impact on consumer transactions , and its effect , together with the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , has been to make it hardly worthwhile to exclude liability in consumer transactions . |
| 15 | Before , the highest pinnacle of achievement would have been to make something that would change the world . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The effect on the jury might well have been to make them wonder why W did not answer if he was innocent . |
| 18 | Could it have been to make up for Cymbeline 's cheating that the Umpire permitted me to find the sacristy so easily ? |
| 19 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 20 | He thought of his dam that had been to make a lake . |
| 21 | It is incredible that my challenge in tournaments so often during this time had been to make the cut . |
| 22 | The usual way of coping with their father had been to make no reference to anything untoward that might have happened , for fear of bringing it all upon them again . |
| 23 | By the 1970s , the legislative process had altered enormously , but the only changes in House of Commons procedure have been to make it less capable of controlling even the old pattern of legislation . |