Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 2 | The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings . |
| 3 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 6 | The main aim has been to design a spatial arrangement which will provide the required performance or function . |
| 7 | My main part has been to design an adjustable bracket to attach to the alternator and tension the pulley . |
| 8 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |
| 9 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |
| 10 | The artificial abrasive carborundum , made in Sweden , the U.S.A. and Japan , was probably not available to the Chinese until after the war of 1914–18 , since when its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles . |
| 11 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 12 | In the past , the main method of predicting population has been to extend the present curve . |
| 13 | Thus the approach in the report has been to state the differing philosophies as well as stating what is , at present , practically and commercially acceptable to all , to show what techniques and systems may be available in the future . |
| 14 | One consequence of the recent shift in patterns of provision introduced to combat falling rolls and to widen educational/vocational opportunities has been to highlight the different sizes found there . |
| 15 | The innovation has been to abandon the unitary form of organization in favour of the multidivisional ( or " M " ) form . |
| 16 | The purpose of this chapter has been to outline the main principles of analysing language in the community , and I have paid particular attention to exploring dialect-divergence . |
| 17 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 18 | The latest step in theory building , however , has been to take the basic precept of marketing , that the consumer is the starting point , and see if that helped . |
| 19 | The ‘ solution ’ found for this problem has been to finance the uncovered interest by expanding the money supply . |
| 20 | Peter 's first priority has been to build the commercial side of the business , where image-conscious companies are prepared to spend heavily on landscaping and planting . |
| 21 | Blake and Mouton 's main contribution , it 's suggested , has been to promulgate the basic ideas through a well-thought-out and packaged training course . |
| 22 | Another attraction of relational systems has been to enhance the searching facilities as with the work by Gallagher et al . |
| 23 | One very fruitful device adopted at GCSE has been to select a certain kind of document , or group of documents , that carries an apparent contradiction . |
| 24 | Perhaps the main defence has been to construct an imagined community of resistance which cuts across all internal divisions by emphasizing the levelling effects of racist oppression . |
| 25 | On each of the three occasions this century where there has been a clear coalition government — May 1915 to November 1922 , August 1931 to September 1932 , and May 1940 to May 1945 — it has been to meet a national emergency . |
| 26 | He will be aware , bearing in mind the other pressures we have on the budget this year , how difficult it has been to get a higher priority for roads . |
| 27 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 28 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 29 | The effect of this Act has been to inspire a greater sense of caution in British film-makers regarding the involvement of children in immodest or suggestive photography , and restrictions on importing such material might well spread these considerations abroad . |
| 30 | Here , the objective has been to involve the local community , first , in awareness of its own problems , provision of access to relevant information about them , and the alternative solutions that might be constructed to solve them ; and , second , in the development of local community groups , concerned partly with further analysis and discussion , partly with building community consciousness and collective involvement , and partly with community action to improve conditions and ameliorate problems . |