Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One of the most significant results of the repression in the Baltic states has been to recreate an alliance between Russian radical politicians and Baltic nationalists . |
| 2 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |
| 3 | In Sudbrook the lessors had refused to appoint their valuer to discuss and seek to agree the value of the reversions with a valuer appointed by the lessees ; under the lease the valuers appointed were to refer the matter to an umpire . |
| 4 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 5 | A key theme of policy in recent years has been to maximise the extent to which other agencies than government itself can be held responsible for inadequacies in public sector services . |
| 6 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 7 | The overall effect of this hedging activity in recent years has been to reduce the group 's interest charge . |
| 8 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 9 | The strategy over the past few years has been to establish the University more actively in research , whilst retaining its commitment to excellence in teaching . |
| 10 | The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives . |
| 11 | One of Chaovalit 's many Cabinet responsibilities had been to head the government 's Counter Corruption Commission ( CCC ) . |
| 12 | One of the main changes has been to allow the establishment or revival of private schools , previously not permitted to operate . |
| 13 | One solution increasingly adopted by farmers has been to return the land to grass again . |
| 14 | The response of governments to such problems has been to redefine the relationship between control and autonomy by providing a more formal framework for enterprises to operate in . |
| 15 | One of the simplest and most informative things to do is to measure the thickness of the pumice deposit at as many places as possible , plot these thicknesses on a map , and then draw lines on the map , rather like contour lines , linking points of equal ash thickness , say ten metres , five metres , one metre and so on . |
| 16 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 17 | The general aim of admissions work is to fill the Course with well motivated students who are likely to benefit from it . |
| 18 | All these products do is to stop the damp from ruining decorations . |
| 19 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 20 | One of Cromer 's first acts had been to abolish the use by government officials of the curbash , the whip , as a means of enforcing obedience . |
| 21 | The mistake that many students make is to consider the product , in this case an A level essay , more important in itself than the process which produced it . |
| 22 | The thrust of the last two chapters has been to demonstrate the ordinariness of policing in Easton . |
| 23 | The services promised were to provide a room , fuel , clothing , to wash clothing , or to visit if sick . |
| 24 | I 've found that an easy way to cut ceramic tiles to shape is to use a brand new hacksaw blade . |
| 25 | One of the early steps that I and my colleagues took was to encourage the removal of intermediate layers , and to try to apply the theory of ‘ added value ’ to hierarchical organization . |