Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [been] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence , the effect of medically conceived interpretations and solutions has been to provide institutional care settings and services , often taking over pre-existing custodial arrangements , in which basic nursing care , supervision and protection have been provided , with drug therapy as the major planned ‘ intervention ’ or treatment . |
| 2 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 3 | One of the aims of Britain 's health and social services for the past 40 years has been to help old people to live in their own homes . |
| 4 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 5 | An important function of the private presses has been to reprint rare works of historical and literary importance . |
| 6 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 7 | Gartner has focused on the mid-range — apart from the money it has to spend on consultancy one assumes — because it believes the ‘ heritage of open systems has been to solve mid-range problems . ’ |