Example sentences of "have be [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast .
2 The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy .
3 The intention has been to stimulate interest within the British Airways engineering community towards AI based solutions to engineering diagnostics problems .
4 In those countries where the royalty has already been introduced one option chosen by some governments has been to use part of the income from the levy to set up a fund to give special help to the national music scene .
5 Perhaps the greatest contribution which our primary schools have made to education since the war has been to focus attention upon the child as a whole , unique human being .
6 It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’
7 One effect of the years of terrorism had been to abolish night in the vicinity of prisons , and the scene outside was bleakly bright .
8 The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner .
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