Example sentences of "[been] to bring " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious of these had been to bring the fate of the occupied territories onto centre stage internationally , persuading George Schultz to renew his peace mediation efforts . |
| 2 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 3 | The solution perceived by some libraries has been to bring in educational technologists to perform or assist with evaluation . |
| 4 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 6 | The effect of such a drastic change of ownership , especially of tribal lands , would have been to bring new capital into the area with development programmes to exploit the land for profit . |
| 7 | David 's answer had been to bring the boy before the old man . |
| 8 | The second purpose of the Lecture has been to bring out the need to consider a complete ‘ package ’ of tax changes . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman might recall that one of our successes has been to bring down average list sizes markedly since Labour was in power . |
| 10 | Pat Nevin endured one of his less effective nights , but the beauty of his signing has been to bring the best out of Morrissey . |
| 11 | But during the last decade the challenge of achieving expanding opportunities for the many has been ignored — instead , the priority has been to bring benefits only to the few . |