Example sentences of "[been] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 32 | There was , however , this to be said : there had been political involvement under Miall in the 1840s but this had been to achieve a narrow , sectarian goal — disestablishment . |
| 33 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 34 | Management 's key objective has always been to introduce a simpler , single status pay and staffing structure , with sufficient flexibility to meet the needs of different parts of AEA . |