Example sentences of "[been] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 2 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 3 | The most dangerous aspect of rock ‘ n ’ roll has always been to succumb to the mythical lifestyle that leads down the path of destruction . |
| 4 | Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently . |
| 5 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 6 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 7 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 9 | The emphasis in such systems has been to concentrate on the representation , organisation and use of linguistic knowledge as encapsulated and expressed by linguistic rules and procedures . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it was held that the legislative intention must have been to exclude from the equitable rule any mortgage by a company . |
| 11 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
| 12 | The purpose of this study has been to look at the different ways sixth-form pupils find and use information when undertaking a school assignment . |
| 13 | The central contribution of these models has been to focus on the ‘ spill-over ’ effects that result from the failure of markets to clear . |
| 14 | Previously the policy had been to raid during the moonless period of each month , transported by the LRDG and returning to base in between to reorganize . |
| 15 | The response by government has — primarily — been to embark on a massive prison building programme , despite hopes of malting the Home Secretary 's ‘ twin-track ’ approach more of a reality . |
| 16 | The priority has been to buy off the ex-brigadiers of Hampshire . |
| 17 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 18 | The argument herein has been to point to a range of images , which focused not so much on sociological types ( conformist and delinquent behaviour ) , but on those pertaining to occupations , education , and the psychological state of ‘ personality ’ . |
| 19 | ( A man 's reaction about small type would have been to point to the scale and demand it be paid extra ! ) |
| 20 | The effect of these amalgamations , as far as this survey is concerned , has been to put onto the market what must be a large proportion of the original libraries . |
| 21 | Her original plan for the previous Wednesday had been to put in an hour or two of picket duty very early in the morning , and then go on to her appointment at Pringle 's . |
| 22 | Their first action had been to run to the comms unit , only to find it disabled . |
| 23 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 24 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 25 | Often many years elapsed before the village farmers built their new houses , however inconvenient it may have been to live in the centre of the parish and to farm on the boundaries . |
| 26 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 27 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 28 | The first thing he had done when he had come into the apartment had been to turn off the heating system , and then he had opened the window in his bedroom and the window in the sparsely furnished living room . |
| 29 | Fields 's first scheme had been to capitalise on the aftermath of the Falklands conflict , by operating a service between Gatwick and Port Stanley . |
| 30 | One approach to the problem has been to think of the world as God 's body . |