Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 2 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |
| 3 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 6 | Although there have been periods of economic stagnation or crisis , including the exceptionally severe crisis of the 1930s ( which itself failed to engender large-scale revolutionary movements in most of the capitalist countries ) , and a renewed depression in the 1980s , the general tendency of capitalism has been to promote a continuous , and sometimes rapid , improvement in material standards of living , in which a large part of the working class , if not the whole class , has shared . |
| 7 | A further approach to explaining the development of significant continental-margin upwarps as a consequence of passive rifting has been to invoke a process known as secondary convection . |
| 8 | The main aim has been to design a spatial arrangement which will provide the required performance or function . |
| 9 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |
| 10 | The result has been to generate a flood of good ideas — many of which have come from people working in market-oriented sectors . |
| 11 | The artificial abrasive carborundum , made in Sweden , the U.S.A. and Japan , was probably not available to the Chinese until after the war of 1914–18 , since when its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles . |
| 12 | However , this barrier was removed by s. 3 of the 1978 Act , the effect of which has been to enable a party to bring an action against any one partner for the recovery of the partnership debt irrespective of the liability of other partners . |
| 13 | The target has been to create a ‘ self-managing environment ’ : this has resulted in acoustically controlled thermostats and water controllers , lighting systems which consume minimal energy and timer switches throughout the buildings . |
| 14 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 15 | The great area of progress since the 1970s has been to create a healthy and enterprising economy . |
| 16 | Coupled with regional policy instruments operating at EC level , the intention has been to create a level " playing field " within Europe , such that all member states can compete on an equal basis within the SEM . |
| 17 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 18 | The Chairman , on behalf of the members , has asked me to express their appreciation of your excellent presentation and to state how difficult it has been to make a choice from outstanding candidates . |
| 19 | One very fruitful device adopted at GCSE has been to select a certain kind of document , or group of documents , that carries an apparent contradiction . |
| 20 | The result has been to produce a society of great institutional depth . |
| 21 | And the effect of this , over the last two thousand years odd , upon the intelligent observer , has been to produce a mood , or even a philosophy , of scepticism . |
| 22 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |
| 23 | On each of the three occasions this century where there has been a clear coalition government — May 1915 to November 1922 , August 1931 to September 1932 , and May 1940 to May 1945 — it has been to meet a national emergency . |
| 24 | He will be aware , bearing in mind the other pressures we have on the budget this year , how difficult it has been to get a higher priority for roads . |
| 25 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 26 | The effect of this Act has been to inspire a greater sense of caution in British film-makers regarding the involvement of children in immodest or suggestive photography , and restrictions on importing such material might well spread these considerations abroad . |
| 27 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 28 | The approach of the project has been to develop a computable disaggregated model of the economy which differs from , for example , the Treasury model of distinguishing as many as 39 industries and a comparable level of detail in other sectors of the economy . |
| 29 | My purpose in this chapter has been to propose a model of language teaching and to show the interrelationship between its different elements . |
| 30 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |