Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classic mistake has been to confuse experiences involved in learning with all other kinds of experience which the animal can have during its development ( see Lehrman , 1970 ) . |
| 2 | The point has been to set people free from constraints ; and leave them free to take advantage of the opportunities around them . |
| 3 | Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There the trend has been to turn waste into energy by incineration — energy recovery . |
| 6 | But the effect of a Measure of the Church Assembly of 1923 has been to render advowsons virtually inalienable , except in the case of a sale of land to which an advowson is appendant . |
| 7 | Consequently , industry practice has been to reinforce policies of vertical ownership — the creation of an ‘ internal ’ market — as a more effective method of managing the uncertainties ( UNCTC , 1981 ; Hennart , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Since the prime function of many layers of middle management has been to transmit information which can be far more efficiently transmitted by modern technology , there is now no longer any need for their employment . |
| 9 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 10 | The most important aspect of this work has been to give women the information they need to choose the method they prefer . |
| 11 | ‘ Our purpose in coming has been to give people experience and it was always going to be a hard tournament against Brazil and Germany . |
| 12 | We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them . |
| 13 | Claire McGahan has been to visit Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor to try and uncover the secret of success that has put the Co Down girls ' school into the spotlight . |
| 14 | Although my brief has been to examine animal communication , I am bound to be asked whether the Darwinian approach can add anything to understanding the connections between what animals do and what we do . |
| 15 | A major part of the Conservative agenda has been to undermine socialism and develop a contemporary form of laissez-faire market economics , to move Britain from a culture of dependency to the enterprise culture . |
| 16 | In circumstances in which the opinion leaders and policy-makers in adult education have responded to the women 's movement at all , it has been to co-opt feminism into their platitudes , whilst at the same time seeking to deflect and defeat the radical intention of women 's liberation as it might be applied in adult education and society generally . |
| 17 | The intention has been to stimulate interest within the British Airways engineering community towards AI based solutions to engineering diagnostics problems . |
| 18 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |
| 19 | The biological aim of the meal has been to enable foodstuffs to be taken into the body for its growth and repair . |
| 20 | One solution has been to create university departments of integrated environmental science or of earth sciences . |
| 21 | The second main line has been to tar Major as ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ . |
| 22 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |
| 23 | A major reason for surrogacy arrangements in Western countries today has been to allow men in heterosexual couples to continue their ’ bloodline ’ when their partners , the women , have fertility problems . |
| 24 | The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia . |
| 25 | The aim of the disposal programme has been to streamline LASMO 's business , strengthen its presence in core areas and improve performance , whilst raising cash and curtailing expenditure in order to reduce debt and gearing . |
| 26 | One of the errors attributable to constructivist rationalism has been to view law as a prescription posited by authority ; that is , of equating law with legislation . |
| 27 | The effect has been to leave DGIV acting as both prosecutor and judge in competition cases , which is unacceptable . |
| 28 | Part of the process has been to leave melodies incomplete , in an enigmatic and obscure fashion , sacrificing them to the technical prowess of symphonic ‘ textures ’ which perhaps have a greater degree of interest and a more intellectually appealing complexity . |
| 29 | One solution , especially in the remoter and poorer areas , has been to shed labour and reduce costs . |
| 30 | A recent trend , internationally and nationally , in Information Technology Departments has been to rationalise functions . |