Example sentences of "[verb] be [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The main aim has been to design a spatial arrangement which will provide the required performance or function . |
| 5 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The great area of progress since the 1970s has been to create a healthy and enterprising economy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 16 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
| 17 | The aim has been to provide a central resource , that will : |
| 18 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
| 19 | The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 20 | One of the basic problems in surveying is to obtain a good response from one 's informants . |
| 21 | In other words , to slim is to take a rational decision with a conscious aim in view . |
| 22 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 23 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 25 | All it needs is to promise a high-powered investigation , such as a Royal Commission , into the practicalities of an alternative voting system ( surely justified by the intense public interest now abounding ) . |
| 26 | Two teenagers who were badly injured when a horse bolted are to begin a legal fight for compensation . |
| 27 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 28 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 29 | With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl . |
| 30 | British manufacturing is taking a blow and all that the Minister can do is to give a monosyllabic , negative answer without any explanation . |