Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] be [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence , the effect of medically conceived interpretations and solutions has been to provide institutional care settings and services , often taking over pre-existing custodial arrangements , in which basic nursing care , supervision and protection have been provided , with drug therapy as the major planned ‘ intervention ’ or treatment . |
| 2 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 3 | One solution to the problems caused by the withdrawal of rail transport in rural areas has been to replace these services with buses . |
| 4 | The preferred method in recent years has been to purchase commercial , bills . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets . |
| 6 | One of the aims of Britain 's health and social services for the past 40 years has been to help old people to live in their own homes . |
| 7 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 8 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 9 | The NHS Management Executive has now created a prescribing team , one of whose first actions has been to require that prescribing is a priority for medical advisers . |
| 10 | An important function of the private presses has been to reprint rare works of historical and literary importance . |
| 11 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 12 | The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government . |
| 13 | Gartner has focused on the mid-range — apart from the money it has to spend on consultancy one assumes — because it believes the ‘ heritage of open systems has been to solve mid-range problems . ’ |
| 14 | My own offering to the state of knowledge about the status of British women has been to investigate two particular questions . |
| 15 | The solution adopted in converting several two-aisled church interiors into dwellings has been to regard this low-level central strip as a spinal access corridor serving all , or most of the flats — a sort of internal ‘ street ’ . |