Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [be] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 2 | The effect of the recession has been to reduce membership numbers to the level of 15 years ago , with a drop of 10,000 in 1992 , and an even greater proportionate fall in the number of examination candidates . |
| 3 | It also points out in in in in the report , that this income has been to meet expenditure of thirty-two thousand pounds for the number of services , and the remainder of this , has been with additional insurance costs . |
| 4 | The intention has been to stimulate interest within the British Airways engineering community towards AI based solutions to engineering diagnostics problems . |
| 5 | South Africa 's reply has been to attack transport and economic installations that link the neighbours so as to ensure that they remain dependent on South Africa . |
| 6 | The effect has been to leave DGIV acting as both prosecutor and judge in competition cases , which is unacceptable . |
| 7 | And the effect has been to reduce truth to timeliness , morality to usefulness and personal faith to a matter of what is fashionable . |
| 8 | The extraordinary depth and length of the recession is partly to blame , since one effect has been to reduce wastage rates still further . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps the greatest contribution which our primary schools have made to education since the war has been to focus attention upon the child as a whole , unique human being . |
| 13 | Over the five years of TRANSAID 's operations the most recurring need has been to provide advice on transport management and control . |
| 14 | " The aim has been to achieve consistency with Code style and method in point of language , presentation and clarity of statement , without affecting substance " ( p.270 ) . |
| 15 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | General manager of C&TL is Ken Arkley : ‘ Our first priority has been to devise technology and catalysts for our own , internal use . |
| 18 | For years , the traditional method has been to use phonetics ; learning how each letter sounds and building up a word . |
| 19 | One of the real achievements of the revolutionary government has been to reform land-ownership , in theory giving everyone the right to farm . |
| 20 | One has to recall that a major objective of Mrs Thatcher 's government has been to change public opinion , not least about the role of government itself . |
| 21 | ‘ My objective has been to strengthen recovery by giving help to business . ’ |
| 22 | Another approach has been to apply regime theory as developed by political scientists to areas regulated by international law.150 — In all cases , a particular claim would have to be carefully examined to determine the legitimacy of an erga omnes claim , which can not be presumed . |
| 23 | There the trend has been to turn waste into energy by incineration — energy recovery . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Our brief has been to provide distribution equipment that will maintain prepared food at the correct temperature to the point of consumption , so that the consumer receives optimum quality at the optimum levels of hygiene . |
| 26 | With the growing pressures to develop more efficient , flexible and ‘ commercial ’ state organizations , the tendency has been to transfer trading activities from departments of state to public corporations , as with the British Post Office at the end of the 1960s and the Italian railways in the mid-1980s . |
| 27 | Often the purpose has been to encourage wage restraint ; the size and shape of investment programmes have been the subject of ministerial concern ; in the past the National Coal Board has been dissuaded from closing uneconomic pits . |
| 28 | One approach to this problem has been to establish management agreements in which landowners voluntarily agree to manage their lands in specified ways receiving in return some financial compensation ( Blacksell and Gilg 1981 ) . |
| 29 | He called for action to tackle the difficulties without ‘ shaming the reputation of this country and infringing the civil liberties of a few helpless people whose only sin has been to seek freedom and our protection ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |