Example sentences of "have been to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another tactic has been to give greater scope to consumers vis-à-vis public sector groups . |
| 2 | The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government . |
| 3 | The first and most general cost has been to give the impression that Official Unionists would not be welcome in the Free Church . |
| 4 | The cumulative effect of the language of the British inner city has been to give it a contradictory definition , as a conceptual space both inside and outside of society . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The most important aspect of this work has been to give women the information they need to choose the method they prefer . |
| 7 | ‘ Our purpose in coming has been to give people experience and it was always going to be a hard tournament against Brazil and Germany . |
| 8 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |
| 9 | One obvious alternative to the appointment of the Commissioner would have been to give further jurisdiction to the Industrial Tribunals , instead of the High Court , to enforce such rights which now fall within the scope of the Commissioner 's work . |
| 10 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 11 | The delay had been to give the second team time to gain position . |
| 12 | The intention had been to give the premiere of Sea Change at Sadler 's Wells to open the Theatre Ballet 's new season there , but it was thought that by then John would already have left for New York to take part in the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first American tour , so the decision was made to present the ballet first on 18 July 1949 at the Gaiety Theatre , Dublin , where the company concluded its summer tour . |
| 13 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 14 | His resolve had been to give himself up every evening to a period of deep meditation . |
| 15 | A week ago her plan had been to give Travis the slip and catch the first flight out . |
| 16 | When Ven drew up outside her hotel , Fabia went on to realise just how kind he had been to give up so much of his time . |
| 17 | His first experience in magic had been to give a show at the Miners Welfare hall at the age of 11 . |
| 18 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |