Example sentences of "have been to show " in BNC.
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| 1 | The achievement of Williams , of his followers and admirers , has been to show that the most secure haven for such doctrines is on the contrary in an ideology that is aggressively egalitarian , and also secular . |
| 2 | But perhaps her greatest achievement with the chimps at Gombe has been to show how astonishingly close they are to humanity — and so to narrow the gap between us and the rest of the animal world . |
| 3 | The purpose of this chapter has been to show how carers and the informal care network becomes part of the family network , and possibly even part of the family system with which social workers must work . |
| 4 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 5 | Whatever the problems with these rather global and unanalytic formulations , none the less they do encapsulate one indispensable and basic argument of feminism , the argument that women 's experience has been left out : one of the central themes of feminism has been the importance of women 's experience , and one of its central enterprises has been to show how a great deal of male theorising about women has tended to deny , invalidate , or be unable to account for this experience . |
| 6 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 7 | The aim of the discussion so far has been to show that tragedy arises from the spirit of music and is bound to perish without it . |
| 8 | The first has been to show that the long-run incidence of taxation , or other government measures , might be markedly different from the short-run incidence . |
| 9 | In questioning the assumption that public bureaucracies are apolitical , the point has been to show that public servants are involved and influential in the making of political choices ( Smith 1976 , pp. 100–9 ; Etzioni-Halevy 1983 , pp. 144–58 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Our aim has been to show that food can be fun , ’ said Paul who trained with Jeanne at the famed Roux brothers ' Le Gavroche restaurant in London . |
| 11 | The basic theoretical problem had been to show how two or more autonomous and contradictory totalizations make up one dialectical intelligibility : to do this he needed to totalize the classes in struggle , and to discover the synthetic unity of a conflictual society . |