Example sentences of "have been to create " in BNC.
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| 1 | The target has been to create a ‘ self-managing environment ’ : this has resulted in acoustically controlled thermostats and water controllers , lighting systems which consume minimal energy and timer switches throughout the buildings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From the time this imaginative project was conceived , the aim has been to create the most exciting and original selection of luxury homes available in Central London . |
| 4 | The great area of progress since the 1970s has been to create a healthy and enterprising economy . |
| 5 | Moreover the tendency during the present century has been to create broadly defined criminal offences ( such as theft ) , with a sufficiently generous maximum to cater for the worst contingency . |
| 6 | One solution has been to create university departments of integrated environmental science or of earth sciences . |
| 7 | The point to note here is that it is the lower-wage countries for which this is the case and the crucial impact of the TNCs has been to create intense pressure to keep down labour costs in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 8 | Coupled with regional policy instruments operating at EC level , the intention has been to create a level " playing field " within Europe , such that all member states can compete on an equal basis within the SEM . |
| 9 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 10 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 11 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 12 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 13 | The initial aim in forming the DUP had been to create a united unionist party which would be as orthodox in its constitutional position as the Unionist Party of Craig and Brookeborough . |
| 14 | Why they were as they were , and what kind of man her great-great-great-grandfather had been to create a place like this . |
| 15 | In establishing a Peace Council the aim had been to create a body composed of representatives of associations , political parties , the private sector and the government to design a new peace strategy . |