Example sentences of "have been [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 2 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 3 | The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Although there have been periods of economic stagnation or crisis , including the exceptionally severe crisis of the 1930s ( which itself failed to engender large-scale revolutionary movements in most of the capitalist countries ) , and a renewed depression in the 1980s , the general tendency of capitalism has been to promote a continuous , and sometimes rapid , improvement in material standards of living , in which a large part of the working class , if not the whole class , has shared . |
| 6 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 7 | The main aim has been to design a spatial arrangement which will provide the required performance or function . |
| 8 | My main part has been to design an adjustable bracket to attach to the alternator and tension the pulley . |
| 9 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |
| 10 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |
| 11 | The artificial abrasive carborundum , made in Sweden , the U.S.A. and Japan , was probably not available to the Chinese until after the war of 1914–18 , since when its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles . |
| 12 | The great area of progress since the 1970s has been to create a healthy and enterprising economy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the past , the main method of predicting population has been to extend the present curve . |
| 15 | Thus the approach in the report has been to state the differing philosophies as well as stating what is , at present , practically and commercially acceptable to all , to show what techniques and systems may be available in the future . |
| 16 | One consequence of the recent shift in patterns of provision introduced to combat falling rolls and to widen educational/vocational opportunities has been to highlight the different sizes found there . |
| 17 | The innovation has been to abandon the unitary form of organization in favour of the multidivisional ( or " M " ) form . |
| 18 | The purpose of this chapter has been to outline the main principles of analysing language in the community , and I have paid particular attention to exploring dialect-divergence . |
| 19 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 20 | The latest step in theory building , however , has been to take the basic precept of marketing , that the consumer is the starting point , and see if that helped . |
| 21 | The ‘ solution ’ found for this problem has been to finance the uncovered interest by expanding the money supply . |
| 22 | In the first belong those economic historians whose primary concern has been to re-examine the overall economic performance of Russian agriculture . |
| 23 | In business organizations the increasing tendency has been to use the basic financial statements as a measure of performance . |
| 24 | Peter 's first priority has been to build the commercial side of the business , where image-conscious companies are prepared to spend heavily on landscaping and planting . |
| 25 | Blake and Mouton 's main contribution , it 's suggested , has been to promulgate the basic ideas through a well-thought-out and packaged training course . |
| 26 | Another attraction of relational systems has been to enhance the searching facilities as with the work by Gallagher et al . |
| 27 | One very fruitful device adopted at GCSE has been to select a certain kind of document , or group of documents , that carries an apparent contradiction . |
| 28 | Perhaps the main defence has been to construct an imagined community of resistance which cuts across all internal divisions by emphasizing the levelling effects of racist oppression . |
| 29 | What a pleasure it has been to read the posh English papers in the past fortnight . |
| 30 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |