Example sentences of "been [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 2 | The most dangerous aspect of rock ‘ n ’ roll has always been to succumb to the mythical lifestyle that leads down the path of destruction . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it was held that the legislative intention must have been to exclude from the equitable rule any mortgage by a company . |
| 4 | The purpose of this study has been to look at the different ways sixth-form pupils find and use information when undertaking a school assignment . |
| 5 | Previously the policy had been to raid during the moonless period of each month , transported by the LRDG and returning to base in between to reorganize . |
| 6 | The response by government has — primarily — been to embark on a massive prison building programme , despite hopes of malting the Home Secretary 's ‘ twin-track ’ approach more of a reality . |
| 7 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 8 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 9 | Eventually she had become resigned to a dull , passionless existence ; her husband had masked his indifference to her real feelings with elaborate public courtesies , and her only role outside of motherhood had been to act as a decorative hostess at his political functions . |
| 10 | But for Seldes too it was ‘ the times ’ that had largely been to blame for the infantile nature of the movies . |