Example sentences of "has [been] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything has turned to gold and the inevitable consequence has been to turn individual acts of generosity and compassion into transactions with monetary consequences . |
| 2 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 3 | The basic purpose of obscenity laws is and always has been to reinforce cultural taboos on sexuality and suppress feminism , homosexuality and other forms of sexual dissidence . |
| 4 | The initial aim of the Institute at Buea has been to assemble reliable information on the most appropriate way of preparing pupils and school leavers for integration into the life and work of communities . |
| 5 | The traditional role of mother and baby units in psychiatry has been to treat acute postpartum mental illness without separating the mother from the infant . |
| 6 | Ha aim has been to return British society to that former ‘ golden age ’ . |
| 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 | Her lifelong mission has been to counter fundamentalist hypocrisy in any form , but she admits she 'd now like to resolve the conflict with her mother . |
| 9 | One has been to include cognitive processes in the list of functions that they are trying to relate to particular brain regions or systems . |
| 10 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 11 | ‘ The overall effect has been to sustain apparent sales volumes and reduce work in progress . |
| 12 | For years , an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun . |
| 13 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 14 | The key economic objective has been to improve overall living standards by means of a high GNP growth rate . |
| 15 | The motive behind the shake-up has been to improve post-16 education . |
| 16 | The dual responsibilities , to the employer and to the profession , remain problematic : the professional response has been to offer on-line access to ethical guidance . |
| 17 | Another idea thrown up by interferon research has been to make synthetic analogues of the 2',5'-oligoadenylate molecules formed in response to interferon and which activate the nuclease enzyme to break down viral messenger RNA . |
| 18 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 19 | Politically , however , their main effect during the twentieth century has been to make local government financially dependent upon the centre . |
| 20 | None the less , given that sociology did award philosophy a juridical role in determining how sociology should conduct its business , the effect has been to make social research methods extremely sensitive to judgements about whether or not they conform to the appropriate methodological criteria . |
| 21 | The effect of the changes in origination costs and consumables account has been to reduce pre-tax profit significantly below levels previously reported , in particular in the years 1989/90 and 1990/91 , when the group accumulated heavy origination costs in developing a video sell-through catalogue and product base . |
| 22 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 23 | The strategy has been to abolish national protectionism in the sales of terminal equipment , to lay down one set of technical standards throughout the EC , to separate the regulatory and business sides of the telecoms authorities , and to open public purchasing of equipment to pan-European tender . |
| 24 | The aim has been to produce pictorial representations of a complete set of valence molecular orbitals for as many molecules as possible and to relate them to what is observed in the experimental world . |
| 25 | The major contribution to the promotion of community languages which these courses have made has been to discover significant numbers of good classroom practitioners , good analysts , good coordinators and good teacher trainers , so as to build up a genuine national resource in terms of expertise . |
| 26 | This has in fact occurred in the advanced capitalist countries , and one main consequence has been to limit industrial conflict primarily to economic issues , as against larger issues of the control of the enterprise , and to bring about a substantial degree of integration of workers into the existing mode of production . |
| 27 | An important function of the private presses has been to reprint rare works of historical and literary importance . |
| 28 | The primary aim of the project has been to utilise micro data sets in the rigorous empirical decisions in the presence of credit market imperfections . |
| 29 | ‘ The trick has been to maintain added value and justify those loans , ’ he says . |
| 30 | His secret has been to approach ordinary people about non-controversial issues . |