Example sentences of "has [been] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | One has been to include cognitive processes in the list of functions that they are trying to relate to particular brain regions or systems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For years , an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gartner has focused on the mid-range — apart from the money it has to spend on consultancy one assumes — because it believes the ‘ heritage of open systems has been to solve mid-range problems . ’ |
| 12 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 13 | The traditional approach has been to model procedural rights by analogy to ordinary court procedure ; the principles of natural justice reflect an adversarial-adjudicative conception of process rights . |
| 14 | But for many people , the slide into drug use has been to escape other problems — poor living conditions , no real job prospects and broken relationships at home which all lead to feelings of hopelessness and despair . |
| 15 | The traditional role of the building professional , however , has been to provide commercial buildings with services related to basic environmental control solutions and low running costs , especially if it is speculative development . |
| 16 | Essentially their contribution has been to provide co-operative networks for the exchange of teaching material , experience and ideas . |