Example sentences of "has [been] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 2 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |
| 3 | A further approach to explaining the development of significant continental-margin upwarps as a consequence of passive rifting has been to invoke a process known as secondary convection . |
| 4 | The result has been to generate a flood of good ideas — many of which have come from people working in market-oriented sectors . |
| 5 | However , this barrier was removed by s. 3 of the 1978 Act , the effect of which has been to enable a party to bring an action against any one partner for the recovery of the partnership debt irrespective of the liability of other partners . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Chairman , on behalf of the members , has asked me to express their appreciation of your excellent presentation and to state how difficult it has been to make a choice from outstanding candidates . |
| 8 | And the effect of this , over the last two thousand years odd , upon the intelligent observer , has been to produce a mood , or even a philosophy , of scepticism . |
| 9 | The result has been to produce a society of great institutional depth . |
| 10 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 11 | My purpose in this chapter has been to propose a model of language teaching and to show the interrelationship between its different elements . |
| 12 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 13 | The principal objective has been to provide a data resource for research on a wide range of aspects of 19th century society . |
| 14 | My object in this chapter has been to provide a transition between ( i ) the analysis of economic class relations , in the sense of possession of and separation from the means of production , and the strategic opportunities for the socialist project connected with the current forms of these relations , and ( ii ) the politics of taking up these opportunities in modern Britain . |
| 15 | He did tell Theo that the sketch was suggested to him by a poem of Thomas Hood 's relating the story of a conscience-stricken rich lady who has been to buy a dress and sees an emaciated , consumptive seamstress in a back room of the shop . |