Example sentences of "has be [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ha aim has been to return British society to that former ‘ golden age ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The key economic objective has been to improve overall living standards by means of a high GNP growth rate . |
| 7 | The motive behind the shake-up has been to improve post-16 education . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 10 | Politically , however , their main effect during the twentieth century has been to make local government financially dependent upon the centre . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The trick has been to maintain added value and justify those loans , ’ he says . |
| 17 | The essentials of the problem have been thoroughly analysed in the past few years ; the difficulty has been to obtain international agreement on solutions . |
| 18 | In essence , the effect of medically conceived interpretations and solutions has been to provide institutional care settings and services , often taking over pre-existing custodial arrangements , in which basic nursing care , supervision and protection have been provided , with drug therapy as the major planned ‘ intervention ’ or treatment . |
| 19 | The other , much more recent development , has been to pay serious attention to modelling how cognitive functions might be carried out by the brain . |