Example sentences of "has been [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 2 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 3 | The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings . |
| 4 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |
| 5 | In the past , the main method of predicting population has been to extend the present curve . |
| 6 | Thus the approach in the report has been to state the differing philosophies as well as stating what is , at present , practically and commercially acceptable to all , to show what techniques and systems may be available in the future . |
| 7 | One consequence of the recent shift in patterns of provision introduced to combat falling rolls and to widen educational/vocational opportunities has been to highlight the different sizes found there . |
| 8 | The innovation has been to abandon the unitary form of organization in favour of the multidivisional ( or " M " ) form . |
| 9 | The purpose of this chapter has been to outline the main principles of analysing language in the community , and I have paid particular attention to exploring dialect-divergence . |
| 10 | The latest step in theory building , however , has been to take the basic precept of marketing , that the consumer is the starting point , and see if that helped . |
| 11 | The ‘ solution ’ found for this problem has been to finance the uncovered interest by expanding the money supply . |
| 12 | In the first belong those economic historians whose primary concern has been to re-examine the overall economic performance of Russian agriculture . |
| 13 | In business organizations the increasing tendency has been to use the basic financial statements as a measure of performance . |
| 14 | Peter 's first priority has been to build the commercial side of the business , where image-conscious companies are prepared to spend heavily on landscaping and planting . |
| 15 | Blake and Mouton 's main contribution , it 's suggested , has been to promulgate the basic ideas through a well-thought-out and packaged training course . |
| 16 | Another attraction of relational systems has been to enhance the searching facilities as with the work by Gallagher et al . |
| 17 | What a pleasure it has been to read the posh English papers in the past fortnight . |
| 18 | It was felt that the main objective of the Tory government has been to discipline the unemployed and to lay the blame for their unemployment on them rather than on government economic policy . |
| 19 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 20 | Here , the objective has been to involve the local community , first , in awareness of its own problems , provision of access to relevant information about them , and the alternative solutions that might be constructed to solve them ; and , second , in the development of local community groups , concerned partly with further analysis and discussion , partly with building community consciousness and collective involvement , and partly with community action to improve conditions and ameliorate problems . |
| 21 | The result has been to reward the biggest airlines , which incidentally go to the most attractive places for leisure travel , and to destroy the small carriers which go to a limited number of places . |
| 22 | In the case of lawyers the standard radical approach has been to assume the theoretical need for a concept ‘ profession ’ , and then to redefine the content of this concept . |
| 23 | Taken together , these changes suggest that the most important effect of the reforms to date has been to challenge the traditional balance of power within the NHS . |
| 24 | The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme onto the existing structure of private practice . |
| 25 | I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum . |
| 26 | This is probably more than just coincidence : it suggests that the Hall 's financial policy has been to cover the direct costs and subsidize the overheads . |
| 27 | One of Stoddard Mercia 's largest and most prestigious contracts this year has been to supply the entire public area carpeting for Edinburgh 's hotel ‘ The Balmoral . ’ |
| 28 | In the second belong a number of ‘ neo-populist ’ social historians whose primary concern has been to elucidate the distinctive structure and culture of the traditional peasant family farm . |
| 29 | ‘ The most critical factor in achieving this has been to establish the correct balance between the CHP units and the ( supplementing ) boiler plants and to maintain that balance , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The result has been to subject the legislative framework to piecemeal reforms leading in some instances , to incoherence within the present labour relations system . |