Example sentences of "have been to demonstrate " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrust of the last two chapters has been to demonstrate the ordinariness of policing in Easton . |
| 2 | The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs . |
| 3 | The outstanding achievement of Habermas has been to demonstrate the way in which psychoanalysis has an importance as the science of self-reflection , based , as it is , on the unravelling of distorted forms of communication . |
| 4 | A major contribution here has been to demonstrate that such social problems are the product of social structural arrangements and not the consequences of individual or personal qualities ( see above on individualistic versus sociological explanations ) . |
| 5 | The purpose of these calculations has been to demonstrate that rising average cost is consistent with natural monopoly . |
| 6 | A major contribution of Weinreich , Labov and Herzog ( 1968 ) and the quantitative paradigm has been to demonstrate that heterogeneity in the speech community can be shown to be have patterns in it . |
| 7 | The purpose of our discussion so far has been to demonstrate that there are important patterns of change that are not readily captured in a paradigm that measures a unilinear scale of phonetic variation against a unilinear scale of socio-economic class . |
| 8 | The basic concern has been to demonstrate that regimes , such as that in Iraq , can no longer threaten this new dispensation of global power . |