Example sentences of "have [be] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our central initiative has been to urge that Labour , with others , should mobilise a major national demonstration , plus cultural activities , that would provide a unifying focus for campaigners . |
| 2 | The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence . |
| 3 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 4 | Hitherto the universal election-time practice of Greek governments , of left or right , has been to spend more money and go easy on taxes . |
| 5 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 6 | Everything has turned to gold and the inevitable consequence has been to turn individual acts of generosity and compassion into transactions with monetary consequences . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The main effect of the 1980 Act has been to reinforce earlier borrowing controls by expenditure controls , thereby bringing ‘ all capital spending [ by local authorities ] within the scope of control ’ ( Travers , 1986 , p. 142 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the successful aspects of the work of the Enterprise Centre has been to forge new and strong links between staff from different faculties and departments and to bring some departments that have previously played a peripheral role into the mainstream of the University 's activities . |
| 11 | Government policy in the 1980s has been to oppose any increase in the country 's dollar debt , which remains at the manageable level of $5.5 million . |
| 12 | The preferred method in recent years has been to purchase commercial , bills . |
| 13 | Mr Florio 's formula has been to embrace those Republican policies which brought economic growth to the state during the Reagan years , while sharply attacking the Republicans ' conservative stand on social and environmental issues . |
| 14 | Another tactic has been to give greater scope to consumers vis-à-vis public sector groups . |
| 15 | The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government . |
| 16 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Government policy has been to close large mental hospitals and wherever possible to move to care in the community , with a resulting decrease in the number of psychiatric hospital beds . |
| 19 | More specialised terminals , such as those handling chemicals or coal , have thrived in relation to the industry they serve , though the tendency has been to close lesser used depots whenever investment in new track or pointwork has become necessary . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ha aim has been to return British society to that former ‘ golden age ’ . |
| 22 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I am by training and profession an historian ; my role has been to collect these documents , to present and elucidate them , to attempt to show their meaning and limitations , according to traditional historical methods . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The procedure adopted has been to allow all models to have six degrees of freedom with respect to their adjoining member . |
| 27 | Furthermore , one way of saving money has been to allow larger classes , with severe overcrowding in some urban primary classrooms . |
| 28 | ‘ Part of my life 's work since has been to research this group of orchids and encourage their cultivation . |
| 29 | One has been to include cognitive processes in the list of functions that they are trying to relate to particular brain regions or systems . |
| 30 | One of the most important historic tasks of transnational capitalism has been to include various previously excluded groups within its realm of influence . |