Example sentences of "have be [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the characteristic response of both terrestrial and marine organisms to the pronounced climatic changes of the Pleistocene has been to migrate to ecological refuges , in effect to track their environment . |
| 2 | The traditional Keynesian view of the conduct of monetary policy has been to assign to it the role of interest rate and/or exchange rate stabilization . |
| 3 | ‘ We must ensure that the support materials we prepare for teachers are as closely tied in with the demands of the curriculum as possible , especially with the new 5 – 14 guidelines , and my first priority has been to talk to Educational Advisers throughout Scotland . |
| 4 | The argument herein has been to point to a range of images , which focused not so much on sociological types ( conformist and delinquent behaviour ) , but on those pertaining to occupations , education , and the psychological state of ‘ personality ’ . |
| 5 | The true success of the American skiing industry has been to adapt to the ageing of its customers . |
| 6 | Thus for much of the period government policy has been to consent to , or actively encourage , mergers . |
| 7 | Up to and including the 1988 social security changes , the basic policy response to the growing numbers of lone-parent families has been to add to or modify the existing system of benefits rather than make any fundamental changes . |
| 8 | It seems that the only recourse a sufferer now has is to appeal to the landlord . |
| 9 | The only recompe the only resource anyone has is to go to the courts , for the courts to decide what the law is at that present moment . |
| 10 | The sensible thing would have been to turn to someone , some sympathetic teacher , perhaps . |
| 11 | ( A man 's reaction about small type would have been to point to the scale and demand it be paid extra ! ) |
| 12 | I mean , the sensible thing would have been to go to her room , would n't it ? |
| 13 | To admit to hunger would have been to admit to my disease , and so be robbed of it . |
| 14 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 15 | Her only plan had been to get to her cousin and retrieve the jade . |
| 16 | Her first reaction to her baby 's birth had been to cable to him that he had a son . |
| 17 | Their first action had been to run to the comms unit , only to find it disabled . |
| 18 | In that first heart-stopping moment when he realised that it really was her , his impulse had been to run to her , to grab her in his arms and smother her with kisses , to chide her for not waiting until he came back to make her his wife . |
| 19 | Sorry , I wanted to make two points , I think there 's a big difference between foresters like yourself and the people who 're actually out there logging , and you know , I have no doubt about the work you do at the Oxford Forestry Institute , and several of your tutors and lecturers have been to talk to us , and Friends of the Earth certainly is calling for sustainable management forestry . |
| 20 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |