Example sentences of "been [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 2 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 3 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 4 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |
| 5 | In the first belong those economic historians whose primary concern has been to re-examine the overall economic performance of Russian agriculture . |
| 6 | One largely unforeseen consequence of rural housing policies has therefore been to increase the relative deprivation of low-paid rural workers ( and their newly married offspring ) . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Franco believed that one of General Primo de Rivera 's mistakes had been to establish the provisional nature of his regime at the outset . |
| 9 | The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme onto the existing structure of private practice . |
| 10 | The plan had allegedly been to bomb the main parade stand at the celebrations of Armed Forces Day on June 1 at La Coruña , and then to blame the incident on the Basque separatist organization ETA [ see below ] and to organize a military coup in the aftermath . |
| 11 | One of the more pleasant surprises , on a protracted visit to The Towers in January , had been to meet the new bride at the Hall . |
| 12 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
| 20 | The aim has been to combine the old architecture with new building that relies on traditional materials and a degree of craftsmanship . |
| 21 | The loan had been to buy the second-hand Sierra , and then had been topped up to cover repairs required by the M.O.T. ; and then increased again when Sara 's Mini had just died on her , expired in the middle of the village with 110,000 miles on the tombstone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A healthy trend in recent scholarship has been to avoid the old tendency to make excessive claims concerning the role of either the United States or Britain in the creation of Nato . |
| 24 | Another attraction of relational systems has been to enhance the searching facilities as with the work by Gallagher et al . |
| 25 | The aim of the programme had been to divide the big farms into smaller plots and to redistribute the land to the workers , but it had bred uncertainty among landowners and entrepreneurs many of whom , unwilling to part with their property , had delayed investment . |
| 26 | The aim of the series has been to record the domestic interior through contemporary visual records such as paintings , prints and drawings . |
| 27 | The ‘ solution ’ found for this problem has been to finance the uncovered interest by expanding the money supply . |
| 28 | In the past , the main method of predicting population has been to extend the present curve . |
| 29 | The innovation has been to abandon the unitary form of organization in favour of the multidivisional ( or " M " ) form . |
| 30 | In business organizations the increasing tendency has been to use the basic financial statements as a measure of performance . |