Example sentences of "has [been] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 2 | There the trend has been to turn waste into energy by incineration — energy recovery . |
| 3 | Since the prime function of many layers of middle management has been to transmit information which can be far more efficiently transmitted by modern technology , there is now no longer any need for their employment . |
| 4 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 5 | We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them . |
| 6 | Although my brief has been to examine animal communication , I am bound to be asked whether the Darwinian approach can add anything to understanding the connections between what animals do and what we do . |
| 7 | A major part of the Conservative agenda has been to undermine socialism and develop a contemporary form of laissez-faire market economics , to move Britain from a culture of dependency to the enterprise culture . |
| 8 | In circumstances in which the opinion leaders and policy-makers in adult education have responded to the women 's movement at all , it has been to co-opt feminism into their platitudes , whilst at the same time seeking to deflect and defeat the radical intention of women 's liberation as it might be applied in adult education and society generally . |
| 9 | The intention has been to stimulate interest within the British Airways engineering community towards AI based solutions to engineering diagnostics problems . |
| 10 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |
| 11 | One solution has been to create university departments of integrated environmental science or of earth sciences . |
| 12 | One of the errors attributable to constructivist rationalism has been to view law as a prescription posited by authority ; that is , of equating law with legislation . |
| 13 | The effect has been to leave DGIV acting as both prosecutor and judge in competition cases , which is unacceptable . |
| 14 | One solution , especially in the remoter and poorer areas , has been to shed labour and reduce costs . |
| 15 | General manager of C&TL is Ken Arkley : ‘ Our first priority has been to devise technology and catalysts for our own , internal use . |
| 16 | In those countries where the royalty has already been introduced one option chosen by some governments has been to use part of the income from the levy to set up a fund to give special help to the national music scene . |
| 17 | For years , the traditional method has been to use phonetics ; learning how each letter sounds and building up a word . |
| 18 | As we have already seen , the law has been less ready to protect these interests from negligently inflicted harm than it has been to protect person and tangible property , but we are now concerned only with liability for intended harm . |
| 19 | And the effect has been to reduce truth to timeliness , morality to usefulness and personal faith to a matter of what is fashionable . |
| 20 | The extraordinary depth and length of the recession is partly to blame , since one effect has been to reduce wastage rates still further . |
| 21 | The effect of the recession has been to reduce membership numbers to the level of 15 years ago , with a drop of 10,000 in 1992 , and an even greater proportionate fall in the number of examination candidates . |
| 22 | He called for action to tackle the difficulties without ‘ shaming the reputation of this country and infringing the civil liberties of a few helpless people whose only sin has been to seek freedom and our protection ’ . |
| 23 | With the growing pressures to develop more efficient , flexible and ‘ commercial ’ state organizations , the tendency has been to transfer trading activities from departments of state to public corporations , as with the British Post Office at the end of the 1960s and the Italian railways in the mid-1980s . |
| 24 | Another approach has been to apply regime theory as developed by political scientists to areas regulated by international law.150 — In all cases , a particular claim would have to be carefully examined to determine the legitimacy of an erga omnes claim , which can not be presumed . |
| 25 | It also points out in in in in the report , that this income has been to meet expenditure of thirty-two thousand pounds for the number of services , and the remainder of this , has been with additional insurance costs . |
| 26 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 27 | Perhaps the greatest contribution which our primary schools have made to education since the war has been to focus attention upon the child as a whole , unique human being . |
| 28 | South Africa 's reply has been to attack transport and economic installations that link the neighbours so as to ensure that they remain dependent on South Africa . |
| 29 | ‘ My objective has been to strengthen recovery by giving help to business . ’ |
| 30 | His main mission in life for the last ten years , as chief executive of an organization called Business in the Community ( BitC ) , has been to cut unemployment and regenerate the inner cities . |