Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various other studies have , however , attempted to do this ; the usual technique has been to suggest that it is a particular psychological characteristic that is inherited and which leads ‘ naturally ’ to crime . |
| 2 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 3 | The response to parental discontent and pupil underachievement has been to try to design curriculum guidelines . |
| 4 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 5 | The essentials of the problem have been thoroughly analysed in the past few years ; the difficulty has been to obtain international agreement on solutions . |
| 6 | Perhaps the main defence has been to construct an imagined community of resistance which cuts across all internal divisions by emphasizing the levelling effects of racist oppression . |
| 7 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 8 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 9 | Another response has been to withdraw from " commodity " type financial markets ( such as commercial paper , foreign exchange and government bonds ) , where profitability is low , in favour of more specialised activities which generate fee income , and require less capital then does trading or issuance . |
| 10 | Their response has been to aim for legislative repeal or reform . |
| 11 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 12 | These changes have resulted in growing financial hardship amongst many students , and one response has been to seek to combine term-time part-time employment with full-time study . |
| 13 | The government 's response has been to impose an unpopular and inflationary emergency programme . |
| 14 | ACET 's response has been to provide clients with special tubes for the disposal of dirty needles and syringes or help them if they wish to cease injecting . |
| 15 | The BMC 's response has been to offer to install abseil points and lower-off stations on the Horseshoe Bend area and to apply for assistance from the Sports Council for stabilising work |
| 16 | The dual responsibilities , to the employer and to the profession , remain problematic : the professional response has been to offer on-line access to ethical guidance . |
| 17 | Officialdom 's response has been to throw more money at the problem . |
| 18 | Their main response has been to campaign for fairer representation of women among psychologists . |
| 19 | The Government response has been to accept these recommendations in principle ‘ subject to further consideration being given to timing and the availability of resources ’ ( Government Response to Benson , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | The main task of sensory neurophysiology has been to establish in more precise detail how ‘ the diversity of working produceth diversity of experience ’ — the modern term for which is ‘ coding of sensory information ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The trick has been to maintain added value and justify those loans , ’ he says . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mum has been to stay , on an epic wedding outfit hunt last Saturday , and it was nice to give her a room . |
| 24 | One of Watson 's main contributions to the development of the Modular Course has been to build in evaluation mechanisms at many levels , to foster positive attitudes to evaluation by using evaluation data in course development and not to shrink from its application to his own roles and activities . |
| 25 | My main part has been to design an adjustable bracket to attach to the alternator and tension the pulley . |
| 26 | One of the key developments for the Board has been to prioritise the role of marketing . |
| 27 | The extent of Michael 's ‘ multi-media ’ experience has been to take some Polaroid shots of drawings of his dog . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 30 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |