Example sentences of "[been] [to-vb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In establishing its parameters for employment land provision of county in its eight constituent districts , the County Council 's intention has been to sustain and improve the economic wellbeing of the county by ensuring that continuous supply and a wide choice of sites can be made available . |
| 2 | Sir : The Institute of Statisticians ' role over the last 40 years has been to promote and protect the professional integrity of statisticians not only in this country but in the many others covered by our membership ( 'Wide support for impartial check on official statistics ' , 10 October ) . |
| 3 | I rise to break my Trappist vow of six years to say how honoured and privileged I have been to attend and take part in this debate . |
| 4 | Essentially the approach has been to try and identify the factors or characteristics that are associated with cases or situations of abuse , to assume that these are qualitatively different from the rest of the population and finally to hypothesize that these factors or characteristics in some way relate to the basic cause(s) of the problem . |
| 5 | Well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations , but what Virgin are doing is using Richard Branson 's personal money to try and expand out of trouble . |
| 6 | The official reaction to these changes ( more fully discussed in Chapter 9 ) has been to try and persuade farmers to adopt a more conservationist attitude , notably on unproductive land ( Leonard and Cobham , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | One objective of the more recent theories has been to try and reconcile this apparent conflict in the different sets of statistical results . |
| 8 | Honestly , girl , if you only knew where I 'd been to try and find you ! ’ |
| 9 | Prior to this riot , the Johnson administration 's strategy had been to try and eradicate the possibility of further disorder by tackling the chronic social problems highlighted by the riots . |
| 10 | The Sergeant walked past inspecting the kit , finding fault everywhere ; my mistake had been to try and conceal an unwashed pair of pants in my bag . |
| 11 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 12 | The tendency in the past has been to restrict or cut down on plant proteins and increase animal protein in the diet . |
| 13 | And , of course , a central concern of feminism has been to identify and fight against the kinds of coercion to which women have been subjected , including things like physical violence and economic dependence . |
| 14 | It is evident , even from this brief review of the Act , that its overall effect has been to legitimise and encourage numerous police practices ( e.g. stop and search , roadblocks , forcible entry ) which have consistently alienated and antagonised large sections of society — notably , black communities and trade-unionists — and had the accumulated effect of generating public disorder . |
| 15 | Where he is addressing the converted , so to speak , he can say that his intention may have been to reinforce or confirm views already held rather than to stir up hatred . |
| 16 | erm Indonesia 's policy in the past has been to clear and resettle excess population from Java , into the other , into Sumatra and town , the two other islands bordering over Sumatra . |
| 17 | If you could imagine yourself being without the radio , T. V. , or telephone then you just might come close to imagining how difficult it must have been to spread or hand on the message of Christianity . |
| 18 | The plan had been to locate and rescue a seriously injured woman . |
| 19 | Equally , to sanction an attack upon noble landownership would have been to alienate and undermine the prime basis of support for autocracy . |
| 20 | An important job for the force has been to collect and disseminate examples of good practice . |
| 21 | The essence of government intervention has been to limit and distort competition rather than to encourage it , to the detriment of the poorer areas . |