Example sentences of "[noun prp] has been [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 2 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 3 | Mark Kiff has been to weigh them up |
| 4 | The initial aim of the Institute at Buea has been to assemble reliable information on the most appropriate way of preparing pupils and school leavers for integration into the life and work of communities . |
| 5 | I think we have to recognize that the effect of these images and the conflicts from which they spring in Brent or Bradford has been to call into question any antiracist or multicultural project in education and indeed the idea of antiracism in general . |
| 6 | The traditional role of governments in the UK has been to ease the pressures on both companies and individuals by some form of intervention — subsidies , loans or payments etc . |
| 7 | One of the traditional planks of Labour Party policy in the UK has been to own the " commanding heights ' of the economy , though it is never completely clear what these include . |
| 8 | The point to note here is that it is the lower-wage countries for which this is the case and the crucial impact of the TNCs has been to create intense pressure to keep down labour costs in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 9 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 10 | The major production innovation at Kalmar has been to do away with the track . |
| 11 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
| 12 | Claire McGahan has been to visit Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor to try and uncover the secret of success that has put the Co Down girls ' school into the spotlight . |
| 13 | But perhaps her greatest achievement with the chimps at Gombe has been to show how astonishingly close they are to humanity — and so to narrow the gap between us and the rest of the animal world . |
| 14 | One of the battles my friends and I have had since coming to Rhodesia has been to stay out of the little box into which some people would like to pop us . |
| 15 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 16 | And yes , the youth Diniz Vasquez has been to see me . |
| 17 | The outstanding achievement of Habermas has been to demonstrate the way in which psychoanalysis has an importance as the science of self-reflection , based , as it is , on the unravelling of distorted forms of communication . |
| 18 | The influence of Bruner has been to encourage teachers to define certain organising concepts which underpin the methodology of a subject . |
| 19 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |
| 20 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 21 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |