Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 2 | The writers who have developed the systems approach , however , have been at pains to emphasise that organisations should not be viewed merely as closed systems ; to do this is to adopt a very static picture of how they operate ( Elliott , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Anthropologists have been at pains to stress the variety of accepted institutional arrangements which regulate the relations between the sexes in different societies . |
| 4 | The present owners run the High Rocks Inn and its grounds as a commercial enterprise , and local climbers have been at pains to create a harmonious relationship between themselves and the owners . |
| 5 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 7 | But the reaction of the most senior members of the judiciary — the Law Lords , the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls — was felt by many of the general public , I believe , to conflict with the image which the judiciary have been at pains to promote . |
| 8 | So far I have been at pains to make a clear distinction between these two modes . |
| 9 | Mr Aldous and his senior partners have been at pains to ensure that this danger has been minimised at Robson Rhodes . |
| 10 | Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall . |
| 11 | I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline . |
| 12 | In fact Labour governments ( in 1965 and 68 ) have been at pains to prove that they are just as good at keeping out the blacks as the Tories . |
| 13 | In a sense this was false , as recent historians have been at pains to prove . |
| 14 | The sale of council housing to sitting tenants is a national initiative and local authorities have been under pressure to carry it through . |
| 15 | A magnificent example of the ‘ Paxford says ’ routine is provided when Maureen and Minto have been into Oxford to get two wireless sets on approval . |
| 16 | Bateson explained : ‘ The League have been in contact to say that when they informed the FA of the meeting , they were told that no matter what the egm approved the FA would not sanction any agreement which would produce more than 24 clubs in any one division . |
| 17 | Kim 's parents from Oxfordshire have been in court to hear three days of evidence . |
| 18 | He tells me that Spurs have been in touch to say their computer was knackered ( bloody things , who wants em ? ) so there is a delay in sending them out , but we are getting some . |
| 19 | Many of these people , training providers , employers and job seekers have been in touch to tell us how worthwhile the events were . |