Example sentences of "approach have [been] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The other approach has been to argue that rats have difficulty with passive avoidance because they can not remember recent events .
2 One answer to such a detailed approach has been to revitalize the notion of large-scale geomorphology for example ( Gardner and Scoging , 1983 ) but another has been to concentrate upon human activity as providing a focus centred around the central system ( p. 156 ) .
3 The Government 's approach has been to tackle the misuse of knives by tightening the law on possession of knives in public .
4 In the case of lawyers the standard radical approach has been to assume the theoretical need for a concept ‘ profession ’ , and then to redefine the content of this concept .
5 Another approach has been to consider how a monster or family of monsters , if they did indeed exist in the loch , might be able to survive in a freshwater environment .
6 The other approach has been to study our closest living relative , the chimpanzee .
7 The traditional approach has been to model procedural rights by analogy to ordinary court procedure ; the principles of natural justice reflect an adversarial-adjudicative conception of process rights .
8 As observed in Chapter 1 , the Thatcher government 's general approach has been to couple the application within the public sector of those private managerial techniques perceived as most conducive to value for money — notably objective setting and performance measurement — with an increasing encouragement to greater consumer responsiveness .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Most appropriately , his approach has been to break through the author 's privacy , effectively dragging him out of the closet and giving an imaginative frame to the book by presenting the deplorable facts of Burroughs 's life .
12 One approach has been to make synthetic double stranded RNA molecule– which can mimic the effect of viral double-stranded RNA as an inducer of interferon production .
13 Ian Leckie , Quakers ' community development officer , said : ‘ The traditional approach has been to run on with a bucket and the magic sponge . ’
14 While some manufacturers advocated the latter , a more popular approach has been to build computers out of conventional processors so that many current programs and , more importantly , programming concepts , can be recycled .
15 The Project 's approach has been to build up the confidence and self-awareness of different groups to a stage where contact and co-operation among them will be facilitated .
16 But they added that in spite of their own reservations about the use of pre-registration house officers , ‘ the Scottish Office told us that their approach had been to enable as many rural hospitals to provide accident and emergency departments as it was feasible , practicable and safe to do so . ’
17 In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction .
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