Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument herein has been to point to a range of images , which focused not so much on sociological types ( conformist and delinquent behaviour ) , but on those pertaining to occupations , education , and the psychological state of ‘ personality ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Part of my life 's work since has been to research this group of orchids and encourage their cultivation . |
| 3 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 4 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 5 | These , referred to in his diary , may just have been to illustrate special copies of other authors ' guide books . |
| 6 | The basic purpose of obscenity laws is and always has been to reinforce cultural taboos on sexuality and suppress feminism , homosexuality and other forms of sexual dissidence . |
| 7 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 8 | His most effective action so far has been to deflect the corruption allegations by recruiting Spain 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ to stand alongside him as a Socialist candidate . |
| 9 | The purpose of our discussion so far has been to demonstrate that there are important patterns of change that are not readily captured in a paradigm that measures a unilinear scale of phonetic variation against a unilinear scale of socio-economic class . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 12 | The value of the political talks so far has been to expose three basic truths . |
| 13 | To my mind , the major contribution of econometrics to our understanding of advertising so far has been to establish the relatively marginal effect of advertising expenditure level changes in comparison with price changes : typically , price movements relative to competition seem to account for as much as 70–80 per cent of the changes in brand shares in a market . |
| 14 | The only problem so far has been to anchor the device when the current gets too strong . |
| 15 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 16 | The aim of the discussion so far has been to show that tragedy arises from the spirit of music and is bound to perish without it . |
| 17 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 18 | However , he points out that all that has been achieved by dowsing until now has been to locate the points of entry into the tunnels beneath the Alexandrov Kremlin , and some archaeologists are not even sure of this , regarding what has been found there as simply the old moats . |
| 19 | Thus his first action on returning to the Questura the day before had been to send his inspectors out to question the people living in the houses along the road to Cannara and talk to the local farmers , just in case anyone had seen anything . |
| 20 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 21 | A major reason for surrogacy arrangements in Western countries today has been to allow men in heterosexual couples to continue their ’ bloodline ’ when their partners , the women , have fertility problems . |
| 22 | The main idea here has been to exploit the existence of particles known as ‘ muons ’ which in some ways behave like electrons , but are some 207 times heavier and are unstable . |
| 23 | A major contribution here has been to demonstrate that such social problems are the product of social structural arrangements and not the consequences of individual or personal qualities ( see above on individualistic versus sociological explanations ) . |
| 24 | I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum . |
| 25 | Although intended to further curtail local government expenditure — by requiring authorities to meet any unforeseen expenditure from existing budgets — the effect may well have been to persuade local authorities to set high initial rates ( to provide adequate balances to meet unexpected contingencies or loss of income ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , the intention of the English negotiators when the Second Treaty of London was drawn up may well have been to make the French an offer they would be bound to refuse . |
| 27 | The effect on the jury might well have been to make them wonder why W did not answer if he was innocent . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the educational background of many radio staff may well have been to blame for the overly formal tone of many programmes , which frequently caused them to sound stilted and unnatural . |
| 29 | The effect of these operations must surely have been to shorten the war . |
| 30 | Their purpose in coming here had been to intercede for the soul of Colonel Fergusson . |