Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency in the past has been to restrict or cut down on plant proteins and increase animal protein in the diet . |
| 2 | The naturalistic instinct has been to claim that mind somehow creates generality in a sense stronger than that which Aristotle allows ; it does not merely release generality from its potential state in matter , but fabricates it . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | An important job for the force has been to collect and disseminate examples of good practice . |
| 5 | The purpose of these calculations has been to demonstrate that rising average cost is consistent with natural monopoly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One objective of the more recent theories has been to try and reconcile this apparent conflict in the different sets of statistical results . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The essence of government intervention has been to limit and distort competition rather than to encourage it , to the detriment of the poorer areas . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yes it 's alright , it 's time go , she want 's to come and watch you go . |
| 16 | I 'm not saying we have done this in an ad hoc way up to now but what we want is to try and develop a programme for this and I think that should be a very useful and , and frankly I would expect it to grow er over the years as the need develops . |
| 17 | ‘ All I want is to stand and look at you , dear boy ! ’ he said . |
| 18 | The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules . |
| 19 | Honestly , girl , if you only knew where I 'd been to try and find you ! ’ |
| 20 | Well yes what what you 've got to try and do is to divide and rule . |
| 21 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 22 | But we do not know the real essences of the substances of natural philosophy , so all that we can do is to observe and list their properties , and form only beliefs and opinions about them . |
| 23 | Mr makes there was an under , enumeration of figures and that has been made clear in the reply the reply is quite clear about the basis on which the structure plan is being promulgated and the total projected total population in two thousand and six regards the historical data , that should be taken , as far as I 'm concerned , as matters of fact , will of course not be absolutely accurate and as far as projected data is concerned all that we can do any of us can do is to try and make the best estimates possible and I am satisfied that our officers will have done that . |
| 24 | All we can do is to try and insure against the possibility of ill-judged disposal by some sort of division of labour . |
| 25 | He says : ‘ The fans have been frustrated because we have n't scored but all we can do is to try and put it right . |
| 26 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 27 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 28 | The most important factor to remember is to think or allow . |
| 29 | For any Singer knitters out there who find they are struggling to understand the machine — the only advice I can give is to persevere and experiment . |
| 30 | All she 'd done was to try and help Travis a little at a very bad time in his life , and just look at the aggravation she was getting for her trouble ! |