Example sentences of "[verb] be [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto the universal election-time practice of Greek governments , of left or right , has been to spend more money and go easy on taxes . |
| 2 | Everything has turned to gold and the inevitable consequence has been to turn individual acts of generosity and compassion into transactions with monetary consequences . |
| 3 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 4 | The main effect of the 1980 Act has been to reinforce earlier borrowing controls by expenditure controls , thereby bringing ‘ all capital spending [ by local authorities ] within the scope of control ’ ( Travers , 1986 , p. 142 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Government policy in the 1980s has been to oppose any increase in the country 's dollar debt , which remains at the manageable level of $5.5 million . |
| 7 | Another tactic has been to give greater scope to consumers vis-à-vis public sector groups . |
| 8 | The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The traditional role of mother and baby units in psychiatry has been to treat acute postpartum mental illness without separating the mother from the infant . |
| 11 | Ha aim has been to return British society to that former ‘ golden age ’ . |
| 12 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am by training and profession an historian ; my role has been to collect these documents , to present and elucidate them , to attempt to show their meaning and limitations , according to traditional historical methods . |
| 15 | Her lifelong mission has been to counter fundamentalist hypocrisy in any form , but she admits she 'd now like to resolve the conflict with her mother . |
| 16 | The procedure adopted has been to allow all models to have six degrees of freedom with respect to their adjoining member . |
| 17 | Furthermore , one way of saving money has been to allow larger classes , with severe overcrowding in some urban primary classrooms . |
| 18 | ‘ Part of my life 's work since has been to research this group of orchids and encourage their cultivation . |
| 19 | One has been to include cognitive processes in the list of functions that they are trying to relate to particular brain regions or systems . |
| 20 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 21 | For neurophysiologists and neuropsychologists , the way forward in understanding perception has been to correlate these dimensions of experience with , firstly , the material properties of the experienced object or event ( usually regarded as the ‘ stimulus ’ ) and , secondly , the patterns of discharges in the sensory system . |
| 22 | ‘ The overall effect has been to sustain apparent sales volumes and reduce work in progress . |
| 23 | For years , an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun . |
| 24 | The extent of Michael 's ‘ multi-media ’ experience has been to take some Polaroid shots of drawings of his dog . |
| 25 | The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community . |
| 26 | One solution to the problems caused by the withdrawal of rail transport in rural areas has been to replace these services with buses . |
| 27 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 28 | Traditionally the records of these transactions have tended to be stored on parchment , vellum or paper and the job of the archive has been to preserve these information storage media . |
| 29 | The key economic objective has been to improve overall living standards by means of a high GNP growth rate . |
| 30 | The motive behind the shake-up has been to improve post-16 education . |