Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [vb pp] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 2 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 3 | The McGhee decision has proved to be controversial as the plaintiff never established that the defendant was a cause of his damage . |
| 4 | In good British fashion , however , that change has tended to be piecemeal rather than comprehensive . |
| 5 | Moreover each kind has continued to be important ; it is not a simple question of successive stages . |
| 6 | The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right . |
| 7 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 8 | Allen ( 1983 ) argued that provided treatment is directed at the underlying cause , most leg ulcers will heal spontaneously , which experience has proved to be true . |
| 9 | The Association has continued to be active since 1946 , monitoring the progress of new towns and seeking to further the principles and practice of good planning . |
| 10 | The link with Labour has got to be more than just signing a cheque . |
| 11 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 12 | However , so far the attitude has tended to be sympathetic — it is not , after all , in the creditors ' interests to exclude a member and thereby reduce earning potential . |
| 13 | But now that the question has ceased to be one of recognition , the theoretical possibility of rebuttal must exist . |
| 14 | The underlying philosophy has tried to be selective in aiming at farmers with intermediate and non-viable enterprises . |
| 15 | Yet most people would agree that the fax machine has got to be one of life 's easier contraptions to master . |
| 16 | Hateley has got to be one of the best target me in Britain . |
| 17 | In some cases such strife has proved to be recurrent over twenty years , as in Zaire , Sudan , and Burundi and in others more or less endemic , as in Chad and Uganda and in Ethiopia in its fight to contain Eritrea . |
| 18 | The product has proved to be stable over the anticipated lifespan of the building and has advantages over alternative methods of roof insulation , namely , energy efficiency , ease of installation and speed of erection . |
| 19 | Existing published research on French primary education has tended to be quantitative in style with a strong statistical emphasis . |
| 20 | A lot of modern art has tended to be that way , often abstract art , that people think is meaningless , is in fact full of very serious messages if only people are willing to listen to them . |
| 21 | Raising money for charity has got to be worthwhile . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , this evidence has tended to be fragmentary , a collection of separate , discrete pieces of information lacking a synthesizing theory to provide cohesion and predictive power . |
| 23 | Derek 's nickname has proved to be spot-on this season , The Sizzler has really been sizzling on the field ! |
| 24 | You know , I mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day , so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them . |
| 25 | This strategy has proved to be successful . |
| 26 | The operability in the past has tended to be low . |
| 27 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |
| 28 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 29 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 30 | Hugh Price Hughes chastised the 1896 Free Church Council meetings for its vociferousness and insisted that all should ‘ submit to those restraints and regulations which the experience of the greatest representative assemblies of the world has proved to be necessary to an intelligent participation in the business as it proceeds ’ . |