Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] have [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specifically on geology , Laming has published lists of theses on the UK and its offshore areas , and within Scotland , the Rolfe and Will lists have tried to be as comprehensive as possible . |
| 2 | I 'm pleased to tell you that Mr Neil Anderton has agreed to be tree warden for Nether Wyresdale . |
| 3 | At Hildesheim , not far away , the town was badly damaged during World War II and the famous Church of S. Michael has had to be almost entirely rebuilt . |
| 4 | The McGhee decision has proved to be controversial as the plaintiff never established that the defendant was a cause of his damage . |
| 5 | Observers noted that many conservatives opposed to the political and economic reforms of Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche had failed to be reselected . |
| 6 | Coun Brady said : ‘ Sheltered schemes such as the ones at Milford and Glastonbury houses have proved to be some of the housing department 's biggest success stories . |
| 7 | Until the Newsnight programme Mr Lawson had refused to be drawn on whether he would address the EMS issue . |
| 8 | Uncle Mosse had wanted to be dead there , and since he could n't achieve it for himself , his clothes had done it for him . |
| 9 | Ramon Mitra has proved to be a competent Speaker in the House of Representatives . |
| 10 | The UFD also made it clear that , since accepting the position of Minister of Equipment and Transport , Mohamed Ould Lamar had ceased to be a member of the UFD . |
| 11 | The Astra range has proved to be a tremendous success , with the launch of the new model after a £200m investment a year ago . |
| 12 | Maris Peer , Maris Piper , Pentland Crown , Pentland Dell and Pentland Squire have proved to be suitable . |
| 13 | Mr Heslop said there was no evidence to support Mr Venables ' claim that Mr Sugar had agreed there should be a ‘ balanced board ’ to protect his position ; or that Mr Sugar had agreed to be a non-executive chairman ; or that each had agreed not to try to force the other off the board . |
| 14 | Earlier in the day Mr Yeltsin had seemed to be inching toward compromise with his critics . |
| 15 | Once again , the Newbury Rally has proved to be a great success , with around 700 detector users and their families attending the weekend of events . |
| 16 | In its initial statement , UNITA said that Gen. Miguel N'Zau Puna and Gen. Tony da Costa Fernandes had asked to be relieved of their duties in order to concentrate their efforts on a resolution to the issue of the secession of the Cabinda enclave . |
| 17 | Right cause , wrong leader : Prince Charles has come to be viewed as a drunken , disorganised fop . |
| 18 | Princess Diana has agreed to be patron to Centrepoint , the London-based charity caring for the homeless , it was announced last night . |
| 19 | He looked at the dead engineer , or the man whom Van Gelder had taken to be the engineer because of his blue overalls , and examined the back of his head carefully . |
| 20 | Consequently , the United States has tended to be most vociferous about a ‘ peace process ’ when this has excluded the Soviet Union , and promised a solution which would strengthen American influence in the region . |
| 21 | That intolerable woman , she thought bitterly , had managed to become president of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre by a majority of a single vote , and Mrs Frizzell had had to be content with the vice-presidency , which office she declared gave her all the work and none of the authority . |
| 22 | This change in the UK economy has come to be known as Britain 's deindustrialization . |
| 23 | In foreign affairs Mrs Thatcher has proved to be something of a ‘ little Englander ’ . |
| 24 | In one area , Mrs Thatcher has proved to be a Keynesian on a scale unmatched by her predecessors in the recent past . |
| 25 | This turned out to he that of St. Michael 's , the Parish Church of Mottram in Longdendale — the stone tower of which church Sir Edmond Shaa had caused to be erected by the terms of his will . |
| 26 | Mr Hun Sen has pledged to be ‘ a good sport ’ , no matter what the results of the election . |
| 27 | Vera Pinder had proved to be a formidable mountain of a woman , verging on caricature , who refused to listen to a word , but kept aggressively repeating , 'Are you arresting him ? |
| 28 | Anything set up by Ron Paget has got to be suspect . ’ |
| 29 | A MOTHER who abandoned her child at a Merseyside hospital has returned to be reunited with the youngster . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Queen Charlotte had asked to be the dedicatee of some of Mozart 's works which Leopold duly had engraved at his own expense ( K.10–15 , sonatas for keyboard and violin or flute and 'cello , published as op.III ) . |