Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since both bodies are appointed by , or on the advice of , government they have come to be seen by some as a buffer between the state and the broadcasters but by others as an indirect mechanism by which the state can exert control over broadcasting . |
| 2 | It should be noted , however , that we will not be concerned with an explanation of why football fans and ‘ non-academic pupils ’ as opposed to other groups of boys and girls have come to be cast in this way . |
| 3 | Strangely , lesbians have come to be categorised as a ‘ low risk group ’ for HIV infection . |
| 4 | Hence the words man , mankind , humanity have come to be treated as interchangeable synonyms . |
| 5 | Also , conditions inside the three planets could be sufficiently different that different proportions of their volatile endowments have come to be withheld from the atmospheres . |
| 6 | In this article I shall reveal how certain 20th-century re-orchestrations and other distortions have come to be played on 18th-century instruments . |
| 7 | The commentator 's ingenuous query could just as well have been prompted , however , by an unrelated but somehow symptomatic display of the insensitivity and obstinacy that have come to be regarded as part of Kohl 's character . |
| 8 | For example , as expectations have changed during this century , first indoor running water , then hot water , and finally an indoor fixed bathroom have come to be regarded as necessities . |
| 9 | The recent attempt by Clive Pearman , the chief superintendent in charge of Notting Hill , to persuade the two local councils to cut off funds to voluntary orgnanisations which he considered inimical was an example of an approach whose shortcomings have come to be appreciated at the Yard . |
| 10 | People said at the time that the war had been fought for the children , for a better future , and the 1950s represent a watershed in the historical process by which children have come to be thought of as repositories of hope , and objects of desire . |
| 11 | Accompanying these changes in the policy and organisation of the church was the growth of new developments in theology , which have come to be known as the Theology of Liberation . |
| 12 | I also want to address two more complex issues in textual and sexual theory : firstly , the political implications of poststructuralist attempts to discredit notions of authorial agency ; and secondly , the related debates in gay theory around what have come to be known as the poles of ‘ essentialism ’ and ‘ social constructionism ’ ( terms I will elaborate on later ) . |
| 13 | Such express declarations have come to be known as Living Wills , and have received much attention in the United States and elsewhere . |
| 14 | Early in 1985 FTA began discussions with representatives from Customs & Excise on the range of issues that have come to be known as Customs 88 . |
| 15 | It combines , therefore , what have come to be known as structure and conjoncture , the permanent and the ephemeral , the slow moving and the fast . ’ |
| 16 | One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard . |
| 17 | Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance . |
| 18 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
| 19 | A NUMBER of companies have applied to be included in the ‘ say it with flowers ’ advertisement scheme on Cheshire 's roundabouts . |
| 20 | Rejecting this offer outright , Alatas said that the government would not even respond , as " the overwhelming majority of East Timor people have decided to be integrated with Indonesia " . |
| 21 | Selection committees have tended to be influenced by an applicant 's knowledge of the constituency , his or her stature and delivery of speech , and whether there are the makings of a good " constituency member " ( one who will represent diligently the interests of constituents ) or , in some cases , of a national figure . |
| 22 | Index linked National Savings Certificates were popular up until the early 1980's , but with a fall in inflation they have tended to be eclipsed by the popularity of fixed interest certificates which accounted for about 16 per cent of total assets in 1990 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 25 | As a result , village shops have tended to be replaced by supermarkets or shopping centres in nearby towns ( Harman 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Such centrally funded schemes have tended to be supported by claims that it is only by central intervention that particular objectives can be achieved . |
| 27 | Problems that can not be resolved by reasoned debate have tended to be ignored in the hope that they will go away . |
| 28 | Traditionally , skilled jobs have tended to be defined as those requiring apprenticeships . |
| 29 | Until recently , however , native maps and mapping have tended to be treated as curiosities and in very narrow contexts . |
| 30 | Until recently , he complains , theories of literacy have tended to be based on instructional techniques rather than linguistic theory : research on reading has been dominated by experimental psychology , with the kinds of results we saw above ( Chapter 1 ) . |