Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guillaume 's notion of a representation of person as a support within the infinitive has proven to be extremely fruitful for explaining the uses of this form discussed above . |
| 2 | Its underwater design is a refinement of the ‘ pure centerboard ’ concept that has proven to be so fast and seaworthy on the race course in Ted Hood 's series of Robins . |
| 3 | This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew . |
| 4 | Despite the ‘ wisteria ’ , cricket has come to be quietly alive to capitalism . |
| 5 | Michèe Barrett refers in her essay to the ‘ turn to culture ’ in recent feminist work , and Griselda Pollock 's long essay in the volume Painting , Feminism , History gives us some idea of why culture ( in this case the visual arts ) has come to be so central . |
| 6 | Often the " essence " has been seen in terms which wider study of religions has shown to be too narrow or too idiosyncratic or in ways which undermine the significance of the external forms of religious traditions . |
| 7 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 8 | This is another way in which Highlander has had to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to changing needs . |
| 9 | As well as the usual precautions that apply when running a site with more than 300 people on it , Wimpey has had to be especially careful in a number of areas on the Gyle project . |
| 10 | Your organization has got to be just right you know . |
| 11 | ‘ It shows that investigations should not be based on the gut feeling of a particular officer — it has got to be more professional and CATCHEM is . |
| 12 | This brings him back to another of Mr Major 's weekend promises , to give people more of a stake in their local administration : ‘ If they are going to bring local government closer to people , it has got to be more responsive to the wishes of people , and less to the wishes of central Government . |
| 13 | Mexico is a country with over three thousand years of continuous civilization , but knowledge of its history , culture and people has tended to be either minimal or — worse — affected by the kind of stereotypes we acquire from film or television . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And he has attempted to be equally frank in fashioning the NES , a task that has been spread over 18 months and umpteen public hearings . |
| 16 | It has attempted to be very explicit about what it considers to be unnecessary local expenditure . |
| 17 | The major disadvantage of the textual materialist perspective is its complete failure to confront the autobiographical dimension in more recent examples of nouveau roman writing , which has proved to be increasingly fertile in the 1980s . |
| 18 | TAC SPELLS TRANSPARENCY IN ACTION An old-style committee has proved to be particularly good at meeting the requirements of openness and accountability |
| 19 | THE Passion Flower ( Passiflora caerulea ) is the most popular of this large family of 500 species , because it has proved to be remarkably hardy in many parts of Britain . |
| 20 | We saw in Chapter 2 how the classical economists rested their belief in the inherent tendency towards a state of full employment upon an analysis of the functioning of the labour market which has proved to be both durable and compelling . |
| 21 | ‘ This has proved to be completely false as none of the lorries we have seen being used have been sealed . ’ |
| 22 | The monopoly over the initiation of proceedings has proved to be most contentious in relation to claims assessors who deal with accident claims on a contingency basis taking part of the compensation as remuneration . |
| 23 | Gravity data are expressed relative to a base 5km from the summit which has proved to be gravitationally invariant with respect to other stations further down the volcano flanks and off the volcano . |
| 24 | The particular bridge shown in figure 7.8(a) that was first suggested by Schering has proved to be extremely versatile and capable of high accuracy with respect to measuring capacitance . |
| 25 | Bowling at Dundonald International Ice Bowl has proved to be extremely popular . |
| 26 | Our accommodation in Alsopahok is at the Hotel Pansio Heviz , which has proved to be extremely popular with New Millennium passengers over the years . |
| 27 | This procedure has been used extensively to analyse the CAAT repeat region from several different lic loci derived from a variety of H.influenzae strains and has proved to be highly reproducible . |
| 28 | The HEARSAY project [ Erman et al , 1980 ] used this architecture and has proved to be highly influential ( albeit less than completely successful ) as an example of collaboration between different levels of processing . |
| 29 | SOFFEX also launched an options contract on the Swiss Market Index ( SMI ) in 1988 which has proved to be highly successful and accounts for over half of the exchange 's annual turnover . |
| 30 | A stand-up , straight-backed style has proved to be less effective against professional opponents although Biggs claims that attempts to make him more aggressive were counter-productive against Tyson . |