Example sentences of "[vb -s] have [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although it is argued that fear of punitive jury awards has made the US business safety-conscious , quite a price has had to be paid for that by way of corporate and insurance company bankruptcy , the closing of municipal facilities and the practice of defensive medicine . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in . |
| 3 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |
| 4 | And now a third major part has had to be changed . |
| 5 | A government-financed horticulture nursery in Belfast falsified the value of its plants for 13 years to the extent that more than £500,000 of public money has had to be written off . |
| 6 | The National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog , in a report published yesterday estimates that another £330 million has had to be paid out to cover ‘ premature maintenance . ’ |
| 7 | The Lanes ' vat has had to be fitted with a new stainless steel liner . |
| 8 | It has covered 1000ha ( 2,500 acres ) of silaging work and nothing — pto apart — has had to be modified . |
| 9 | Unofficial EC estimates suggest that provision has had to be made for about £2 billion in the £28 billion borrowing requirement for 1992–93 as a result of the policy shift . |
| 10 | This is another way in which Highlander has had to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to changing needs . |
| 11 | So far the evidence for drinking water prosecutions has had to be wrung from the Water Authorities themselves . |
| 12 | As A. G. Street so clearly demonstrated in his classic Farmer 's Glory in the 1930s , these indulgences have invariably been followed , quite suddenly , by much longer periods of agricultural depression when the land has had to be grassed down to rebuild fertility . |
| 13 | The data does not include common land and it has had to be standardised to overcome changes in category definitions over the years . |
| 14 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
| 15 | However , a realisation of the required changes is perhaps the biggest hurdle to overcome particularly when faced with the considerable barrage of recent legislation and the tight time-scale in which it has had to be implemented . |
| 16 | No analyst would make such a claim today , and the ‘ nationalization ’ thesis has had to be revised in the light of increased local variations in voting behaviour . |
| 17 | THE CONTROVERSY in Norway over a bounty of £2000 , placed on the head of one of the country 's last wolves , has had to be settled at cabinet level . |
| 18 | For others spiritual direction has had to be hard won , a sifting of alternatives , a struggle with doubts and disappointments . |
| 19 | The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on . |
| 20 | The financial burden has been heavy and much energy and organisation has had to be diverted from politically motivated activities to illegal or legal fund raising . |
| 21 | The advent of the fixed penalty system for all drivers , whether commercial or not , on 1 October 1986 is yet another example of the changing nature of law for the haulier which has had to be notified to employee drivers . |
| 22 | Until now the work has had to be done manually using a form of surgical cement . |
| 23 | Until now , he has had to be with his father 100 per cent of the time . |
| 24 | I 've never charged a fee for anything I 've done and so all my work has had to be financed out of my own pocket . |
| 25 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 26 | This has had to be postponed . |
| 27 | Its demarcation from those other professional analysts who cater to the mass market , has had to be made as severe as possible . |
| 28 | Now another internal inquiry has had to be launched , this time to find out how news of BA 's rights issue was leaked . |
| 29 | Post-school education for young people with disabilities and learning difficulties has had to be fought for . |
| 30 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |