Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , sexual history records remarkable cases of feminine pubic hair that has grown to be longer than the hair on the owners ' heads . |
| 2 | Those two finals in 1986 and 1987 were the climax of his 24-year career at the top of the game that has grown to be a part of the national heritage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although such censorship is not the most common type of censorship in libraries , it is the one in recent years that has threatened to be the most damaging . |
| 5 | Her need of the steadying , mature containment of the Ryans is as clear as ice water , for there is much in her professional and personal past that has had to be relinquished . |
| 6 | There is no area , there is no tiny minute detail of the law that has failed to be met with . |
| 7 | But to me that has got to be the same thing . |
| 8 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 9 | In the British context of the 1980s the political project that has come to be identified as ‘ Thatcherism ’ has commonly been seen as an attempt to legitimate both the reintegration of a restructured British economy into the global economy and the revision of the relationship between the state and civil society that the preferred version of restructuring required . |
| 10 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
| 11 | The method used by Hunter , often referred to as the reputational method , is also one that has come to be associated typically with elitist studies . |
| 12 | Wilkinson said : ‘ If proof were ever needed that anything is possible in this game , then that 's got to be it . |
| 13 | Does it feel like you created something that 's got to be broken down now ? |
| 14 | I think about the carpet that 's got to be laid , and I must clean those windows tomorrow … |
| 15 | Right that 's got to be And that 's X men times fo times two hours equals forty eight man hours . |
| 16 | It 's just a little bit of business that 's got to be done . ’ |
| 17 | It 's ridiculous , when you take into account all the parking that 's got to be provided on it . |
| 18 | they may be cheaper , I do n't know , but but that was one of the issues that 's got to be taken into , into |
| 19 | You know , I 'm easy going and I can cope with that , and get on and do the job with whatever it is that 's got to be done . |
| 20 | Well it 's , it 's a job that 's got to be done and you can do it on a miserable day . |
| 21 | Well it 's only front that 's got to be tracked . |
| 22 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 23 | There 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through , an awful lot of people to see , an awful lot of red tape really to get through , first , I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards . |
| 24 | whether it 's a large economic growth in Europe in places like Milan , Innsbruck er Barcelona , all have these systems where an extra terminal capacity is only part of the jigsaw that 's had to be met . |
| 25 | He was involved in the charities and voluntary organisations PR seminar , and has volunteered to be public relations and marketing director for Junior Chamber Aberdeen next year . |
| 26 | AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident was founded as a mutual life society in 1849 and has grown to be the largest life office in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 27 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 28 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |