Example sentences of "have [verb] to be [adv] " 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 | Participant observation , for example , although it developed more or less outside of any strong theoretical tradition but simply as a way of getting research of a particularly descriptive kind done , in sociology has come to be closely associated with the symbolic interactionist tradition . |
| 5 | It is an ancient body of law , largely customary in its origins , which , since the mid-nineteenth century , has come to be largely but not completely codified in the form of binding multilateral international conventions ( Schindler and Toman , 1981 ; Roberts and Guelff , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | To live by ungrounded values , which even if organized as rationally as a science have only an inward coherence without external support , has come to be widely accepted as the quintessentially modern condition . |
| 7 | The London Interbank Offered Rate ( LIBOR ) has come to be widely used as a benchmark rate , deposit and loan rates being set on margins related to LIBOR . |
| 8 | He has come to be quite a feature in the pub . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps the concept has come to be more closely associated with the Conservatives than the other major parties . |
| 10 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 11 | Despite the ‘ wisteria ’ , cricket has come to be quietly alive to capitalism . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet she has grown to be very much a part of Canadian society . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For others spiritual direction has had to be hard won , a sifting of alternatives , a struggle with doubts and disappointments . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a result of the EEC directive requiring equal treatment for men and women in member countries ' social security schemes , the British system has had to be further modified . |
| 20 | This is another way in which Highlander has had to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to changing needs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's marvellous that the Brighton Corporation came in , but nevertheless the building to perform a function which is going to be useful for the community as a whole has got to be properly funded . |
| 23 | Your organization has got to be just right you know . |
| 24 | The brute has got to be right up to you before you can reach its nose . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | This government has got to be really be joking with its proposals for example the West Coast Line from north to south is estimated to require in the region of eight hundred million to cover track repairs and modernization as well as outdated rolling stock and signal replacements . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet the under-fives area has tended to be somewhat ignored when anti-racist , anti.sexist policies are developed . |