Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is the nearest I have come to being smacked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Strangely , lesbians have come to be categorised as a ‘ low risk group ’ for HIV infection . |
| 5 | Hence the words man , mankind , humanity have come to be treated as interchangeable synonyms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These have come to be called the ‘ book-hand ’ and the related groups of ‘ charter ’ , ‘ chancery ’ and ‘ court ’ hands . |
| 8 | The non-metropolitan counties , or ‘ shire ’ counties as they have come to be called , are substantial local authorities in terms of both area and population ( see Map 3.1 and Table 3.2 ) . |
| 9 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 10 | By now most people do know about the Book People , the Bread and Cheese People , the Plant , Stamp and Baking People , and the Carrying People even , but not everyone knows the full history of the Cave People as they have come to be called . |
| 11 | A ready way to identify substances which in the course of many thousands of years have come to be accepted as precious is to scan the windows of jewellers ' shops in Bond Street or the Burlington Arcade and their counterparts in the wealthiest cities of the western world . |
| 12 | In this article I shall reveal how certain 20th-century re-orchestrations and other distortions have come to be played on 18th-century instruments . |
| 13 | The associations between this allegedly purposeless irresponsibility and a galloping crime rate have come to be employed regularly in postwar discourses on the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 14 | But since the late 1970s these same events have come to be viewed somewhat differently [ Morris , 1979 ; Wright , 1979 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The nouveau roman has played a central role in the debates surrounding postmodernism : the metafictional techniques and strategies associated with the writers commonly identified with this movement have come to be regarded as , in many ways , synonymous with what constitutes postmodernist fiction . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Agrarian policies have come to be focused less on land tenure arrangements and more on the growth and distribution of food . |
| 21 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 22 | Over time , fewer materials have come to be reused or recycled . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Such express declarations have come to be known as Living Wills , and have received much attention in the United States and elsewhere . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It combines , therefore , what have come to be known as structure and conjoncture , the permanent and the ephemeral , the slow moving and the fast . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance . |
| 30 | What has become a matter of concern is that as society becomes more complex , and as the common coin of politics moves away from socialism — and indeed social democracy — it becomes important to preserve and develop those rights which have come to be considered fundamental . |