Example sentences of "have [verb] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 2 | The fact is that any so called sport which involves the exhaustion , distress and eventual death of an animal has got to be obscene in the eyes of any human being . |
| 3 | With this shock news as well there 's going to be a lot more redundancies which has got to be bad for Plymouth and the economy of Plymouth as well . |
| 4 | Quinn has promised to be selfish in his quest for goals . |
| 5 | LENNIE Lawrence has promised to be ruthless in his Middlesbrough team selection in a bid to live with the best in the Premier League next season . |
| 6 | Existing published research on French primary education has tended to be quantitative in style with a strong statistical emphasis . |
| 7 | Where interest has been shown it has tended to be critical of the idea of connecting creativity to madness . |
| 8 | The McGhee decision has proved to be controversial as the plaintiff never established that the defendant was a cause of his damage . |
| 9 | Moreover , as Maynard has demonstrated ( Maynard , 1984 ) , it has proved to be effective in enabling health authorities to live within their means . |
| 10 | This power also has proved to be potent on a truly universal level , with France in particular warming to the man 's work and awarding him its prestigious Chevalier of Arts and Letters , an honour doubtless of special significance to a writer who lists Flaubert and Stendhal as primary influences . |
| 11 | Whereas a strategy of incorporation can be relatively successful when applied by a regime of right-wing orientation which is prepared to support it with repression , it has proved to be ineffective for leftist groups which claim to be advancing the interests of the working class . |
| 12 | This violates such deep-seated feelings of justice that it has proved to be unacceptable under any criminal law jurisdiction . |
| 13 | Hugh Price Hughes chastised the 1896 Free Church Council meetings for its vociferousness and insisted that all should ‘ submit to those restraints and regulations which the experience of the greatest representative assemblies of the world has proved to be necessary to an intelligent participation in the business as it proceeds ’ . |
| 14 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 15 | Although the report did not allude to the possibility of fraud , it has proved to be prophetic in a number of respects . |
| 16 | The product has proved to be stable over the anticipated lifespan of the building and has advantages over alternative methods of roof insulation , namely , energy efficiency , ease of installation and speed of erection . |
| 17 | It is a theory whose plausibility and aesthetic attractiveness in England was considerable at a time ( the later 1970s ) when the English choral tradition was flourishing and when many sensed the need for a change of direction after the loss of David Munrow ; by a kind of happy accident it has proved to be consistent with a much wider range of evidence than was initially suspected . |
| 18 | Whereas Haslam has found that a detached outside perspective has proved to be valuable in several of the companies he has served as a board member , his early intimate knowledge of the coal industry was equally beneficial when he was asked to become chairman of British Coal , bringing his career full circle . |
| 19 | That clearly has proved to be attractive from other routes outside this immediate area with the opening of the southern bypass . |
| 20 | The economist 's model has proved to be unstable in the face of a policy regime change and has provided unreliable advice . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the same has proved to be true of experiments using Lawrence 's original design . |
| 22 | This assumption , however , has proved to be unwarranted in a number of respects . |
| 23 | Are we content with the quality of college provision , which in some instances has appeared to be close to a ‘ care and containment ’ policy , or are we going to ensure that students with disabilities receive the maximum opportunity to realise their potential ? |
| 24 | China has learned to be sceptical on that score , but on March 20th Mr Li was talking to the theoretically converted — the 2,700 delegates to the annual National People 's Congress in Beijing . |
| 25 | The underlying philosophy has tried to be selective in aiming at farmers with intermediate and non-viable enterprises . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher has always realized that her power base lay with back-benchers and has tried to be accessible to them . |
| 27 | Sanyo has tried to be active in the personal computer market as a member of the Japanese-language AT-compatible AX PC group , but has an almost negligible share within Japan , with most sales coming in OEM from Europe and the US . |
| 28 | The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals . |
| 29 | The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals . |
| 30 | The Association has continued to be active since 1946 , monitoring the progress of new towns and seeking to further the principles and practice of good planning . |