Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though in a different way , what we have seen to be true of Gide was also true of Wilde : ‘ running foul of the law in his sexual life was a stimulus to thought on every subject … . |
| 2 | Or possibly , like sweet , besotted Linda in Nancy Mitford 's The Pursuit of Love , you have decided to be philosophical about your beloved 's insistence that ‘ these little sins of the body are quite unimportant . ’ |
| 3 | Furthermore the structures of the lexical entries have tended to be proprietary to the system making it impossible to exchange lexicons between systems . |
| 4 | Most recent linguistic explanations have tended to be internal to linguistic theory : that is to say , some linguistic feature is explained by reference to other linguistic features , or to aspects of the theory itself . |
| 5 | With the advent of computerised axial tomography ( CAT scan ) this is likely to be less of a problem in the future , but in the past researchers have had to be content with less sophisticated methods . |
| 6 | The Australians have had to be content with the second favourites slot in front of their home crowd . |
| 7 | We found that the length of time transported chickens spent in this catatonic state matched that which researchers elsewhere have shown to be typical of the very highest levels of fear . |
| 8 | People have got to be involved in solving themselves the problems themselves . |
| 9 | ‘ On the one hand it has dragged the name of this club through the mud and on the other , as a manager , I have got to be worried by the implications . ’ |
| 10 | and people have got to be aware of their prejudices |
| 11 | have got to be ready for the season starting ? |
| 12 | Some of the subjects like science and history have attempted to be positive in the curriculum content so that the children attain the targets for the subjects , but also become better educated in terms of quality issues . |
| 13 | A number of different drugs have been claimed to prevent sickling in vivo , but none have proved to be effective without unacceptably severe side-effects . |
| 14 | They have proved to be adaptable to a wide variety of climates and environments , able to tolerate heat and cold and with a high resistance to disease . |
| 15 | Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months . |
| 16 | This can only be achieved by working prospectively on the child 's future environment and by deciding which new experiences may be introduced to compensate for those which , in the past , have proved to be inadequate for language development . |
| 17 | The results of putting these services out to competitive tender have proved to be controversial with proponents claiming significant improvements in efficiency and critics claiming a substantial worsening in service quality . |
| 18 | In many areas where they have been established , staying on rates have risen and they have proved to be popular with students and staff alike for a variety of reasons . |
| 19 | Women have proved to be astute in business . |
| 20 | John Price ( 1968 ) has made two suggestions : perhaps temporary moods of pessimistic caution have proved to be advantageous in avoiding predators , or perhaps depressive behaviour has evolved as part of the complex behaviour which maintains the stability of man 's community . |
| 21 | Even the supposedly rigid ‘ external financing limits ’ imposed by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain have proved to be flexible in practice ( Heald and Steel 1981 ) , with targets being adjusted when it became apparent that they would not be met . |
| 22 | Implicit links have proved to be difficult for the machine to locate automatically but can be entered manually by the user in most hyper-text systems and in small-scale applications can provide very rich structures . |
| 23 | If we want to know in precisely what circumstances such a gene would increase in frequency , we have to carry out calculations which have proved to be full of pitfalls for the unwary . |
| 24 | Walking , for example , is an activity which as we go about in everyday life we have ceased to be aware of ; but when we dance the automatically performed gestures of walking are perceived anew . |
| 25 | This is all a far cry from the cosy coffee morning , which is itself shorthand for a vast network of peer support groups in which women , who have ceased to be competitive for the first time in their lives , can find reassurance during a period of mindbending uncertainty . |
| 26 | This might be so after today 's rain , for instance , when the facts about the rain have ceased to be evidence-transcendent to all . |
| 27 | Fellows and Junior research fellows have continued to be active in their publications ( listed elsewhere in the report ) and in giving learned papers in all corners of the globe . |
| 28 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |
| 29 | In this way general practitioners have begun to be involved in making decisions about effecting change in the balance of services between primary and secondary care and in establishing priorities for the types of services they wish to see delivered in the future . |
| 30 | Many other insects have a shift in colour vision similar to the bee 's , and flowers have evolved to be attractive to their eyes . |