Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 2 | There 's a huge amount of detail and the technique has got to be perfect otherwise the painting should be an absolute mess . |
| 3 | In recent years , the abuse of children by those charged with their care and protection has come to be seen as one of the major social problems of modern societies . |
| 4 | Canton , Massachusetts-based Perception Technology Corp has agreed to be acquired by Brite Voice Systems Inc of Wichita , Kansas for about 3.35m new Brite Voice shares giving an indicated value of about $15.9m ; the combined companies would have had revenues in excess of $35m on a pro forma basis for fiscal 1992 . |
| 5 | Even in the Coordinating Team , the development of such skills has tended to be accepted as self-evidently a good thing rather than debated or interpreted in a systematic way . |
| 6 | To differentiate it from the Carolingian revisions the Merovingian text has come to be called the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
| 7 | Lenin 's vision of socialism and communism has failed to be realized in the Soviet Union in two fundamental ways . |
| 8 | Already in 1913 , as the Independent observed , ‘ gray hair has come to be recognized as the unforgivable witness of industrial imbecility . ’ |
| 9 | Remember … whichever style you go for , your hair has got to be in beautiful condition . |
| 10 | Unofficial EC estimates suggest that provision has had to be made for about £2 billion in the £28 billion borrowing requirement for 1992–93 as a result of the policy shift . |
| 11 | For others spiritual direction has had to be hard won , a sifting of alternatives , a struggle with doubts and disappointments . |
| 12 | The McGhee decision has proved to be controversial as the plaintiff never established that the defendant was a cause of his damage . |
| 13 | Crude advertising discrimination has tended to be directed at the socialist rather than social-democratic press , thus exempting the mass-circulation , pro-Labour papers that have flourished ; … small circulation publications further to the left which have tended to be poor advertising media , judged by the commercial criterion employed by advertising agencies , have probably also suffered as a consequence of overt political discrimination . |
| 14 | In good British fashion , however , that change has tended to be piecemeal rather than comprehensive . |
| 15 | Moreover each kind has continued to be important ; it is not a simple question of successive stages . |
| 16 | This guitar has proved to be a favourite of everyone here . |
| 17 | The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right . |
| 18 | The functional results of patients who have lost up to 50 cm of small bowel raises the question as to whether repeated pouch construction is justified in those patients whose pouch has had to be removed because of ischaemia . |
| 19 | Anton Rogan ( central defender/full back ) : Brought a few smiles when he revealed his ‘ grandad ’ vest at Stamford Bridge , but his switch to the heart of defence has proved to be an inspirational decision by Malcolm Crosby . |
| 20 | Although cholesterol has come to be regarded as some sort of evil , a certain amount is actually essential for some aspects of physical health such as repairing lining membranes and the manufacture of sex hormones . |
| 21 | Another sign of attachment is the revival of the art of cameo-cutting , beginning with the commissions bestowed by popes , prelates and connoisseurs at the time of the Renaissance , persisting through the period of bourgeois dominance and continuing into the present age of enfranchisement even to the point at which resort has had to be made to substitute materials like shell or paste to satisfy a greatly enlarged market . |
| 22 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 23 | X times two hours has got to be equal |
| 24 | Mr Hun Sen has pledged to be ‘ a good sport ’ , no matter what the results of the election . |
| 25 | When matters of race are located and called attention to in American literature , critical response has tended to be on the order of a humanistic nostrum — or a dismissal mandated by the label ‘ political ’ . |
| 26 | The plan to mark the silver jubilee by a co-ordinated programme of highlights of the normal year 's activities has proved to be very successful . |
| 27 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 28 | The brute has got to be right up to you before you can reach its nose . ’ |
| 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 content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals . |