Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boris lost the vote despite the support of the High Priest of Ulric , but has since proved to be the most loyal and energetic of Karl Franz 's Counts . |
| 2 | This Conference was staged at what has since proved to be an important turning point in the provision of training facilities for colleagues involved in the promotion of bilingualism and community languages . |
| 3 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 4 | A woman police constable who reported him has since had to be transferred ‘ after being cold-shouldered ’ . |
| 5 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 6 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 7 | Yet however radical some of Pombal 's attitudes , he has little claim to be considered an ‘ enlightened ’ minister . |
| 8 | The main plank of Leninism is an organisational structure which will allow the best arguments in society to be aired and the argument that has most support to be taken as policy . |
| 9 | ‘ The forest plantation is quite young and the ditch was ploughed in 1987 , so the body has obviously come to be there after that . ’ |
| 10 | Something has obviously got to be done to make sure that these simple shelters , which are there to offer overnight shelter for anyone in need of it , are not used for holiday centres and the like . |
| 11 | I I think the aspiration has obviously got to be that the E C can grow . |
| 12 | Supporting this concept is the fact that serum pepsinogen I activity has consequentially found to be raised in both adults and children with H pylori associated antral gastritis and these concentrations return to normal in most patients after successful therapy . |
| 13 | The front runner has long seemed to be head injury , in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state . |
| 14 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 15 | On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked . |
| 16 | Formerly this time was known as " Supply Days " and was used to discuss the grant of supply to the Crown but it has long ceased to be confined to discussion of government spending and is instead used to criticise all aspects of government policy . |
| 17 | And the child storms off in fury because you do n't understand , and because this activity you billed as ‘ fun ’ has suddenly ceased to be any fun at all . |
| 18 | Localism has thus continued to be a reality in Nigeria and Zambia and has conflicted with attempts to build a national identity and a national politics . |
| 19 | This takes us into an area of discussion — what has broadly come to be known as ‘ the environment ’ — which will be dealt with in the following chapter . |
| 20 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 21 | The Woonerf , though without doubt a valuable contribution to safe living areas , has not proved to be a universal solution . |
| 22 | At one time it was thought that high-fibre diets containing bran would be successful , but this has not proved to be the case . |
| 23 | With very few exceptions , however , this has not proved to be the case , largely because Latin American states have retained a high degree of integration with , and dependence on , the developed capitalist economies . |
| 24 | The index has not proved to be a reliable feature of either constipation or diarrhoea . |
| 25 | The January 1989 white and fawn dog finished second in a 631 metres open at Sunderland , and switching to Middlesbrough 's inside hare has not proved to be any problem . |
| 26 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 27 | Since July 1984 , death from alcoholism has not had to be reported to the coroner . |
| 28 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 29 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 30 | Porterfield has already gone on record by saying the former England coach has easily proved to be his best signing . |