Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |
| 2 | The real situation RE has to contend with is now very different from how many , perhaps most , people have generally thought it to be . |
| 3 | Its underwater design is a refinement of the ‘ pure centerboard ’ concept that has proven to be so fast and seaworthy on the race course in Ted Hood 's series of Robins . |
| 4 | Paul , who commutes daily — a weekly total of 630 miles — from his home town of Dundee has proven to be an excellent draughtsman both manually and on CAD , gaining expertise on CADvance , AUTOCAD and Microstation Intergraph systems which are supported throughout FWWG . |
| 5 | This has proven to be a strong deterrent against theft . |
| 6 | This has proven to be the case in all of the uses of to examined to date . |
| 7 | Guillaume 's notion of a representation of person as a support within the infinitive has proven to be extremely fruitful for explaining the uses of this form discussed above . |
| 8 | The problem with New Right Conservatism is that it has to claim to be reducing the influence of the State in the field of welfare , health , income support and education , but has to maintain the strong State in the arena of law and order . |
| 9 | All he has to cope with is his own shame . |
| 10 | Visual communication has been categorised in various ways but none of them has succeeded in being comprehensive . |
| 11 | A Church warden in a Worcestershire village has resigned after being criticised for keeping his churchyard ’ too tidy . ’ |
| 12 | This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew . |
| 13 | The rambling 58-minute statement from Koresh , who has claimed to be the Lamb of the book of Revelation , broadcast on radio stations at the request of the FBI . |
| 14 | Once the kidnap has taken place , the woman is generally compelled to display ‘ her baby ’ , particularly if she has claimed to be pregnant , and this impulse presents the best opportunity for the child 's recovery . |
| 15 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 16 | Perhaps no one would deny this ; but as each generation of students arrives more defiantly or hopelessly monoglot , as a whole new discipline ( called ‘ Comparative Literature ’ ) has come into being to cater for those exceptional persons who can read more languages than one , the need for a classroom manual to redress this state of affairs becomes ever more urgent . |
| 17 | Perhaps most significantly of all , the Irish Free State , now the Republic of Ireland , has come into being as an independent sovereign state distinct from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | The rejection of both the trust analogy and the doctrine of agency leaves unexplained the situation where a new State has come into being in accordance with a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 19 | Nizan sided unequivocally with Stalin , noting : " In the USSR only the myths of freedom are dying out , but true freedom has come into being . " |
| 20 | Up to now , most borders have been French imports , but this year a company has come into being which designs and manufactures borders in this country . |
| 21 | Since the silent imposition of cultural boycott , a visual illiteracy has come into being . |
| 22 | These various new proposals have now been put into effect and a Committee for Institutions has come into being . |
| 23 | More recently , and perhaps begging the question of its mental significance , it has come to be known as the Readiness Potential ( RP ) . |
| 24 | Despite the ‘ wisteria ’ , cricket has come to be quietly alive to capitalism . |
| 25 | Brailsford quite categoricaliy rejects the idea that group aggression was part of the spectacle in the way it has come to be since the 1960s . |
| 26 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 27 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 28 | Yet for women religious , celibacy has come to be a statement in direct opposition to western cultural norms of women having to be available to men and usually defined by their relationships to them . |
| 29 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 30 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |