Example sentences of "has [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This has proven to be a strong deterrent against theft . |
| 4 | This has proven to be the case in all of the uses of to examined to date . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | More recently , and perhaps begging the question of its mental significance , it has come to be known as the Readiness Potential ( RP ) . |
| 10 | Despite the ‘ wisteria ’ , cricket has come to be quietly alive to capitalism . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 13 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 16 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , much of the drab utilitarianism of urban existence has come to be associated with the design philosophy of functionalism . |
| 18 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Now it seems that some things work , especially those like the AEC that are associated with what has come to be described as the problem-focused/task-centred approach ( Roberts , 1990 ) . |
| 20 | I would not , therefore , expect theism to have to rest its case on the sort of argument for God 's existence that Anselm advanced in the eleventh century and which has come to be known as the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ . |
| 21 | wheat has come to be an important imported product which reflects the increasing consumption of bread as a staple , rather than maize-based food products such as tortillas . |
| 22 | This work has come to be called the ‘ little g minor ’ , linking it in power and mood to the Symphony in the same key , K.550 of 1788 . |
| 23 | Already in 1913 , as the Independent observed , ‘ gray hair has come to be recognized as the unforgivable witness of industrial imbecility . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps the concept has come to be more closely associated with the Conservatives than the other major parties . |
| 25 | It is also not inappropriate that the word has come to be applied to a person 's position in society , with the clear implication that ‘ getting above your station ’ is somehow wrong and dangerous . |
| 26 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 27 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 28 | ‘ Creative ’ writing has acquired a bad name ; it has been contrasted with proper grammatical writing , and has come to be numbered among the suspect activities of the Loony Left , or at least with the ‘ soft ’ brigade . |
| 29 | At some stage in a competition , competitors have to be ranked in order , and this has come to be the role of public examinations . |
| 30 | 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 . |