Example sentences of "have [verb] to be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Those two finals in 1986 and 1987 were the climax of his 24-year career at the top of the game that has grown to be a part of the national heritage . |
| 3 | And in order to put a stop to it , there has got to be a resurgence of a belief in values , whatever those values may be . |
| 4 | There has got to be a willingness on the part of all the groups on this council and the officers of the various connected departments of this council to make sure that those teams are given the utmost support in delivering the youth and community service that the Highfields area needs and deserves . |
| 5 | ‘ This has got to be a Budget for jobs . |
| 6 | This has got to be a record for our group all on one day ! |
| 7 | I tend to be rather disorganised when packing gear , so anything that helps me keep things in the right place has got to be a bonus . |
| 8 | So there has got to be a source of equity or semi-equity instruments available . |
| 9 | Not only have we got young people from all the political parties involved , but we 've also got Sir Geoffrey Howe , John Smith , David Owen , Lord Jenkins , in other words one senior representative from each of the major political parties has agreed to be a patron er so that shows that it is a cross-party initiative . |
| 10 | Once a celebrity has agreed to be a guest , the researcher assigned to him or her will go along for an exploratory conversation . |
| 11 | Even if he has refused to be a market counterparty in relation to some investments , he can still be a market counterparty in relation to other qualifying investments ; and ( 3 ) The firm has warned him in its notice that he will not have the benefit of protections afforded to customers . |
| 12 | The originality of the format , with actors acting , a real GP facing a real problem , and a studio panel assessing his response , has proved to be a winner . |
| 13 | The flat fee , which has remained the same since the company was set up over three years ago , has proved to be a winner with both buyers and sellers . |
| 14 | ‘ Virtually every anti-anxiety drug and sleeping pill ever prescribed has proved to be a drug of dependence . ’ |
| 15 | This guitar has proved to be a favourite of everyone here . |
| 16 | We like walking so we bought a second-hand backpack for him which has proved to be a lot more useful — it 's much easier to carry him in it . |
| 17 | Its ability to be teamed up with Word for Windows to scan text straight into the latter is also very useful , and has proved to be a time saver ( now you know why we like typed letters for the letters page ! ) . |
| 18 | In one area , Mrs Thatcher has proved to be a Keynesian on a scale unmatched by her predecessors in the recent past . |
| 19 | The warm weather which helped Etam in the summer has proved to be a disadvantage in the run-up to autumn trading and the chairman , Alan Howard , says the group has been trading slightly below budgeted levels . |
| 20 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |
| 21 | ( 9 ) A member of a licensing board who has ceased to be a member of the authority by whom he was appointed by reason of an ordinary election to the council of that authority shall continue to be a member of the board until the first meeting of the council after the election . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( d ) As she discussed with her father when they were recently reconciled , she has ceased to be a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 24 | ( Misprision of felony has ceased to be a crime since the Criminal Law Act 1967 . ) |
| 25 | It does no such thing ; rather it defines the circumstances and conditions in which a marriage has ceased to be a source of happiness and strength to those involved and may be brought to an end … |
| 26 | Many a manager has ceased to be a leader and has been sucked into the bureaucracy of his organization , effectively ( in many cases ineffectively ) becoming just an administrator of the cumbersome systems within it . |
| 27 | But the certificate is not a statement that the named shareholder has continued to be a shareholder since that date . |
| 28 | But er , you 'd got to be a man and a half to be able just to smoke to smoke the local stuff . . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought he 'd reformed to be a daddy . |
| 30 | I 'd wanted to be a nurse or a policewoman , but I had to leave school right away and help support my family . |