Example sentences of "have [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | This contrasts strongly with practice recommended in much of US literature , particularly that on what has come to be called ‘ competitive intelligence ’ , of a central coordinated and proactive gathering of both formal and informal environmental information and its dissemination throughout the firm . |
4 | We have been particularly concerned in this report with perhaps the main exemplar of such a development : what has come to be called ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
5 | The ‘ Inner Game ’ as this type of work has come to be called , is established in tennis and applied to a wide variety of professional and amateur sports by people wishing to improve their game . |
6 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
7 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
8 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
9 | Worst of all for Scottish pride , what has come to be called the Stone of Scone is no longer in its honoured place . |
10 | But during their stay , at Moses ' instruction , they provided materials for the construction of the very complex tent which has come to be called the tabernacle . |
11 | So far as I am aware , this was the first occasion on which it was made clear that the period which elapses before a prisoner serving a life sentence is released is determined by consideration of two factors , namely : ( i ) the period necessary to satisfy retribution and deterrence , which has come to be called ‘ the tariff ; ’ and ( ii ) a possible further period if it is thought by the Parole Board and/or the Secretary of State that the prisoner would pose an unacceptable risk of danger to the public were he to be released at the end of his tariff period . |
12 | Fragrant herbs play a great part in what has come to be called aromatherapy , in which essential fragrant oils from herbs are rubbed on to the skin . |
13 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
14 | One other sideways bound was the creation of what has come to be called the police procedural . |
15 | The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box . |
16 | In recent years a number of attempts to integrate and coordinate these functions has come to be called Physical Distribution Management . |
17 | So what has come to be called ‘ cognitive science ’ ( the science of knowledge ) is intertwined with cognitive engineering . |
18 | Discourse analysts have for over a decade been probing the properties of what has come to be called the conversational ‘ turn ’ . |
19 | To differentiate it from the Carolingian revisions the Merovingian text has come to be called the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
20 | The Exchange Telegraph case is perhaps an early example of what , following the dicta of Roxburgh J in Terrapin Ltd v Builders ' Supply Co ( Hayes ) Ltd [ 1960 ] RPC 128 , has come to be called the " springboard " doctrine . |
21 | Already in 1913 , as the Independent observed , ‘ gray hair has come to be recognized as the unforgivable witness of industrial imbecility . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The ideal environment has come to be seen as one which offers continual opportunities to maximise learning , and succeeds in engaging the attention and motivation of the individual for as near to 100 per cent of his/her time as possible . |
24 | The fundamental question , as posed by Foucault , is how is it that in our society sex is seen not just as a means of biological reproduction nor a source of harmless pleasure , but , on the contrary , has come to be seen as the central part of our being , the privileged site in which the truth of ourselves is to be found ? |
25 | At the same time , it has come to be seen — particularly by its own practitioners — as a serious subject . |
26 | The adversary system , based on a party duopoly of seats in the House of Commons and party monopoly ( or an elective dictatorship ) of the government , has come to be seen as our national style of politics . |
27 | Especially in the wake of the 1981 Brixton disorders , street life has come to be seen as problematic in character , as associated with youth — and especially with black or West Indian youth , and as being a cause or potential cause of riotous behaviour in the streets . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | If , since union , sovereignty has been successfully asserted in practice by the United Kingdom Parliament , and if that assertion has come to be accepted as the basis of the existing constitutional edifice , that is what must , at all events pending the next shift , govern . |
30 | Since this decision relates , in English , to what has come to be accepted as a key element in children 's potential to achieve at school , that is their linguistic competence , the English teacher has a heavier responsibility when he [ or she ] attempts to resolve it than staff concerned with other parts of the curriculum . |