Example sentences of "have [verb] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only substantial markets have proven to be in dedicated applications . |
| 2 | Until now , the Greeks have claimed to be among the most radical of Europeans , ready to move swiftly to a federal European union with a single foreign policy and a single army . |
| 3 | Jesus says to you today , Rejoice … for I have come to be with you , now and for ever . |
| 4 | Jesus says to you today , Rejoice … for I have come to be with you , now and for ever . |
| 5 | It is only in recent years that our indigenous antiquities have come to be worth enough on the market for systematic looting to be profitable in a financial sense . |
| 6 | Well I do n't know if there are any women , I could n't tell you whether any girls have applied to be like trainee tenters , that 's people that sort |
| 7 | Natural hazard research necessarily focuses upon the interrelation of geophysical events and human activity and as such is an important feature of recent research and one that some such as Parker and Harding ( 1979 ) have proclaimed to be of central and traditional concern to geographers and their view is included in Table 6.2 . |
| 8 | So far , therefore , the findings have tended to be of more obvious value to the accountant than to those responsible for planning advertising . |
| 9 | A spokesman said the complaints made so far have tended to be of a civil nature , but added : If we receive a complaint which can be substantiated then we will investigate it . |
| 10 | Trade unions have been far more suspicious of serious historical enquiry than their business counterparts , and investigations into particular disputes have tended to be within pre-determined sets of assumptions about the relationship between so-called labour and capital [ Beynon , 1984 ] . |
| 11 | Such increases as have occurred in on-licence sales have tended to be in products such as lager , cider , wines and spirits , many of which we purchase from outside suppliers in the form of proprietary brands . |
| 12 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 13 | You have promised to be with your Church until the end of time . |
| 14 | You are aware Miss that any persons working in that department have got to be of age ? |
| 15 | You are aware Miss that any persons working in that department have got to be of age ? |
| 16 | Lot of good stuff about , plus some of those tapestries have got to be worth a fortune . ’ |
| 17 | Any ambitions we have have got to be within the terms of those realities . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ but after my talks with Wilkinson there was not much doubt — i have to play to be in line for a world-cup squad place . |
| 19 | It 's to be formed , so far Mrs E Mrs have volunteered to be on it . |
| 20 | Pollen analysis from samples taken on the spot have proved to be of prehistoric vegetation , while carbon dating of fragments of burnt wood have suggested a date of roughly 16,500 BC . |
| 21 | Indeed , the techniques that have proved to be of greatest use are empirical or almost ’ trial and error ’ in their approach . |
| 22 | Pieces which have proved to be of enduring worth have passed from special conference song books into collections with a wider circulation . |
| 23 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
| 24 | To prevent failures of this order , even if success was not absolutely assured , might , other things being equal , have seemed to be within the scope of US policy at the time . |
| 25 | All the top car firms have pledged to be at the sixth Mobility Roadshow and Public Transport minister Roger Freeman says : ‘ I am impressed at the range of high quality vehicles and equipment now available to meet the mobility needs of disabled people . ’ |
| 26 | At some later date he abandoned all his offices and journeyed to the Hijaz ( which journey both Mecdi and el-Kefevi have taken to be for the purpose of going on the pilgrimage ) ; alter his return he did not again hold any office . |
| 27 | Since such a cultural repertoire is held only in the memory it is subject to constant change according to the new interests of the moment ‘ and whatever parts of it have ceased to be of contemporary relevance are likely to be eliminated by the process of forgetting ’ ( ibid. p. 30 ) . |
| 28 | Amendments made : No. 82 , in page 59 , line 34 , at end insert — ( ) In section 65B ( provision for recorded children who have ceased to be of school age ) after subsection ( 6 ) there shall be inserted the following subsection — ( 6A ) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph ( c ) of subsection ( 6 ) above , the reference in that paragraph to any other body shall include a reference to the board of management of a college of further education ( within the meaning of Part I of the Further and Higher Education ( Scotland ) Act 1992 ) making provision from which , in the opinion of the authority , the child might benefit . |
| 29 | I said , so how many of those would grade three , level three child have to get to be at a level three ? |
| 30 | If the relationship had been especially close and happy , and if parents have continued to be of prime importance in a daughter 's life , then the shock will be all the greater . |