Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters .
2 It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East .
3 He immediately announced a wide-ranging programme of social and political reforms , which appears to have aroused the wrath of the tribes .
4 Shamir would have preferred to have formed a broad coalition government with Labour , but this became impossible for him in view of statements made by Labour Ministers suggesting that they supported contacts with the PLO , and in view of pressure from hardline Likud members such as Ariel Sharon to form a right-wing government .
5 A group of People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) officers was reported to have formed a secret group backing the reinstatement of the former party chief , Zhao Ziyang .
6 In June rebels claimed to have formed a " provisional government " and , for the first time , they used rockets during one of their attacks [ see p. 37530 ] .
7 Many of the movements in the 1960s were reluctant to take this step , largely because of their hostility to the bureaucratic character of traditional parties , and they seem to have formed no clear idea of how the desired transformation of the economy , the political system and cultural patterns ( including education ) could actually be carried out in an effective way .
8 Thus the family , neighbourhood , or work-place groups of older and younger men and a sprinkling of women , which seem to have formed the basic unit of attendance between the wars and before , broke up .
9 The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance .
10 In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career .
11 By contrast , certain defences are provided for the person who is not proved to have formed the intent , but whose language or conduct is likely to give rise to racial hatred .
12 Such classes appear to have formed the bulk of the programme and little was offered which could be seen as particularly relevant to community action or the problems of social change .
13 In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested .
14 Counsel for the SFO announced on Feb. 7 , 1992 , that charges against Seelig and David Mayhew ( a stockbroker ) which were to have formed the basis of a third trial had now been withdrawn .
15 Four Eritrean groupings opposed to the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) transitional government in Asmara were reported on Sept. 28 to have formed the Eritrean National Pact Alliance ( ENPA ) , accusing the Front of seeking to establish a dictatorship .
16 The Special Commissioner was entitled to find on the facts whether it was reasonable for an inspector to have formed an opinion that a notice should be raised requiring information from a taxpayer .
17 In the second half of the century British governments seem to have gathered no intelligence at all in this way .
18 A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory .
19 The defendant must be proved to have been indifferent to an obvious risk of injury to health , or actually to have foreseen the risk but to have determined nevertheless to run it . ’
20 It would have required an enormously creative imagination to have foreseen the kinds of jobs that the children and grandchildren of those farmworkers would now be engaged in .
21 But he is unlikely to have foreseen the next blow .
22 The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl .
23 She was a fool not to have foreseen the outcome .
24 It was held that the defendants were liable because they ought to have foreseen the possibility of the chemical coming into contact with water and they had not warned the buyers of this danger .
25 Chris Lander , the Daily Mirror 's cricket writer and the only man to have marched every step of the way with Beefy on his walks , is amazed at how Ian carries on the torturous pace .
26 ‘ It will not be satisfactory to have marched a lot of money up the hill , only to march it down again .
27 The weary DHSS staff of respectable old Oxford were relieved of certain unpleasant duties in the early autumn of 1982 when a 200-strong squad of police mopped up unsuspecting itinerants said to have defrauded the welfare state by allegedly drawing social security for rent when they were sleeping rough .
28 Celest is n't the only unusual animal to have frequented the families living room … in the past they 've also enjoyed the company of a goat .
29 Celest is n't the only unusual animal to have frequented the families living room … in the past they 've also enjoyed the company of a goat .
30 Owner Lachie Stewart aims to have re-built the 16th-century fortress he bought two years ago by December 1999 .
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