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

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1 While he declared that the Lebanese , Syrian and Iranian governments were to continue to support resistance to Israel , he was believed to have given some undertakings to the Lebanese government on restraining Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon .
2 Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping .
3 Adobe claims to have solved this problem with a Postscript-based file format called the Portable Document Format ( PDF ) .
4 Fortunately for the Government , this short debate in the House of Lords seems to have attracted little attention from the press , and it continued to receive general approbation for the exhibition , with the relevance of the competition remaining largely unquestioned .
5 The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight .
6 Also , we appeared to have caught this bear in a rare good mood .
7 They do not , however , seem to have possessed any programme for the betterment of lay society .
8 The authorities seem to have adopted that slogan of the insurance company .
9 No , I think that we would have liked to have seen more women , I would have liked to have stayed on the Shadow Cabinet , and I would have liked to have seen more women in the Shadow Cabinet , but to say it 's a disaster , and somehow we 've moved away from the path we 've set ourself is simply not the case .
10 The Buryats are known to have suffered several epidemics in the middle of the eighteenth century , and later it was the Itelmens of Kamchatka who were reduced by almost two-thirds .
11 Twenty-five-year-old Frank James is alleged to have stabbed another man at a house in Hermitage Street on Saturday .
12 He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse .
13 The new art-form developed by Plato would not have existed without Socrates , who , in any case , seems to have felt some misgivings about the sufficiency of rationality himself .
14 However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party .
15 The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive .
16 Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business .
17 You 'd , you 'd expect me erm er with my finger on that pulse to have made that point to the directors , may be help me make it several times during our sort of discussions about er both this year 's budget and next year 's projections .
18 As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine .
19 Strangely , Shepherd seems to have shown little interest in the effects of the electric media ; indeed , his account of the present-day situation assumes an even tighter grip by the ‘ industrial world sense ’ , the system created by literacy and print being generalized as a ‘ symbolic-technological filter ’ which regulates the processes of communication vital to socialisation and the creation of consciousness ’ ( Shepherd 1982 : 149–50 ) .
20 By April 19 The Times reported that the police had visited the offices of a number of Istanbul publishing houses and that printers had cancelled orders to print 18 periodicals deemed in the past to have shown some sympathy to the Kurdish cause .
21 as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’
22 They seem , however , to have had little support amongst the lords , and the opposition which undoubtedly existed to Gaunt 's reversal of the acts of the Good Parliament lacked leadership and co-ordination .
23 WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks .
24 The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people .
25 As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well .
26 To understand it , it helps to have had some experience of a bartering society .
27 He appears to have had some doubts about the establishment of the Protectorate , but accepted the reassurances of the Admiralty secretary , Robert Blackborne .
28 Will the chairman of the Tory party send that money back to its rightful owners , bearing in mind the fact that the Labour party has agreed to send back Maxwell 's money , if it is found to have had any connection with the Mirror group pension fund ?
29 It could well be significant that Cnut is not himself said to have had any connection with the document , and it may reveal little of the real business of the Oxford meeting .
30 They were used to rubbing shoulders with Tatars in regions west of the Urals , and seem to have had few trances of the sense of racial superiority which other European colonists took with them .
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