Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
| 2 | Mercator 's contemporaries seem to have found him brilliant but difficult . |
| 3 | Laura 's eyes seemed to have moved closer together . |
| 4 | ‘ But Tate 's pictures seem to have avoided the doldrums ; his prices have much more than kept pace with inflation . ’ |
| 5 | Holford 's planners had to have a broad cultural background and were to be ‘ enablers ’ , building up from research and synthesis to a design end-product . |
| 6 | Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better . |
| 7 | The Examination was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hiley , a Fellow of St. John 's College , Cambridge , and the School 's troubles seemed to have passed . |
| 8 | The current abortion debate in America , where women 's rights to choose to have an abortion may soon be overturned by the Supreme Court , has similarly divided this country . |
| 9 | Apple trees figure prominently in The Woodlanders , but today 's farmers seem to have given up making their own cider and the orchards have gone . |
| 10 | John 's problems seem to have arisen mainly from his own nature , the other side of the very qualities that brought him success . |
| 11 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
| 12 | The single-sex environment of mid-nineteenth-century US women 's colleges seems to have provided a uniquely supportive environment for the first women psychologists , for example ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) . |
| 13 | If the Bank 's lawyers fail to have the case struck out early on , they will probably appeal on the principle of regulatory immunity as far as the House of Lords , Britain 's equivalent of the Supreme Court . |
| 14 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 15 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 16 | Credit and debt repayments for housing , fuel , furniture and children 's clothes tend to have first call on the income , being deducted from benefit at source or paid early in the weekly budgeting cycle . |
| 17 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 18 | THIS picture shows the charred remains of art restorers ' materials said to have been found by investigators feet away from the seat of the Windsor Castle fire . |