Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb past] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the campaign , constituency candidates were almost invisible to the electorate : very few electors claimed to have heard anything about them . |
| 2 | Some fibres seemed to have typical ultrastructural characteristics of myofibroblasts , and others to be transition forms between typical smooth muscle cells and typical myofibroblasts . |
| 3 | Apart from the obvious element of subjectivity involved in scoring the contribution of subject teaching to various areas of the pupil 's experience , some teachers seemed to have difficulty in identifying concepts . |
| 4 | Some fathers seemed to have invested hopes in their daughters of the kind we normally expect to be invested in sons : |
| 5 | The detective was constantly surprised at the men that some women deigned to have relationships with . |
| 6 | Some women decided to have their babies before they or their marriage became too old to begin or continue childbearing , as Eversley ( 1980 ) correctly forecast . |
| 7 | Repeated calls for restraint had been made by the ANC and Inkatha local and national leaderships , urging observance of the Jan. 29 joint peace appeal [ see pp. 37951-52 ] , but such appeals appeared to have little effect . |
| 8 | These schools appeared to have several things in common : first , each could be characterized as an ‘ innovative ’ school in some sense . |
| 9 | In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed . |
| 10 | These boards appeared to have certain common characteristics . |
| 11 | Such issues were not covered by policy , and these appeals tended to have a better than average chance of success ( 41 per cent as compared with an overall average of 31 per cent ) . |
| 12 | However , by the time of the debate in the Supreme Soviet on May 13 these fears appeared to have faded : in the light of the introduction by most Western governments of tighter immigration procedures for Soviet citizens , Soviet officials estimated that the number seeking to emigrate would be around 500,000 annually , little more than the 454,000 who had been permitted to leave in 1990 . |
| 13 | These children seemed to have got the message . |
| 14 | These soldiers appeared to have been hurriedly buried by the retreating Germans , they had probably died of their wounds . |
| 15 | True , she had prospered from her acquaintance with Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton , of the City police ; but all journalists had to have their sources . |
| 16 | THE prospect of a tour to South Africa has fired up the imagination of senior ALL BLACKS said to have been contemplating retirement after the World Cup . |
| 17 | At court , many factions manoeuvred to have their candidate chosen . |
| 18 | All participants claimed to have sold well ; of special note were Aurel Scheibler of Cologne ( showing English artist Simon Crabtree and American Dan Asher ) , Jay Jopling of London ( with a one-man show of Damien Hirst ) and Nordanstad-Skarstedt of New York ( with Korean Michael Joo 's pink styrofoam meditations on ethnicity and Rachel Berwick 's moths dipped in amber ) . |
| 19 | Many organisations seemed to have an in-built reluctance to defend their actions or even to provide a constructive and forceful image . |
| 20 | In addition , many firms claimed to have introduced flexible work agreements , with 71% claiming to have team-working and nearly two-fifths operating to a just-in-time production system . |
| 21 | So many players seemed to have nothing to do with the nations they were representing that asking them to picture their country would have been difficult enough , let alone vow anything to it . |
| 22 | H. P. Just prior to my joining , all policemen had to have their refreshments in shop doorways . |
| 23 | He hated avocado , kiwis and limes , and everything in those circles seemed to have little snippets of these on top of it . |
| 24 | Prophylactic antibiotics are therefore advisable in those patients found to have biliary obstruction and mandatory in those in whom the duct has not been cleared . |
| 25 | Those roller-boots proved to have vitrodur balls inset along the soles . |
| 26 | Somehow more children seemed to have arrived from the bedrooms in the flat . |
| 27 | B8 ) as depending upon the universal tendency towards adjustment of form and process ; to direct investigation towards the essentially multivariate character of geomorphic phenomena ; to admit a more liberal view of morphological changes with time to include the possibility of non-significant or non-progressive changes of certain aspects of landscape form through time ; to foster a dynamic approach to geomorphology to complement the historical one ; to focus upon the whole landscape assemblage rather than upon those parts assumed to have evolutionary significance ; to encourage geomorphic investigations in those areas where evidence for erosional history may be deficient ; and to direct attention to the heterogeneity of spatial organization . |
| 28 | On returning to England , he discovered that several hours appeared to have separated the time of the eclipse in Italy and in England . |
| 29 | Most of the attacks were near main roads , and the original police hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from one enclosed pasture to another ; then several horses seemed to have been assaulted in different places at the same time , although this is not certain . |
| 30 | Both techniques proved to have been subject to persistent human errors which accounted for at least part of the apparent change in the size of the Sun . |