Example sentences of "[det] to have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The JMCs had no power of their own , except persuasion , but reported directly to the State Security Council ( SSC ) , formerly presided over by P. W. Botha , which was considered by some to have become the de facto government where the real decisions affecting the country were taken . |
2 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
3 | But now a paper in The Lancet ( 341 , 889 ; 1993 appears to some to have thrown a spanner in the works : certainly it has caused a furore of misinterpretation by newspapers and others . |
4 | Busti , who completed the reliefs in the early sixteenth-century , was known as Il Bambaia , another to have acquired a curiously Milanese nickname . |
5 | For me , it is enough to have seen the extraordinary gold web of your hair , and to have touched that whitest and most delicate cheek with my lips . ’ |