Example sentences of "[vb base] to have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Royal Navy spokesman said : ‘ They appear to have gone off course and were about five miles from shore . ’ |
| 2 | A few of the clauses in the Declaration appear to have referred to what could only be Whig grievances . |
| 3 | Forty of the escapees were killed by local hunters but the remainder appear to have survived by hiding in inaccessible rocky areas and adapted to the local terrain , which is similar to their natural habitat in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 4 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 5 | Both main parties appear to have fallen for the rhetoric about the rising tide of crime among the young despite statistical evidence which plainly suggests that the problem has declined in recent years . |
| 6 | The Inspirals appear to have fallen into a crack in the US market . |
| 7 | Besides the meetings at Mercereau 's and the Closerie , the painters began meeting regularly at Le Fauconnier 's studio in the rue Visconti as well , where during the closing months of the year they watched with interest the development through successive stages of his Abondance , a painting that all appear to have regarded as an important , revolutionary work . |
| 8 | The fact that the tropics appear to have remained at approximately the present temperature despite major changed in the Equator-to-pole temperature difference ( and the associated heat flux out of the tropics ) strongly suggests the presence of some stabilizing mechanism for the tropics . |
| 9 | AD 160 across the courtyard building , after which it was not rebuilt although the baths appear to have remained in use . |
| 10 | Similar trading pacts appear to have operated amongst Dissenters . |
| 11 | Food costs appear to have risen at both establishments , even though Marie has secured improved terms from the suppliers . |
| 12 | Too few of his greatest paintings are sold at auction to be indexed but appear to have risen at least twice as fast . |
| 13 | The implication was that the efforts to reduce the use of remands in custody , which appear to have met with some success in the last two years after the spectacular rise of the custodial remand population during the 1980s , were having unintended and unwanted effects on the crime rate . |
| 14 | The hominoid primates appear to have emerged during the Oligocene at least 25Myr ago as a tropical African group inhabiting tropical forests in an equable climatic regime . |
| 15 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
| 16 | Many respondents , especially those answering ‘ no ’ , interpreted question 1 by focusing on the traditional model of sole practice , and appear to have answered on the assumption that support for any enforced modification of the present model would give rise to a negative response . |
| 17 | At other times in the past , temperatures appear to have fluctuated by as much as 10 degrees centigrade over a couple of decades . |
| 18 | ‘ You appear to have kept in touch with many of them . ’ |
| 19 | In order to gain acceptance for their interpretation of educational problems , researchers , administrators and politicians usually find it necessary to ‘ explain' the problem ; to pinpoint the processes which appear to have led to it in such a way as to make the remedy appear obvious . |
| 20 | Moreover , changes in the way that tickets are distributed for big rugby matches at Twickenham appear to have led to an increase in the number of rowdies . |
| 21 | These disturbances must have been minimized , however , where the defences ran through the fringes of the main settlement , as they appear to have done at Kenchester . |
| 22 | The numbers recorded appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 23 | Numbers appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 24 | In the Department of Environment in London and in the Department of Energy and the Department of Health they appear to have quit at lunchtime . |
| 25 | These appear to have grown at the edge of the platform and were surrounded by oolitic sand shoals ( Peryt et al . |
| 26 | These did not result from the Pleistocene glaciation ( in fact none of the ice ages of the past appear to have coincided with mass extinctions ) , but all occurred after the final retreat of the ice . |
| 27 | ‘ Although prices appear to have dropped by up to 15 per cent , ’ states Craig Woollam , associate director of the company 's Winchester office in his end-of-year review , ‘ nursing and residential care homes in good locations have maintained their values . |
| 28 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 29 | After the reorganization this part of the process seems to have worked relatively smoothly , but injustices appear to have occurred in the comparative chaos of the earlier period . |
| 30 | These two key members appear to have acted on behalf of , and in the name of , the committee by negotiating contributions to specific sections of the proposal with the representatives of the sectional interests . |