Example sentences of "to have given " in BNC.
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| 31 | Which British prime ministers are said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ Bob 's Your Uncle ’ ? |
| 32 | The Lib Dems seem to have given up altogether . |
| 33 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 34 | However , his blazing indignation appears to have given him a nasty dose of alliterative-itis in a NUPE press release condemning the report as ‘ more market madness mirroring the mayhem in the mines ’ . |
| 35 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |
| 36 | Cardiff manager John Lawless moved heaven and earth to get the Coopers back to South Wales this summer and is believed to have given them both an unprecedented £10,000 signing on fee and a £30,000 salary . |
| 37 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 38 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 39 | The third Duke of Roxburghe ( 1704–1804 ) , a collector on the grand scale after whom the exclusive bibliophilic Roxburghe Club was named , had a number of tracts concerning Mary Tofts , who perturbed the gynaecologists of her day by claiming to have given birth to a litter of rabbits . |
| 40 | Such approvals shall not be withheld or delayed unreasonably. must respond to any such request for approval within ten ( 10 ) days of receipt of same failing which will be deemed to have given its assent . |
| 41 | Then , reluctantly , she made her way home , a home in which , in some extraordinary way , the advent of one small baby appeared to have given rise to a revolution . |
| 42 | Celia kept slipping and Liza kept telling herself she was ridiculous to have given in to the child . |
| 43 | Years of the language battle seemed to have given me an inner eye . |
| 44 | He was said to have given MI6 information on Saddam 's Supergun and details of nuclear and chemical capabilities in Iraq . |
| 45 | Then Taylor looked to have given Swindon a winning lead , heading in a Hoddle free-kick after 77 minutes . |
| 46 | Then Taylor looked to have given Swindon a winning lead , headed in a Hoddle free-kick after 77 minutes . |
| 47 | Ironically , having entered muon catalysed fusion initially to get away from the frenzy of high energy particle physics , Jones was about to be catapulted into greater media attention and controversy than a career in particle physics was ever likely to have given him ! |
| 48 | Unlike the previous year Mozart only appears to have given one concert during Lent ; was he simply too busy , or was he perhaps no longer in quite such demand ? |
| 49 | Wright ( Finch and Groves , 1983 ) reports a small survey of single carers from which women were more likely to have given up employment than men in order to care for parents , sometimes giving up secure and well paid work when in their late forties or earlier fifties . |
| 50 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 51 | He was said to have given medical treatment to Iraqi soldiers who came to the hospital for treatment . |
| 52 | Ben and Mark Pretty , seems to have given those colonial chappies a good seeing to on their recent sojourn in Colorado , with numerous on-sight flashes of high grade routes . |
| 53 | The Irish defender was furious when he was judged to have given away a late penalty for tripping Andy Sinton . |
| 54 | This is not the start in life I would like to have given her . |
| 55 | How odd , she thought , that my mind can reason that out while my body seems to have given up . |
| 56 | ‘ I 'm sorry to have given you so little help last night , Dungarvan . |
| 57 | ‘ Regrettably , our ancestors of some thirty-five centuries back do n't seem to have given too much thought to posterity , by which I mean they left no records to satisfy their descendants ’ intellectual curiosity . |
| 58 | Yet the offer seems to have given Burton no pause . |
| 59 | ( This was a point on which Barth seems to have given Ritschl little credit ; but Ritschl so represented the things against which Barth was having to fight that he could rarely find anything at all to praise in him . |
| 60 | After four years ' hard labour , Xerox Corp is understood to have given up on its Ventura Software Inc desktop publishing software business and put the San Diego company on the block . |