Example sentences of "to have [verb] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BAe 's stockbroker , Hoare Govett , was in the market again yesterday but is not believed to have added significantly to the stake . |
| 2 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 3 | President Babangida of Nigeria was reported to have responded favourably to the delegation . |
| 4 | They seem to have moved firstly to the coastal places of the west , and then inland along the river valleys — natural enough for groups who rowed across the North Sea and the Channel in open shallow-draught boats . |
| 5 | Federalism is even more important but at present Paul does not pretend to have got close to the issues . |
| 6 | ( Import restrictions , held responsible for a fall in the country 's external trade deficit , reported on Jan. 15 , were understood to have contributed substantially to the scarcity of industrial raw materials and capital goods . ) |
| 7 | One in a patient of 82 years who had a gastric ulcer and one in a patient with grade 2 oesophagitis , which is unlikely to have contributed substantially to the anaemia . |
| 8 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 9 | Polar plants appear to have adapted positively to the long days , long nights , low light intensities and other special conditions ( Chapter 2 ) of their environment . |
| 10 | The shortage of walnut resulting from this winter combined with the heavy demand for walnut gunstocks during the War of the Spanish Succession appears to have led directly to the French ban on exports in 1720 . |
| 11 | And the observation , without further discussion , that the omission of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ is deliberate seems to have led directly to the erroneous conclusion that a supposed appropriation with the consent of the owner is one of the four ingredients which are required ( and which suffice ) to constitute theft . |
| 12 | The pious and happy deaths of good little boys and girls , with , for variety , the occasional frightful deaths of irreligious children who were assumed to have passed straight to the eternal fires of hell , are continually described and lingered over in children 's books of the eighteenth and nineteenth century , from Janeway onward . |