Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat . |
| 2 | A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble , but red-hot lava began creeping over it yesterday and into a private orchard . |
| 3 | The threads of connection binding the people into a fabric seemed to have thinned to invisibility , the little steadings turned in on themselves like snails in a drought . |
| 4 | I ask because a witness claims to have seen a woman entering your yard by the yard door at about II.30 . ’ |
| 5 | A witness claims to have seen her in Alexandra Road last night at about 11.15 . ’ |
| 6 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 7 | Despite the interest of some well-known industrialists , manufacturers as a group seem to have contributed only in proportion to their weight in the population . |
| 8 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
| 9 | er harvesting , and he was frightened that he was getting a bit panicky cos if , you know , frightened a combine had had run over it . |
| 10 | A person claiming to have dispossessed another must similarly fulfil both these requirements . |
| 11 | Less than a quarter claimed to have read all of it or to remember the topics it dealt with . |
| 12 | A winter-flowering cherry , planted in memory of someone in a place I can not visit to water regularly , bit the dust last spring , but a replacement seems to have become established and even had a few blossoms this winter . |
| 13 | Yet in May , the most august of all such journals , the Proceedings of the Royal Society , will carry a paper claiming to have identified a new evolutionary force . |
| 14 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 15 | A CORONER has said he was not prepared to accept some key evidence from a woman alleged to have had a love affair with Constable Allen Moore . |
| 16 | An 18th century mill-worker 's wooden object zipping through a loom seems to have evolved into a vehicle of space travel . |
| 17 | Marriage to a Frenchman seemed to have erased her Spanish origins completely . |
| 18 | A man alleged to have stabbed his girlfriend with a kitchen knife after a domestic dispute was released on bail by Scarborough magistrates yesterday . |
| 19 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 20 | It was a call for help from a man claiming to have committed serious , awful crimes . |
| 21 | The City 's ability to keep a secret appears to have improved beyond measure over the past two years . |
| 22 | I made the choice at random , the sole criterion being that a book had to have come from a library and have a recognisable sign of its origin . |
| 23 | DARLINGTON 'S newest entertainment venue opened yesterday after a refit thought to have cost about £500,000 . |
| 24 | ‘ A destroyer claimed to have damaged one , I think . ’ |
| 25 | A shadow seemed to have fallen over them , perhaps a premonition that they would never see each other again , and they stared at each other as though trying to commit each other 's features to memory . |
| 26 | Indeed it is from the comparative studies of how different societies have reacted to these issues , that the view of Japan as a model to follow has emerged . |
| 27 | A consensus seems to have emerged that some kinds of blue-green algae started to extract hydrogen from the planet 's richest resource , the oceans . |
| 28 | Many a feminist seems to have become fixated upon Mary in recent years . |
| 29 | Now that we are a little more prosperous , the habit of bringing a bottle seems to have dropped off . |
| 30 | This kingdom spread itself over Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde and for a time seems to have included Orkney . |