Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was beginning to have a sense of Man things and natural things . |
| 2 | He was condemned to have his tongue cut out , his right hand chopped off and then to be burned . |
| 3 | He was bound to have a sumptuous place . |
| 4 | He was ruled to have brought down Rob Jones and Marsh blasted in the 77th minute penalty . |
| 5 | Long before Davidson was ushered out , he was perceived to have failed . |
| 6 | Dr. Briant says he was born to have a nice way with him . ’ |
| 7 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 8 | Late last night he was believed to have taken well over a third of all the votes cast in the Sicilian capital . |
| 9 | In 1912 , he was believed to have attempted to board the ill-fated Titanic only to be refused , thus saving his life . |
| 10 | Grant was not himself a landowner in Perthshire , but he was believed to have influence with those who were , and his correspondent insisted that |
| 11 | And by virtue of a document that purportedly ‘ came to light ’ in the eighth century , the so-called ‘ Donation of Constantine ’ , he was believed to have conferred certain of his own secular powers upon the Pope . |
| 12 | Paul Smith has argued that Disraeli was no great reformer but was of enormous value to the party because he was believed to have been one ; in rediscovering Disraeli , the USRC rediscovered the myth too . |
| 13 | Furthermore , although he was believed to have committed more than one murder , he enjoyed a surprisingly mild and genial reputation . |
| 14 | A warrant for Zhivkov 's arrest had been issued on Jan. 18 , but he was believed to have been effectively under house arrest at one of his 30 former official residences since shortly after his resignation in November 1989 . |
| 15 | He returned via Tunis where he was believed to have held discussions with Yassir Arafat , the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 16 | While he declared that the Lebanese , Syrian and Iranian governments were to continue to support resistance to Israel , he was believed to have given some undertakings to the Lebanese government on restraining Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon . |
| 17 | Of the members re-elected to the standing committee , Premier Li Peng 's commitment to Deng 's reform programme was equivocal and he was believed to have conservative sympathies . |
| 18 | He was believed to have been badly affected by the death of his wife last April . |
| 19 | He was said to have been a strong swimmer . |
| 20 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 21 | By the time he was forced out of office by the Watergate scandal in August of that year , observers were openly speculating as to whether he had become mentally unhinged and he was said to have lost his will to live . |
| 22 | He was said to have returned to his own room to finish a card game of patience before reporting finding the body . |
| 23 | He was said to have given MI6 information on Saddam 's Supergun and details of nuclear and chemical capabilities in Iraq . |
| 24 | He was said to have given medical treatment to Iraqi soldiers who came to the hospital for treatment . |
| 25 | He was said to have refused a breath-test and was arrested . |
| 26 | When he returned at 8.45 p.m. , he was said to have been ‘ accompanied by a member of the Board , Detective Wells , five constables , four men and two medical men ’ . |
| 27 | And whenever Patrick consecrated a church , he was said to have left in it both the Gospels and a copy of the Mosaic Law . |
| 28 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 29 | In 1864 he received a first class in classical honour moderations , and then in 1867 a first in literae humaniores , even though he was said to have read no more than half the required books . |
| 30 | He was said to have shouted : " I must kill you " , before attacking . |