Example sentences of "[adv] to have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is ranked sufficiently highly to have gone straight into the main draw , but made it clear that the Games were inconvenient for her schedule this years , as she had a lot of points to defend in tournaments . |
| 2 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
| 3 | How is it that this problem seems only to have emerged in the last few years . |
| 4 | If the project is to be judged a success in the long term , it must be seen not only to have engaged children and staff in project schools in new ways of perceiving and using libraries , but also to have created a viable and dynamic framework for the further development and dissemination of good practice . |
| 5 | The purpose of such deeds seemed obscure — why carry a bike up a mountain only to have to push it down again ? |
| 6 | Although France wants American soldiers in Europe , America 's leadership in the Gulf war ( in which France at least played a part ) seems only to have confirmed French fears that military co-operation outside Europe means American domination . |
| 7 | Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own . |
| 8 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 9 | I am concerned that your correspondent rang Climbline at 7.15pm only to have to listen to that day 's forecast . |
| 10 | He had assured her he would be able to lead her out of the forest , but so far they seemed only to have become tangled further in its mazy pathways . |
| 11 | Even the much-vaunted " Charity School Movement " of the early decades seems only to have helped stop a poor level becoming worse . |
| 12 | Although the mechanism of accumulation of the humbled bones presents a puzzle , the discoveries of the latest in a long series of excavations by Spanish workers , reported on page 534 of this issue , seem not only to have settled the question of the affinities of the Atapeuerca hominids , but also promise to clarify our understanding of the evolution of humans in Europe . |
| 13 | Five soldiers and two other lieutenants from the elite US-trained Atlacatl battalion were judged only to have obeyed orders and were acquitted . |
| 14 | The government was reported by June only to have initiated proceedings for the extradition of Gustavo Stroessner in compliance with an order for his arrest on corruption charges issued by a criminal court in March . |
| 15 | But the promotions appear not only to have brought resentment among officers who were passed over but also failed to overcome unrest at hardship caused by US sanctions . |
| 16 | Currently , an author may go on a major promotional tour only to have sold 800 books when it is over . |
| 17 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 18 | " Careful , Stephen , " they both seemed endlessly to have said . |
| 19 | Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction . |
| 20 | But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage . |
| 21 | He was not prudent enough to have saved , so he began to be in want . |
| 22 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 23 | If you are fortunate enough to have secured an agent you will have someone with whom you can talk . |
| 24 | He was fortunate enough to have secured the nineteen forty volume of short stories from his local library . |
| 25 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 26 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 27 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 28 | Not that she was n't old enough — she was well old enough to have seen a family through university . |
| 29 | But there are worse things than loneliness , and I 'm old enough to have seen 'em . |
| 30 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |