Example sentences of "[adv] to have [vb pp] " 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 | How is it that this problem seems only to have emerged in the last few years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even the much-vaunted " Charity School Movement " of the early decades seems only to have helped stop a poor level becoming worse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Five soldiers and two other lieutenants from the elite US-trained Atlacatl battalion were judged only to have obeyed orders and were acquitted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Currently , an author may go on a major promotional tour only to have sold 800 books when it is over . |
| 14 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 15 | " Careful , Stephen , " they both seemed endlessly to have said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was not prudent enough to have saved , so he began to be in want . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you are fortunate enough to have secured an agent you will have someone with whom you can talk . |
| 21 | He was fortunate enough to have secured the nineteen forty volume of short stories from his local library . |
| 22 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Not that she was n't old enough — she was well old enough to have seen a family through university . |
| 26 | But there are worse things than loneliness , and I 'm old enough to have seen 'em . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 30 | Buy this for him , and thank God you 're young enough to have missed them . |