Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The only woman trainer to have won the National , Jenny Pitman , has two horses to watch .
2 It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized .
3 Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) .
4 It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget .
5 Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection .
6 Judy Jones , team leader , mental health , Brent SSD : ‘ It 's an exciting , engaging time for professionals ; it sharpens practice to have gone through it .
7 Nomadism is not the only unusual farming practice to have come to light as a result of the team 's research in the rainforests of South-east Asia .
8 The CC is greatly at fault to have ignored this .
9 It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole .
10 Spending last year is estimated by the Chemical Industries Association to have fallen by 13 p.c. to £1.86 billion and is likely to be down by another 10 p.c. to £1.76 billion this year .
11 It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply .
12 In 1968 Fields and Stanbury updated Break 's UK study and found the net disincentive effect to have grown to 8% of the population .
13 He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous .
14 Indeed , they probably will be the most attractive President and Vice President to have resided in the White House .
15 For such a result to have occurred in the birth-place of European integration even two years ago would have been unthinkable .
16 That is , the probability is 1 in 1000 for the result to have occurred by chance .
17 The colt is the only horse to have beaten the flying Arazi and is a stablemate of Tertian , the 6–1 favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 2 .
18 The other two acceptors are Kingmambo , the only horse to have beaten Zafonic , and the John Dunlop-trained Ventiquattrofogli .
19 Kingmambo , the only horse to have beaten Zafonic , is the clear form pick .
20 If the Sun Chariot emphasised the spreading cloak of Arab domination , then the Cambridgeshire proved there is still a place for the smaller owner when Jeremy Glover sent out Rambo 's Hall , the only horse to have won for him this season , to gain an equally facile success .
21 Pat 's Jester was defeated by Twin Oaks at Haydock on Wednesday , with jockey Neale Doughty reporting the horse to have finished sore .
22 The most stubbornly uncategorisable woman musician to have emerged in all of this is Polly Harvey .
23 There is some kind of epidemic of withdrawals going around Crystal Palace this year , and the Norwegians are not the only side to have suffered .
24 Airdrie have ended Hearts ' interest in the Scottish Cup in the past two seasons and are the only domestic side to have beaten them home and away this term .
25 When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police .
26 Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision .
27 Hereford need a win at Torquay tomorrow … they 've done it once this season in the coca cola cup … the only side to have won at Plainmoor this season …
28 Lawyers should be ashamed that they have allowed the law of defamation to have become bogged down in such a mass of technicalities that this should be possible . "
29 But it was an elderly shipwright on the beach who explained that all foreigners were called that here , since the only other outsider to have lived in the village was an Englishman named Collins , who , it turned out , had spent many months here during the 1930s .
30 One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out .
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