Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was he who helped to have removed those lines in the inscription on the Monument which accused Roman Catholics of starting the Great Fire of London . |
| 2 | Jan. 7 President 's family reported to have escaped to Abu Dhabi . |
| 3 | Jan. 26 Siyad Barre reported to have fled the capital in a tank , to an unknown destination . |
| 4 | José Francisco Pena Gómez of the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , reported to have come third with 25 per cent of votes cast , called on May 17 for national understanding and the formation of a government of reconciliation , to end the polarization of the country into followers of the two major candidates , whose personalities had dominated the campaign . |
| 5 | All the individuals referred to have contributed to the creation of goodness to a degree above that which is being created by millions of people in their ordinary day-to-day dealings . |
| 6 | Between these extremes comes the chronic depression found to have affected one in three mothers with pre-school age children in a London study of working-class families . |
| 7 | Brewers found to have diluted their products were to be incarcerated in their own vats . |
| 8 | So too have the damages awarded by US courts against manufacturers found to have polluted the environment to a degree that has recently been decreed unacceptable . |
| 9 | Wingti vowed , if elected , to initiate a thorough investigation of all charges and to prosecute and imprison all senior officials found to have engaged in corrupt practices . |
| 10 | Despite many a scratched hand , the official ruling is that any pedigree cat found to have had its claws removed is automatically and unconditionally disqualified from competing . |
| 11 | It stemmed from the outbreak of Minamata disease among the Japanese who had eaten fish and shellfish containing substantial quantities of organic mercury compounds — found to have originated from the direct discharge of factory effluent . |
| 12 | On being told by the manager to check with the bank , he pretended to have done so and assured the manager that the cheque was ‘ as good as cash , ’ whereupon the manager authorised the transaction . |
| 13 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |
| 14 | Ferranti continued with presentations yesterday to the group of more than 10 companies believed to have expressed an interest in bidding for the company or providing it with equity capital . |
| 15 | A great white shark , believed to have killed a 31-year-old scuba diver on his honeymoon in Australia , was spotted today . |
| 16 | Abductors believed to have killed James |
| 17 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 18 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 19 | I have recently purchased a yearling filly believed to have come from Bodmin Moor . |
| 20 | Earlier police had defused two more motor scooter bombs found in central Bombay 's crowded gold and diamond market , and arrested two other men believed to have sold the motor scooters to the bombers . |
| 21 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus searched the buildings for more than hour But two youths , believed to have started the fire , had disappeared . |
| 22 | Missing , believed to have scarpered with the manager of Boots . |
| 23 | Four people sustained minor injuries and the van burst into flames ; the two people believed to have carried out the attack , however , escaped on a motorbike . |
| 24 | The mother of a three year old boy believed to have dropped a baby girl who was found dead at a playgroup has expressed symapathy for the child 's family . |
| 25 | Another serious problem with purely atmospheric dynamical models is that the hemispheres were out of phase with respect to the orbital precession cycle believed to have triggered the transition from the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM ) deep freeze 11 kyr before present to Holocene warmth . |
| 26 | The Reporter , Gordon Sloan , inferred that the South Ronaldsay community were all involved in the abuse he believed to have taken place there . |
| 27 | It is then asked that the witnesses be examined either in accordance with a given list of questions , which will have been drafted by the applicant party , or regarding certain matters summarised in the letter of request itself ; an example might be ‘ a road traffic accident believed to have taken place in the sight of the witness at such-and-such a place and time ’ . |
| 28 | In the south of the country , four immigrants and an Italian were killed near Naples in late April in a gun battle believed to have taken place when local drug dealers attempted to eliminate competition from a group of illegal African immigrants . |
| 29 | ‘ A major pile-up on the E 35 near Freiburg … reported eight cars involved … heavy casualties … also reported a large refrigerated truck driving north along the southbound lane caused the latest holocaust … the truck driver believed to have died in the pile-up … more details in our next news bulletin … |
| 30 | In this case it is open to question whether the authors of the limited number of extant documents were writing about contemporary events or were recording what they believed to have happened , based on oral tradition . |