Example sentences of "[noun] to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents . |
| 2 | He considered this action to have been successful , as the right wingtip struck the ground first , followed by the nose . |
| 3 | Trust Rune Christensen to have been involved with the most exquisite-looking woman in the room ! |
| 4 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 5 | The court held that for the application of the rule to have been lawful it would have had to be justifiable irrespective of race or ethnic or national origins . |
| 6 | Scattered statements in the biographies of other scholars in Taskopruzade show Molla Yegan to have been active in teaching in the years following 1430 , although , interestingly enough , the medrese at which he taught is never named . |
| 7 | In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby there was no doubt that the defendant knew of business secrets but the court decided they were far too complicated and detailed for the defendant to have been able to carry them away in his head and as there was no evidence of actual copying , this part of the claim failed . |
| 8 | I have no detail of what individual Liberal Democrat councillors in Brent did , but , if it was perceived by the electorate to have been wrong , they would have undoubtedly paid the political consequences at the following election . |
| 9 | The Hungarian authorities consider the experiment to have been successful . |
| 10 | It is evident from the comments made by the nouveaux romanciers that they considered themselves to be developing and integrating the formal experiments of writers drawn from a carefully selected modernist canon , suggesting that they judged modernism to have been incomplete in the French novel before their arrival . |
| 11 | She had informed Elizabeth Mowbray of the girls ' exchange of identities — information which the duchess had received thankfully , believing the exchange to have been necessary for Anne 's safety . |
| 12 | For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point . |
| 13 | The House of Lords held that for the directors to have been negligent in taking this course they would have had to have been ‘ cognisant of circumstances of such a character , so plain , so manifest , and so simple of appreciation , that no men with any ordinary degree of prudence , acting on their own behalf ’ would have entered into the transaction . |
| 14 | Mrs Browning had declared it was all too bad , too dreadful an imposition to have been responsible for and that she would not be able to look the Ogilvys in the eye ever again after causing them such vexation . |
| 15 | Merleau-Ponty 's response was to argue that history itself had shown Marxist philosophy to have been flawed ; such philosophy must therefore give up its claim to truth . |
| 16 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 17 | The English monks seem for some years to have been able to resist the discipline of Lanfranc . |
| 18 | ‘ Who considers those persons to have been involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws ? |
| 19 | This blurring of class identities may have provoked Manet to have been impressed , not so much by Paris 's streets , but by the ‘ queerness ’ of the people who used them.go It is this sort of ‘ flattening ’ of identity in the creation of blasé urban character that occasioned Clark 's observation that ‘ the pleasures of seeing ’ in Haussmann 's Paris involved ‘ some sort of lack ’ , a certain ‘ brazenness ’ . |
| 20 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 21 | Although it seems in actuality to have been common enough , the empty hearth or inadequate smoking fuel , like Alice Wilson 's ‘ damp coals , and half-green sticks ’ , is a poignant symbol in the novel , suggestive of every kind of deprivation . |
| 22 | A leading article described the CNAA process as ‘ sticky and demanding ’ and believed that when the Council finally approved diversified courses in the colleges they would find the efforts to have been beneficial . |
| 23 | An examination of the transcript of what the judge actually said in full not infrequently shows the comments to have been excessive and unfair . ’ |
| 24 | Advising Client as to whether KPMG considers the conditions of the Offer to have been satisfied . |
| 25 | Mrs Xoliswa Falati was reported last week to have been involved in an eviction dispute with Mrs Mandela , wife of the African National Congress leader , and to have telephoned a newspaper seeking help , before being driven off in a car with several men . |
| 26 | Cool-headed and light-hearted about life , Zeelenberg is not the sort of man to have been worried by the doubters . |
| 27 | Then , briskly , to me : ‘ I sometimes think it 's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child . |
| 28 | David Pytches and Brian Skinner have written an account ( unpublished at the time of writing ) questioning the usefulness of parish boundaries and citing twenty-seven precedents in which they believe the parish boundaries to have been unhelpful . |
| 29 | Mr Major won enough useful points in support of Britain 's well-advertised aversion to punitive sanctions to have been able to brief Sunday papers about a ‘ British victory ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Major won enough useful points in support of Britain 's well-advertised aversion to punitive sanctions to have been able to brief Sunday papers about a ‘ British victory ’ . |