Example sentences of "[verb] to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon will become meaningless , ’ grieves the new edition , widely expected to have been posthumous . |
| 2 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 3 | In the early days of independence , TANU and the Government appear to have been anxious to lower the political temperature , following the excitement of the previous three years . |
| 4 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 5 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 6 | Contemporaries often appear to have been uncertain as to how best to describe the political structure of their day . |
| 7 | The Chinese leaders appear to have been dissatisfied with a number of aspects of the Sino-Soviet treaty of 1950 , and at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956 they were reportedly unhappy about the manner in which Khrushchev had denounced the actions of Stalin . |
| 8 | Certainly in England some judges appear to have been unaware of the shift in emphasis which had taken place in the law . |
| 9 | In some cases these have clearly been achieved : housing policies , for example , appear to have been successful ( MacLennan , 1987 ; MacLennan , Munro and Lamont , 1987 ; Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Various types of cognitive therapy to bring an improvement in psychiatric disorders by altering maladaptive thinking appear to have been successful ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Indeed , in many cases of effective figural design , cartoons ( as well as structural guidelines ) appear to have been necessary . |
| 12 | In doing so they appear to have been guilty of idealizing the origins and early development of an institution which was in later times vastly important but which was , at least in this particular respect , rather less than ideal . |
| 13 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |
| 14 | They appear to have been premature . |
| 15 | Parliamentary Tickets appear to have been used to the end , although the need to supply a Parliamentary Train or trains had long passed . |
| 16 | In the main the roofs appear to have been thatched . |
| 17 | The judgments were very short and appear to have been extempore . |
| 18 | However , it is recognised that awards for comparable injuries should be comparable and in practice in an individual case the amount of the award is much influenced by the amounts of awards in previous cases in which the injuries appear to have been comparable , adjusted as appropriate in the light of the fall in the value of money since such awards were made . |
| 19 | The army authorities appear to have been afraid that they would intervene to prevent the arrest of the paramilitary officers and mounted a special operation by 43 Royal Marine Commando to arrest them also . |
| 20 | Both of these deals appear to have been routine commercial transactions , with scant political significance . |
| 21 | Described in this way the aims of the project appear to have been ambitious ; the teachers believed them to be quite modest . |
| 22 | Their office blocks appear to have been symmetrical and , as The Saturday remarked , based on the architecture of fourteenth-century Flemish Town Halls ; ‘ very picturesque and well massed up , albeit a little slight in parts , particularly the towers ’ . |
| 23 | Indeed , Eanwulf 's connections with Hwiccian territory appear to have been considerable , for he founded the monastery of Bredon in Worcestershire , of which Offa was subsequently a patron ( CS 234 , 847 : S 117 ; CS 236 : S 116 ) but Offa 's family is not certainly known to have been related to the princes of the Hwicce . |
| 24 | Lancashire burial registers , for instance , refer to fever , ague fever and pleurisy , but several diseases rather than a single culprit appear to have been responsible . |
| 25 | Although some catholic bishops are known to have been exiled during the reign of Alaric II , where there is any detailed evidence of the circumstances , factors other than religious conflict appear to have been important . |
| 26 | The practice does not , however , appear to have been universal , as witness the embarrassing conflict of judicial opinion recorded in the brief history of the Judges ' Rules which forms the introduction to the 1964 revision of the rules ( see Practice Note ( Judges ' Rules ) [ 1964 ] 1 W.L.R. 152 ) . |
| 27 | The level sand plains appear to have been attractive to settlers throughout pre-historic and historic times ( Ritchie , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | Some of the republics appear to have been sympathetic to this idea but in the end no common citizenship of this kind was established , which was hardly reassuring ( for instance ) to the very large Russian minorities in the Ukraine and Moldavia . |
| 29 | More remarkably , the Mohists appear to have been near to formulating the concept of functional dependence in the relation of motion to time , an idea that was not fully developed until the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in Europe . |
| 30 | His statement and robust delivery from the dispatch box in front of an initially sceptical House of Commons appear to have been sufficient to rally Conservative backbenchers . |