Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think erm it 's interesting erm to listen to desert island discs the last two weeks that the luxury item chosen has been a piano and people are saying that they would like very often , there are a lot of people who 'd like the opportunity to have learnt a musical instrument . |
| 2 | His partner in the conspiracy , James Laming , who claimed during the trial to have invented a racehorse nobbling stun gun , was jailed for 14 years . |
| 3 | This is a split in two by the prominent crack of Scylla ( VS 4c ) — a fine , ever steepening line until a traverse left avoids the obvious direct finish ( E2 5c ) : one of only four lines on the crag to have used aid on the first ascent . |
| 4 | ‘ The unit assures us that the decision to have frozen meals delivered to disabled and elderly people , instead of having them prepared in the person 's house by a home help , is not a money saving measure , ’ she said . |
| 5 | In the literature to have survived from the sixth century , however , the legacy of Sidonius is as significant as that of Lérins . |
| 6 | In each case , our conclusions have been tentative and we are content for the present to have made the links between these diverse disciplines and the study of sign language . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 8 | The commitment to ring fence for as long as necessary , as Baroness Hooper said in another place , will allow the Secretary of State arbitrarily to decide that , if he wishes to allocate the funds to some other project , he could deem the necessity to have ceased . |
| 9 | That is , the probability is 1 in 1000 for the result to have occurred by chance . |
| 10 | Ackner , L. J. in the more recent case of A. Lambert Flat Management Ltd. v Lomas pointed out the need for the defendant to have encountered some ‘ special difficulty ’ preventing compliance with the nuisance order , such as illness , or non-receipt of the notice . |
| 11 | But are there electoral advantages for the opposition to have declared themselves for PR ? |
| 12 | Pat 's Jester was defeated by Twin Oaks at Haydock on Wednesday , with jockey Neale Doughty reporting the horse to have finished sore . |
| 13 | Held up in a jam on , say , the M25 we curse the planners for not having the foresight to have built a five-lane motorway joining up to other five-lane motorways . |
| 14 | He 's the second teenager living at the home to have died as a result of solvent abuse . |
| 15 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |
| 16 | The intention of this law is in doubt ; the idea that it was specifically directed against Kimon , whose mother was Thracian , fails because Kimon is now thought to have died as early as 451 , too early for the law to have touched him . |
| 17 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 18 | If not in priority need , particularly if considered for the purposes of the Act to have become ‘ intentionally homeless ’ , persons may receive only advice and ‘ appropriate assistance ’ , leaving much to an authority 's discretion . |
| 19 | In the exercise of his power of arrest , it was perfectly proper for the constable to have taken into account that ‘ there was a greater likelihood … that Mrs Mohammed-Holgate would respond truthfully to questions about her connection with or knowledge of the burglary , if she were questioned under arrest at the police station , than if , without arresting her , questions were put to her … at her own home from which she could peremptorily order [ him ] to depart at any moment ’ . |
| 20 | I am merely reporting on the fate to have befallen every other Minister for Sport you can care to mention which is one of the reasons why we are still debating the kind of football stadiums we should have for the future when every other country besides Botswana and the Cocos Islands have already built theirs . |
| 21 | We suppose the starting-to-work to have occurred necessarily . |
| 22 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 23 | In this example , it would have been easy for the teacher to have made the child 's decisions for her . |
| 24 | Many people were said to said to have lost their nerve in the ‘ catastrophe ’ and in the heat of the moment to have given voice to ‘ comments hostile to the State ’ . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 87 of the Act of 1985 required that the successor to a tenancy should have resided with the tenant during the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death , but did not require the residence to have taken place for the whole of that period in the premises to which succession was claimed ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to succeed to his deceased brother 's tenancy ( post , pp. 133B–E , 135C–F ) . |
| 26 | This protection for the local authority does not require the residence to have taken place for the whole 12 months in the house to which succession is claimed . |
| 27 | ‘ If there 'd been a way to avoid this mess , we 're experienced enough in the business to have spotted it ! ’ |
| 28 | In rare circumstances a purchaser may seek to argue that the vendor has breached a warranty to such an extent that it considers the vendor to have repudiated the contract . |
| 29 | Leith 's prose is as emotionally loaded as he can make it — Darwin himself ‘ confessed ’ that imagining the eye to have evolved was almost absurd ( Leith of course makes no mention of Darwin 's reference to the sequence of eyes from very imperfect to almost human in invertebrates ) . |
| 30 | No small part of the low earnings of many Negroes , Puerto Ricans , Mexican nationals , indigenous migrating farm workers , poor farm people and some of our older workers reflects the failure to have invested in their health and education . |