Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the tribes to the north and west of this divide minted coins or appears to have had any contact with Rome in the pre-conquest period . |
| 2 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |
| 3 | The true population of genes , which constitutes the working environment of any given gene , is not just the temporary collection that happens to have come together in the cells of any particular individual body . |
| 4 | I would be most grateful if you could cast your eye over the script ; the one area that seems to have gone a little awry is the Language Review but I 'm sure we can sort this out during the shoot . |
| 5 | Douce 111 is a fifteenth-century manuscript that seems to have remained in France until being obtained by the nineteenth-century collector , Douce , and it has been deduced that the Middleton manuscript was taken as plunder from the French town of Laval during the later stages of the Hundred Years ' War , between March 1428 and September 1429 . |
| 6 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 7 | The point that seems to have struck him is the total opposition between son and father , Ingeld/Ingjaldr and Fróda/ Fróthi . |
| 8 | He was anxious about travelling , and worried that he might miss his train or enter by accident the wrong one : this was a fear that seems to have lingered since his youth when , as he said , " I found a variety of calamities to worry about . |
| 9 | His ears still have that ringing that seems to have become part of his headache . |
| 10 | It is an unusual piece of consumer advertising , but Southend is a town that seems to have lost its way . |
| 11 | But will they be able to break the marriage curse that seems to have fallen on the House of Windsor ? |
| 12 | One brand new product that seems to have scored a huge hit at the recent MacWorld show is Adobe 's Illustrator . |
| 13 | This is another of those modern Western diseases that seems to have mushroomed up from nowhere over the past fifty years . |
| 14 | Well that seems to have sorted itself out , actually . |
| 15 | A ring that seems to have disappeared . |
| 16 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 17 | One crop that seems to have flourished in the late eighteenth-century Weald was hops ; the rapid expansion of the Georgian population produced an urgent demand for more beer , not only to escape the worst features of contemporary living but as a very basic foodstuff for the poor . |
| 18 | Richard Barnett reports on the Bank Holiday festival that seems to have taken everybody by surprise . |
| 19 | Kitty says she got involved in amateur home porn video-making through swinging , the Seventies open-marriage ‘ lifestyle movement ’ that seems to have regained popularity among some suburbanites in recent years . |
| 20 | It was that failure of implementation that seems to have prompted Leon Panetta , Mr Clinton 's budget chief , to unburden himself of melancholy thoughts on April 26th . |
| 21 | Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period . |
| 22 | I mean York City Council will obviously er Mr Curtis will obviously give his views on the situation , erm the particular issue that seems to have changed the mind of York City Council is the reference in P P G thirteen , transport to sizes of new settlement not being erm er desirable in in in transport terms , small scale resettlements . |
| 23 | Anyway , love it is that seems to have smacked me one now , and I 'm standing there hugging her in that thin nightdress and the thought of those bastards with the dog makes me squeeze her till it hurts . |
| 24 | But that is nothing compared to the inflation that seems to have occurred in the early universe : an increase in size by a factor of at least a million million million million million times in a tiny fraction of a second . |
| 25 | One of the most remarkable events recorded in the geological record is the major nuclear explosion that seems to have occurred in the vicinity of the Oklo uranium mine in Gabon some 1800 million years ago . |
| 26 | Well for example one of the things , one of the consistent kinds of changes that seems to have occurred is an attempt to deny polytheism , but there are lots of places in the Bible where it has n't been consistent and where God on occasions speaks in the Bible erm as if other gods could exist , like I , I , I 'm the Lord , I 'm a jealous god . |
| 27 | But I could n't agree more with Philippa Davenport when she writes of the formality that seems to have overtaken marriage celebrations , particularly in England ( page 47 ) . |
| 28 | The best known of the three bore the official name , dating from the 16th century , of Joueurs de violons , hautbois , saqueboutes et cornets , but was informally known as the 12 Grands hautbois du roi ; also attached to the Ecurie ( the king 's stables ) were the six Hautbois et musettes de Poitou , the ensemble that seems to have provided the winds for Les nopces de village . |
| 29 | Actually that seems to have fizzled out . |
| 30 | The only one that seems to have used his sense in this situation was the dog . ’ |