Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banks were found to have delayed interest rate cuts to individual customers and small businesses to keep up profits . |
| 2 | Yet I feel it is unlikely to have delayed it so long . ’ |
| 3 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 4 | The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials . |
| 5 | The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials . |
| 6 | North seems to have intimated and exaggerated and hinted because , although he was engaged in secrets , he desperately wanted to be noticed ; and part of him , too , needed rescuing . |
| 7 | It was especially welcomed by the poor Islanders who were cleared from their crofts during the infamous Highland Clearances , and at the time of the potato blight many were said to have subsisted on it . |
| 8 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 9 | Eamon Wilson , The Beeches , Portadown , is alleged to have conspired with a person or persons unknown to make a threat to Sean McIvor , making him fear that if it were carried out he would be killed . |
| 10 | Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters . |
| 11 | In the face of many attacks , he continued imperturbably on his way — the dogs barked , but the caravan moved on — and this steadfastness seems to have aroused his critics to further ineffectual fury . |
| 12 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 13 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 14 | He immediately announced a wide-ranging programme of social and political reforms , which appears to have aroused the wrath of the tribes . |
| 15 | By the end of September an anti-Singh faction within the Janata Dal appeared to have coalesced around the Prime Minister 's arch-rival Chandra Shekhar . |
| 16 | Thus the family , neighbourhood , or work-place groups of older and younger men and a sprinkling of women , which seem to have formed the basic unit of attendance between the wars and before , broke up . |
| 17 | A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble , but red-hot lava began creeping over it yesterday and into a private orchard . |
| 18 | The vugs , fractures and intercrystalline pores , on the other hand , are thought to have formed in response to late leaching ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 19 | Brecciated carbonate mudstones are also present at this locality but are thought to have formed as debris flows during deposition rather than by solution-collapse . |
| 20 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 21 | If they are used for breeding , a pair bond appears to have formed . |
| 22 | After Wilfrid 's eventual return north , although Christianity stayed in Sussex it seems to have formed one of the less distinguished and lively dioceses of the English church , closely tied to the features and experience of the county generally but not emerging to direct secular life . |
| 23 | The Special Commissioner was entitled to find on the facts whether it was reasonable for an inspector to have formed an opinion that a notice should be raised requiring information from a taxpayer . |
| 24 | There are people here who believe they have an argument with Muller and his colleagues , an assembly of protest who claim to have formed on October 7 for the specific purpose of political disruption . |
| 25 | They are thought to have formed by partial melting of subducted oceanic crust — a process that would have been much more widespread early in Earth history than at present , owing to the higher thermal gradients prevailing at that time . |
| 26 | After only a week of this treatment complex molecules were found to have formed in the mixture , including sugars , nucleic acids and amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 27 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 28 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 29 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 30 | By contrast , certain defences are provided for the person who is not proved to have formed the intent , but whose language or conduct is likely to give rise to racial hatred . |