Example sentences of "to have given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , glider designers seem to have given up all-moving stabilisers in favour of a fixed tailplane and normal elevator . |
| 2 | By then Wyllie , the sole selector , hopes to have given all 30 players a game . |
| 3 | They share a parent , who seems to have given them both the same handsome shiny leaves . |
| 4 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 5 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 6 | From Moscow , Mr Gorbachev is believed to have given personal orders that his troops should stay firmly in their East German barracks during recent demonstrations and not respond to local provocation . |
| 7 | We have all heard stories about GPs alleged to have given patients short shrift with remarks like : ‘ Throw away your crutches . |
| 8 | TWO days after the US invasion of Panama , Britain is still the only member of the European Community to have given public support to the action . |
| 9 | It has waived the rules that used to bar nuclear-powered ships from using the Suez Canal , and seems to have given landing rights to American military transport aircraft . |
| 10 | To have given full details at that earlier point would have been to remove the sting from the report to Eli , and spoil its shock . |
| 11 | By the following morning 's exercises — discussion of how to set about winning a Labour seat when the other candidate wo n't share a public platform with you , a mock television interview and a debate , several of the candidates who appeared strongest — including a chairman of the party 's Bow Group — seem to have given up the fight . |
| 12 | In November 1940 , for example , ‘ personal economic worries ’ in the light of the coming second war winter were said to be widespread and to have given rise to ‘ discontented and sceptical thoughts ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Syria still likes to portray itself as the sworn enemy of the Israelis , but the Ba'ath Party officials who rule with an iron hand appear to have given up trying to stop their citizens tuning in to the ‘ Zionists ’ wavelength . |
| 15 | Its situation south of Turnham Green is thought to have given rise to its name locally , in the first case . |
| 16 | These were The Cock and The Bull , and anecdotes arising out of their proximity and rivalry were said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ cock and bull story ’ . |
| 17 | Any passengers who is denied boarding on the outbound flight for that reason , shall be deemed to have given notice of cancellation of his/her booking at that moment , and Cancellation Charges will apply in accordance with paragraph 4 above . |
| 18 | Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 19 | Poulter argues that it would have been inappropriate to have given all the principal religious traditions represented in Great Britain equal weight in the RE syllabus , since it would leave Christianity being reflected in just one-sixth of the course . |
| 20 | Apple trees figure prominently in The Woodlanders , but today 's farmers seem to have given up making their own cider and the orchards have gone . |
| 21 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 22 | One of those charged was George Finbar O'Doherty , who was alleged to have given a command in Irish to the colour party . |
| 23 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 24 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 25 | Whether they themselves are therefore put off the idea or they think their clients will object , is hard to say , as very few bureaux seem to have given the system a try . |
| 26 | To the man on whose support he would now increasingly depend , he wrote a little before the end , ‘ It is not pleasant , Thomas Poole ! to have worked 14 weeks for nothing — for nothing — nay — to have given the Public in addition to that toil five & 40 pounds ! ’ |
| 27 | Where the two offices were united in one structure , Angell and Pownall seem to have given them an equal place on the Foreign Office and War Department lists , no doubt thinking that the implementation of the project would be considerably easier if the same architect were carrying out both offices . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , owing to some inexplicable negligence , ’ — he sighed and shook his head — ‘ they seem to have given us the slip . ’ |
| 29 | With minds on absent players 'Mere started cold and were lucky not to have given away a large margin within the first few minutes . |
| 30 | In this respect it was similar to the ban on P. G. Wodehouse 's novels during the Second World War when his broadcasts in Germany were believed to have given the Nazis propaganda support . |