Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Equally , one needs to have walked these roads oneself if one is to locate ‘ the inn low by the river 's edge ’ .
2 The Court concluded , rightly it is submitted , that the mere fact that the defendant happens to have committed another offence in addition to the one with which he has been charged should not preclude a conviction .
3 The flood disaster in July , which left 20 million hectares underwater , killed more than 2,000 people and made 1 million homeless , appears to have swayed Chinese officials to include the project in the next development plan .
4 No one appears to have recognized any difficulties with that .
5 However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party .
6 The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive .
7 Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business .
8 Here a combination of favourable ecological and economic conditions , at a particular historical moment , appears to have made this achievement possible .
9 This proposal aroused very considerable opposition from many of the institutions concerned and NAB itself made a reasoned case for some amendment , which appears to have made some impact .
10 Above all , where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers .
11 Where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers .
12 Indeed , in its newsletter , Good Practice , it says that the ‘ current economic recession appears to have dragged high-earning professionals of all disciplines into its maelstrom ’ .
13 No-one appears to have questioned this claim , examined the data , or checked whether any experiment had even been done .
14 Unlike the previous year Mozart only appears to have given one concert during Lent ; was he simply too busy , or was he perhaps no longer in quite such demand ?
15 He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression .
16 The phenomenon , which disrupts climatic conditions across the globe , normally appears every three or four years , but the latest El Niño , thought to have ended last summer , appears to have revived this spring , to the surprise of researchers who successfully predicted previous occurrences .
17 Which is that Quinn appears to have established some kind of wary empathy with this animal Zack .
18 We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there .
19 The later case of R. v. Felixstowe Justices , ex parte Leigh appears to have clarified this point , and the position now is that standing is related to the applicant 's interest in the case and not to the remedy sought .
20 To sum up , official government policy on the improvement of teaching quality in England and Wales appears to have identified three areas of influence in which intervention would be worthwhile : personal qualities , pedagogical skills and subject expertise .
21 These conciliatory figures were profoundly disturbed by the bitter armed conflict of the 1640s , and the Royalist Falkland appears to have committed virtual suicide on the battlefield at Newbury in 1643 .
22 However , that myth is not quite the one which appears to have penetrated everyday life , perhaps because the place of the victory is located within the borders of the Southern state .
23 He appears to have had one son and one daughter living at the time of his death , which occurred in Cambridge 7 December 1720 .
24 He married Agnes , widow of Augustine de Augustinis , physician to Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ] , and he appears to have had one son .
25 Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells .
26 The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people .
27 However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths .
28 Harcourt 's reasons for fleeing Normandy are not entirely clear : he was at odds with the Comte of Tancarville over the office of Chamberlain of Normandy , and he appears to have had personal grievances against Philip VI .
29 Amnisos ( Plate 5 ) appears to have had two harbours separated by a rocky promontory which was probably the heart of the town .
30 Some , like the Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , of which only a single item of evidence remains , appears to have had friendly relations with the National Sailors and Firemen .
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