Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 2 | GKR claim to have developed a uniquely effective research procedure , but it is such a closely-guarded secret that its uniqueness and efficacy is impossible to judge . |
| 3 | All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture . |
| 4 | In its location there , on the Atlantic coast of north-western Spain , it appears to have received a constantly renewed nourishment and impetus through the maritime trade routes from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 5 | Cotter seems to have enjoyed a fitfully co-operative relationship with Wilson until 1921 , when the NSFU seceded from the National Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 6 | The major manufacture of the area , pottery , exhibits a wide variety of skills with corresponding wage levels , but skilled male potters seem to have enjoyed an unusually rapid wage increase from the late 1760s to the early 1790s , bringing a real-wage improvement of almost 50 per cent . |
| 7 | But Morse appeared to have boarded a completely different train of thought : ‘ I was just wondering about their dates of birth … ’ |
| 8 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 9 | Second , she has not only cleaned up her act , she seems to have adopted a remarkably apt late twentieth-century camouflage : from Baltic peasant to stereotypical dyke 's delight is a transition not normally catered for in those women 's magazines that offer readers new looks for new lifestyles . |
| 10 | ‘ You seem to have adopted a very cynical viewpoint , Matthew . ’ |
| 11 | During the night , it might have been useful to have adopted a more individualised approach . |
| 12 | That is why talks with GM are rumoured to have been more extensive than those with Ford , which appears to have adopted a more aggressive stance . |
| 13 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 14 | After about 45 minutes we noticed that the Post Office official , seated in the bucket seat across the fuselage from Dick and me , seemed to have turned a rather sickly white , and he even tried to stand up quickly despite his safety belt . |
| 15 | In the half century before the First World War , investors residing in Scotland appear to have made an increasingly important contribution to Britain 's position as the world 's leading capital-exporting nation . |
| 16 | Otherwise members seem to have exhibited a fairly normal range of personality and most seem to have been socially well-adjusted despite the extremism of their anti-semitic views . |
| 17 | Governments appear to have drawn a purely tactical conclusion from the ERM 's ordeal : never underestimate the strength of the financial markets . |
| 18 | Subsequent research seems , in fact , to have shown a very weak relationship between recall ( however measured , which is a technically very complex question in itself ) and other measures of advertising effectiveness . |
| 19 | A route which none the less delivered them to their destinations safely and on time , and proved , on later inquiry , to have avoided an entirely unforeseeable hazard or delay ? |
| 20 | Similar properties tend to have got a little stale , some not having taken account of weaker demand with their original asking prices . |
| 21 | I seemed to have got a significantly better offer on this . |
| 22 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 23 | The Solihull booklet seems to have had a powerfully benign effect on the attitudes towards SSE of Solihull secondary teachers in general . |
| 24 | Nixon had tried to govern without congress and Ford had been pathetically inconsequential ; Carter , in his memoirs , claimed to have had a reasonably good relationship with the legislature , but this was not a widely shared view . |
| 25 | There are reasons , therefore , why Britain might be expected to have had a somewhat higher than average share of its workforce in manufacturing industry . |
| 26 | Even the Greatest himself , Cassius Clay , alias Muhammed Ali , who seemed to have had a highly successful career during which a minimal number of punches were landed to his head , has suffered a brain condition which it is difficult to believe is unconnected with his trade . |
| 27 | Virtually any Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau building can be assumed to have had a highly elaborate shopfront beneath . |
| 28 | This fact is of great importance , for it carries within it irrefutable evidence that whatever definition of ‘ god ’ is finally accepted , mankind must be , if not the sole architect of it , then at least to have had a very considerable influence on it . |
| 29 | Fourteen years later , Atkinson might claim , at best , to have had a very modest effect . |
| 30 | No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights . |