Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The leftist 17 November group was reported to have claimed responsibility , and to have referred to Turkish policy towards Cyprus . |
| 3 | Crowds of 100 to 400 people were reported to have gathered in various parts of the city , chanting anti-EPRDF , anti-US and pro-Ethiopian unity slogans . |
| 4 | According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony . |
| 5 | Most woods have a multitude of banks , ditches and enclosures relating to their former management , which can be shown to have developed at different times . |
| 6 | Most seem to have developed between 1130 and 1200 , but on some estates the process must have been complete by 1183 when the Bolden Book was compiled . |
| 7 | Petitions from communities , or common petitions , were few in Edward 's reign , and though they may have derived something from the example of clerical grievances , they could hardly have failed to have developed from private petitions . |
| 8 | These are thought to have developed from small differences in the density of the early universe from one region to another . |
| 9 | Ninety three per cent of gall bladders were shown to be functioning and nine ( 9.8% ) contained stones , although five of these are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 10 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 11 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 12 | Two other specialized functions , those of religion and industry , stand out from the mass and not surprisingly numerous settlements throughout the empire can be shown to have developed around important sanctuaries or centres of manufacturing and extraction . |
| 13 | Their options business , normally for underlying amounts of DM10m-20m a day , are said by others to have jumped to ten times that amount . |
| 14 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 15 | Much the same might be said of David Capel , another member of that 1990 Caribbean party to have fallen on hard times . |
| 16 | The old building seems to have fallen on hard times , for on September 13th 1976 at a meeting of the owners , the A.P.C.M. , and the Health Dept. it was decided that No. 3 Chapel Houses tenanted by Mr T. Hawkins , was not suitable as living accommodation and the Housing Services Committee placed a Closing Order on the premises . |
| 17 | The total number in India was thought to have fallen to 2,500 , with perhaps another thousand elsewhere . |
| 18 | Yet at the broadest level the battle-lines could be said to have fallen into this basic pattern . |
| 19 | At Westland , Som. , for example , tesserae are said to have fallen into three distinctive sizes : 1 cm. sq. ; 2.5 cm. sq. ; and 3.5 cm. sq . |
| 20 | ‘ Even a government-commissioned survey has found consumption to have fallen by 70 per cent since the revolution . |
| 21 | Spending last year is estimated by the Chemical Industries Association to have fallen by 13 p.c. to £1.86 billion and is likely to be down by another 10 p.c. to £1.76 billion this year . |
| 22 | Fertiliser production for 1991 seems to have fallen by 5 per cent , worse than the predicted -3 per cent , and paints saw a similar pattern . |
| 23 | Cosmetic and perfume production appears to have fallen by 8 per cent and detergents by 3 per cent , compared to expected flat growth . |
| 24 | The cost of fuel , light and power to the domestic sector is estimated to have fallen by 8 per cent . |
| 25 | Heavy commitments in the social security budget had driven government finances deeply into deficit , and industrial production had slumped as interest rates rose ; manufacturing output was estimated to have fallen by 6 per cent in the eight months to August , and Sweden 's normally low unemployment rate had climbed from 1.5 per cent in January 1990 to more than 3 per cent . |
| 26 | The fall in production and tight wage controls led to a fall in living standards , and personal consumption was estimated to have fallen by 33 per cent between January and September 1990 . |
| 27 | In the UK , investment during 1991 is estimated to have fallen by 15 per cent in real terms , compared with the forecast drop of 10 per cent , according to the CIA 's panel . |
| 28 | So what tends to happen is that world , world agricultural prices fall , right , and that trend has been observed erm , er , it 's an im empiric empirically , agricultural product prices tend to have fallen in general sort of , over the last sort of , eighteen hundred years . |
| 29 | The marsupial 's population is believed to have fallen from 400,000 in the mid-1980s to around 200,000 today , and the rapid decline is continuing . |
| 30 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday that he appeared to have fallen from one of the offices on the third floor , but declined to surmise why he was visiting the Admiralty . |