Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilfrid is claimed to have baptised 250 slaves of both sexes at Selsey and there is the celebrated case of ‘ Angles ’ from Deira , an area approximating to the historic county of Yorkshire , being sold in the market-place of Rome c . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 4 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 5 | It was a stunning sight , and as I lay idly in the boulders that are reputed to have fallen 1600 metres and half a mile from the South Face of La Meije to the Chatelleret , I thought of the climb to come and let the daylight drift over me . |
| 6 | Prices fell throughout the first half of 1990 due largely to the anticipated failure of the Association of Tin Producing Countries ( ATPC ) to attain by December 1990 its target of cutting by 6,000 tonnes its world stockpile , reported in February to have totalled 43,200 tonnes . |
| 7 | It claims to have completed 220 ports in 10 years . |
| 8 | The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino ( LDP ) , the country 's largest political party , was reported to have won 17 Senate seats , and around 85 seats in the House , but remained highly unstable following the divisions which had been exposed in the run-up to the elections . |
| 9 | According to the official results of a general election held on Dec. 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , the ruling People 's National Congress ( PNC ) was returned to power winning 42 of the 53 seats in the National Assembly ; the principal opposition party , the People 's Progressive Party ( PPP ) , withdrew from the election on polling day alleging widespread ballot-rigging by the government , but was subsequently declared to have won eight seats . |
| 10 | Well , we have a particularly clever syndicate , who 've managed to have won five times so far this year , and Tony is here from the syndicate . |
| 11 | Nationalist Party supporters of Cojuangco appeared to have won 48 seats in the House , and the Liberal Party was thought to have won 15 . |
| 12 | Ayatollah Taqi al-Mudarrisi , spiritual leader of the radical Islamic Works Movement which claims to have organised three assassination attempts on the Iraqi president , says internal change in Iraq , without war , would be the best outcome for the whole region . |
| 13 | The bomb which the IRA left in the hospital is estimated to have contained 20 lb of Semtex . |
| 14 | Frustrated by the delay in the peace talks , Polisario has resumed fighting and claims to have occupied 10 miles of the Moroccan lines . |
| 15 | You need to have picked one vertex and just draw |
| 16 | By last night , Labor appeared to have clinched 77 seats in the 147-member lower house , equalling its previous standing , after drawing a uniform swing in its favour of 1.98 per cent . |
| 17 | The man must obviously have been armed to have kidnapped two adults single-handed but she did n't say so . |
| 18 | ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman . |
| 19 | So the experimenters are at the stage where they might just have expected to have seen one Zo . |
| 20 | The engine was reputed to have done 99,000 miles by the time it was extracted from the old Herald in 1988 , but Tony is sceptical . |
| 21 | The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away . |
| 22 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 23 | A routine audit is understood to have uncovered 120 furniture contracts , including orders destined for 10 Downing Street , which have been renewed without holding an open competition as required by European Community rules . |
| 24 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 25 | He was reported to have presented five demands ; if Libya acceded to these demands the imposition of sanctions would be forestalled . |
| 26 | He organized the horseless carriage exhibition — the first motor show in England — in Tunbridge Wells in 1895 , and was said to have written 56,000 letters in the campaign to abolish the legal anomaly which required a man with a red flag to walk in front of what was classified as a ‘ locomotive ’ at no more than four miles per hour . |
| 27 | Whereas expulsion — a fate to have befallen 15 senators since the foundation of the US republic — required a two-thirds majority , however , denunciation needed only a simple majority . |
| 28 | Currently , an author may go on a major promotional tour only to have sold 800 books when it is over . |
| 29 | In the UK , Dataman claims to have sold 15 Solair 10/30 and Classic boxes and expects to sell 100 by the end of the year — 2,000 across Europe . |
| 30 | In the UK , Dataman claims to have sold 15 Solair 10/30 and Classic boxes and expects to sell 100 by the end of the year — 2,000 across Europe . |