Example sentences of "to have [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | These are thought to have developed from small differences in the density of the early universe from one region to another . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Much the same might be said of David Capel , another member of that 1990 Caribbean party to have fallen on hard times . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Manual workers are not the only occupational group to have to cope with imposed controls . |
| 17 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 18 | There are some notes where incomplete airframes have been listed and those that we have tagged ‘ Airworthy ’ indicate that the aircraft are known to have flown in recent years . |
| 19 | The history of mathematics — long held by the Classical Greeks to have originated from Ancient Egypt — was swept under the academic carpet and lost . |
| 20 | The mineralisation is thought to have originated from barium-rich formation waters or remobilisation of sedimentary baryte concentrations in Devonian — Carboniferous sequences ( Gallagher and others , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | The bulk of Lewis 's book is pure literary history , though its earlier chapters refer to the strange pseudo-religion of Love which appears to have originated in twelfth-century Provence . |
| 22 | He wondered , in his Inverness passage , whether it was ‘ peculiar to the Scots to have attained the liberal , without the manual arts , to have excelled in ornamental knowledge , and to have wanted not only the elegancies , but the conveniences of common life ’ . |
| 23 | Children used to have to work in dreadful conditions , in factories and mines . |
| 24 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |
| 25 | Their financial status seems to have varied at different times in her life from the reasonably comfortable to the distinctly shabby genteel . |
| 26 | For companies established or providing services in different member states to have to adjust to different regulatory regimes may lead to a duplication of accounting , licensing and countless other requirements . |
| 27 | ‘ Blenkinsop is being extremely co-operative , and while I admit that his conversion into an upright citizen seems to have come with indecent haste , nevertheless , he was oddly compelling . ’ |
| 28 | This empirical and time consuming search for an effective strategy was mentioned by many arts interviewees , although every advisory teacher appears to have come to similar conclusions ultimately about which classroom practices were effective and which not . |
| 29 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 30 | dolphins show marked development of those parts of the brain responsible for orientation , social skill , emotional self-control and perhaps even humour … . they seem to have responded to social and sexual pressures rather than to the purely physical . |