Example sentences of "to have [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 2 | Preston might have preferred to have been called Blackpool , all things considered . |
| 3 | Dickerson and Lee seem to have been saving Malcolm X up for years ; they were buddies at film school . |
| 4 | It has been an open secret for several months that Hill Samuel was willing to entertain reasonable offers and several possible buyers have apparently shown an interest , but Brewin Dolphin is understood to have been given exclusivity in the negotiations earlier this month . |
| 5 | Following her husband 's death , she is said to have been given Weston Hall as a Valentine present by her father [ Sitwell , 5 ] . |
| 6 | He seems to have been meeting extremists at parties , as well . |
| 7 | In two separate instances , at least four persons were reported to have been killed Peshawar and Karachi after being hit by stray bullets as a result of aerial firing by trigger happy individuals . |
| 8 | SBus performance is also claimed to have been increased 25% . |
| 9 | In places , they are so crowded that their bodies touch and the cliff seems to have been painted crimson . |
| 10 | Howard 's influence as a kind of unofficial gadfly and inspector of prisons was significant ; his parliamentary and legislative contribution more so , although in retrospect there seem to have been missed opportunities and errors . |
| 11 | He 's understood to have been smuggling cigarettes from Gibraltar into the Spanish Enclave of Ceuto . |
| 12 | Following on from the evidence of tension in Permian Europe , in the Trias there seem to have been rifting structures everywhere , such as , for example , the horst and graben structures of the Midland coalfields of England . |
| 13 | Dostoevsky 's main offence seems to have been reading Belinskii 's " Letter to Gogol " . |
| 14 | Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ? |
| 15 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 16 | What is more , Gavel 's largest shareholder , investment group Stratagem with 31 p.c. , is still refusing to sell out and is rumoured to have been buying Gavel 's convertible shares in an attempt to block any capital reconstruction . |
| 17 | In early February the Senate was reported to have been considering government proposals to reject responsibility for more than $200,000,000 in loans to the Stroessner government from international lending agencies . |
| 18 | Among the rules and conditions for admission to this establishment a person had to have been resident in the parish for three years to have been receiving parish relief , and to be able to recite the Lord 's prayer and Apsotles ' Creed , also they shall not be an enemy of the Gospel or Established religion , nor a common swearer , adulterer , thief , picker , hedge breaker or drunkard . |
| 19 | A primary purpose of the nine-day flight was to have been gathering evidence on how the human body adapted to weightlessness . |
| 20 | The Edmond family is reported to have been running crime rings , in a small way , for generations . |
| 21 | Not even the flexible front spoiler , though it looked to have been playing bulldozers . |
| 22 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 23 | The changes seem to have been alternating periods of humid conditions and aridity . |
| 24 | However , Smith effectively confirmed Muhlfeit 's assertions that a case is to be brought against an electronic bulletin board service company , which is reported to have been distributing software for free as part of its service to its subscribers . |
| 25 | Now that the legal framework for the rest of the century appears to have been set attention can be given to the task of interpreting it for governors . |
| 26 | 45:10 : in times of famine nomads from Palestine are known to have been allowed pasturage in the eastern delta . |
| 27 | Well , now the FADs are galvanised — on record , thanks to Fall producer Craig Leon , who transformed recent comeback single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ from a bitter mumble into a magnificent , eloquent tirade — but live , they appear to have been studying drama at summer school . |
| 28 | So little bone and teeth remain in buzzard and red kite pellets after digestion , even though prey is known to have been ingested whole , that usable samples are not produced . |
| 29 | For all the talk of Forest missing Des Walker , Cloughie 's big blunder seems to have been selling Teddy Sheringham to Spurs without first finding a suitable replacement . |
| 30 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |