Example sentences of "to have be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 2 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 3 | In addition , Mrs Jones was dissatisfied that little attention appeared to have been given to Tom 's problems in school . |
| 4 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 5 | An extremely important item , housed in the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna , is the pure silk Hunting carpet , believed to have been given to Emperor Leopold I by Peter the Great . |
| 6 | Relatively little thought appears to have been given to developing systematic forms of training in the area of music in worship , and little assessment of the quality of training seems to take place . |
| 7 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 8 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 9 | That has to have been explained to you on the phone . |
| 10 | Whilst there has been some confusion as to exactly what ‘ remoteness ’ consists of ( it seems to have been equated to distance from London whereas it would seem to be psychological remoteness in the sense of inaccessibility of decision-makers which really matters ) , the lesson nevertheless seems clear . |
| 11 | The earliest cetaceans are thought to have been related to primitive ungulates or hoofed mammals , who returned to the sea some 50 million years ago . |
| 12 | However , it does suggest that the patient 's distress beforehand was more likely to have been related to environmental stresses than an endogenous illness . |
| 13 | Indeed , Eanwulf 's connections with Hwiccian territory appear to have been considerable , for he founded the monastery of Bredon in Worcestershire , of which Offa was subsequently a patron ( CS 234 , 847 : S 117 ; CS 236 : S 116 ) but Offa 's family is not certainly known to have been related to the princes of the Hwicce . |
| 14 | high % of blame seems to have been related to boy 's age . |
| 15 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 16 | In the event of dispute he had to give testimony , whose value often seems to have been related to his rank . |
| 17 | Even in the engineering companies the role of the unions seemed to have been limited to ensuring that , in other than their temporary status , temporary workers were not disadvantaged and received the same fringe benefits ( except membership of company pension schemes ) as regular workers . |
| 18 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 19 | THE Princess of Wales is understood to have been objecting to two claims . |
| 20 | Through Christ , who was and is God , it is considered to have been revealed to us what is God 's will . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've taken scrapings of those areas where the Scapegoat appears to have been secured to the frame . |
| 22 | A mortgage by Bishop Eadnoth of Crediton from 1018 ( S 1387 ) is said to have been declared to the borough meetings of Exeter , Totnes , Lydford and Barnstaple . |
| 23 | All are believed to have been sentenced to death for criminal offences but a warrant had not been signed for their executions and some were still appealing against their conviction . |
| 24 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | At least 100,000 million yen were alleged to have been diverted to the Inagawa-kai , the second largest crime syndicate in Japan . |
| 26 | Zeus 's head is lost , but seems to have been turned to his proper right , and on this , the side of good omen , one would expect Pelops to stand , as he does in fig. 124 . |
| 27 | The above effects are likely to be important only at or below the glass transition temperature but they do not seem to have been analysed to date , nor is there yet a molecular interpretation of the frictional forces between chains arising from these and other causes . |
| 28 | The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled . |
| 29 | Crowley regarded the most important event of his life as being his ‘ reception ’ in April 1904 of The Book of the Law , a prose poem which he believed to have been dictated to him by ‘ a praeter-human intelligence ’ . |
| 30 | The Assemblies never approved military intervention in Lebanon ; the small contingent of Libyan troops there was said to consist of volunteers , and the decision as to which of the groups within Lebanon they should support seems to have been reserved to Qaddafi . |