Example sentences of "[adv] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 2 | She is ranked sufficiently highly to have gone straight into the main draw , but made it clear that the Games were inconvenient for her schedule this years , as she had a lot of points to defend in tournaments . |
| 3 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 4 | But the promotions appear not only to have brought resentment among officers who were passed over but also failed to overcome unrest at hardship caused by US sanctions . |
| 5 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 6 | Often there are letters in the papers from parents who have sent off for T-shirts and pictures from a band 's fan club , only to have their cheque cashed and to receive nothing for months . |
| 7 | The purpose of such deeds seemed obscure — why carry a bike up a mountain only to have to push it down again ? |
| 8 | Although France wants American soldiers in Europe , America 's leadership in the Gulf war ( in which France at least played a part ) seems only to have confirmed French fears that military co-operation outside Europe means American domination . |
| 9 | David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test . |
| 10 | The misery was shared by France 's Ville de Paris , who collided with Nippon and lost both the umpire 's verdict and most of the her bow , and New Zealand , who came from behind to cross the line 2ft in front of Il Moro di Venezia only to have the victory overturned when the umpires ruled she had brushed the finish-line buoy. 6univ |
| 11 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 12 | By means of an appeal to Lenin , Bashkirs were able to secure some positions in the government , only to have their agreement with Moscow cancelled a year later when Bashkiria was forcibly incorporated in the RSFSR . |
| 13 | Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own . |
| 14 | In order to survive the jungle and live to tell the tale it is important not only to have good companions , but also to have the best available equipment . |
| 15 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 16 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 17 | Furthermore , anyone who has spent days and nights cramped into hides being rained on , only to have every twinge of discomfort dispelled instantly by the appearance of a bird or animal , will recognise the authenticity of Tomkies 's experiences watching eagles . |
| 18 | As far as I recall , the Krooms were not the best tacticians and kept trying to throng out of holes in the ground only to have their bodies dismembered and decapitated by the two knights . |
| 19 | They fought 50 rounds , only to have the fight stopped because of darkness . |
| 20 | We prayerfully proceeded with the purchasing process , only to have the property survey reveal a £5,000 defect . |
| 21 | The greatest deprivation was German sausage , made more intense for one boy who had brought a whole salami all the way from Vienna only to have it thrown away by a Dovercourt helper ‘ because it did n't smell right ’ . |
| 22 | Theresa , who does n't mind being called a whore but starts screaming if anyone calls her retarded , is the kind of character who seems to promise a fate worse than rape , but the greatest violence reside in Al , who tries to calm himself with images of lambs , only to have them open their mouths to show him teeth and worms . |
| 23 | Bill Morrison was posted here during the war and amazed everyone by contacting the hotel in 1991 to return one of their beer glasses which he had had since waiting at the bar one night during the way only to have them run out of beer . |
| 24 | By talking to him all night and keeping him on his feet , Luke had saved Spike 's life , only to have him try again successfully a week later when the story finally hit the press . |
| 25 | They fling them in with all the other paraphernalia , only to have the line exposed to the hard bits , hooks , swivels and carbon tubes in one glorious fight for survival ! |
| 26 | Rovers , without the injured Alan Shearer , went ahead through Roy Wegerle only to have their day spoiled by goals from Bontcho Guentchev and Chris Kiwomya . |
| 27 | He then moved to France to join John Fellows , ‘ winning ’ the Ascot Gold Cup in a canter only to have the race taken away from him when jockey Cash Asmussen was found guilty of careless riding . |
| 28 | Almost three years later , Mr Reed , one of the four defendants found guilty in the Blue Arrow case only to have their convictions quashed later on appeal , feels his name is finally cleared , legally at least . |
| 29 | The tapered-sided gable-lidded coffin was being challenged by the new single-break flat-lidded shell , though it appears only to have been the middle classes who focused attention on style . |
| 30 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |