Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
| 2 | Thus , Gore was seen by many as an ideal candidate and was widely expected to have won the nomination if he had sought it . |
| 3 | ‘ Three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon will become meaningless , ’ grieves the new edition , widely expected to have been posthumous . |
| 4 | The attacks coincided with an official visit by President Pierre Buyoya to France , and were widely reported to have been instigated by the exiled Palipehutu movement ( Parti pour la libération du peuple Hutu ) . |
| 5 | Aid workers in Somalia , including those with UN agencies , were widely reported to have been dismayed by the prospect of a US-led military intervention . |
| 6 | The decision , which was officially taken for administrative reasons , was widely considered to have been taken in order to reduce the Cardinal 's strong socially progressive influence based on the doctrine of " liberation theology " . |
| 7 | Coun Dixon said the corporation 's support proves that Darlington is widely considered to have a housing crisis . |
| 8 | I am greatly honoured to have been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland in succession to Mr Michael Strachan , who retired in November 1990 after 16 years ' service . |
| 9 | In the barracks she apparently agreed to have sex with one man but then was surrounded by paratroopers chanting : ‘ Get them down , you Zulu warrior . |
| 10 | It makes me feel more than somewhat persecuted to have items of the British public lurking about my property — particularly when most of them have n't read two lines of my verse together . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah he said , but the girl that was with him said that you were very highly honoured to have a letter that length cos usually she gets dear oh I her name 's what her but dear whoever , got loads to tell you , love Mario . |
| 12 | So she said you 're highly honoured to have a letter that long . |
| 13 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 14 | The film stars Keifer Sutherland and Julia Roberts and concerns a group of unlikely student doctors who take it in turns to have their heartbeat stopped in order to experience the afterlife , which for some reason the director has chosen to portray as a series of rather unimaginative music videos . |
| 15 | But I feel that I am now in the way of bringing him to me since I have a house and am no longer in service and need only to arrange to have him brought over . |
| 16 | Occupational types , for example , whether crofters , fishermen or merchants , are together presumed to have more in common than they have to divide them . |
| 17 | I suppose being realistic we could clean the car out in the evening because you only got to have the door open you 've got the interior light on |
| 18 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 19 | Or , if that person buys you a gift voucher and you do n't necessarily want to have a treatment that states on the gift voucher , you can come and exchange it for products . |
| 20 | Yonge was sufficiently tainted to have to fall back on his brother-in-law 's , Richard Duke 's , borough of Ashburton . |
| 21 | ‘ His actual presence gave me a shock , ’ said Crossman then , ‘ and I much regret to have to admit finding something barbaric in his violent stage mannerisms . ’ |
| 22 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 23 | Two , maybe three , parachutists were dubiously reported to have been sighted , but they were never heard of again . |
| 24 | " Well , that 's very hypocritical of you , " said Clelia , " because you know quite well that she only wants to have James so as not to hurt your feelings . |
| 25 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |
| 26 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
| 27 | The other monks all claimed to have shared the same experience . |
| 28 | Both vadose compaction and early cementation only appear to have operated locally , however , as porosity has survived in the uppermost Hauptdolomit in Exloo-2 nearby ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 29 | However , the public rightly expect to have particular assurance about standards of safety in the nuclear industry ’ . |
| 30 | Kuwait , for example , was only expected to have cut back half its pledged 400,000 bpd , maintaining production above its 1,500,000 bpd quota . |