Example sentences of "be [verb] to have " in BNC.

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1 The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection .
2 Lastly , it should be noted that a party who reserves legal rights following breach can still , as a matter of law , be regarded to have waived the breach .
3 ‘ I should be honoured to have your company at dinner , Miss Leonora X. Whenever you 're ready to come downstairs give me a shout and I 'll come and collect you .
4 It appears to me , for reasons which I shall give later , to be intended to have its ordinary meaning .
5 The versatile artist raises the question of relationship between the arts , and how far they can be considered to have the same or similar aims .
6 The person who makes the arrangements with the funeral director may be considered to have entered into a binding contract , and become responsible for the cost , even if they are not related to the deceased .
7 he will be considered to have nothing less than full acquaintance with the nature of the thing and to share in the knowledge of it .
8 Carbon dioxide generation for both coals is rapid and can be considered to have ended by 1% reflectance .
9 Essentially it may be considered to have been derived from the Nutku-Halil solution using the Neugebauer-Kramer involution described in Section 12.4 .
10 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided .
11 This Bill was gazetted only two months after the closure of one of Tanzania 's few private political newspapers — the last paper which could be considered to have been in open opposition to the Government .
12 Writing , as he did , in an era before medicine had even begun to construct its modern classification of psychiatric disorder , Lombroso included among his subjects many who would now be considered to have suffered from brain diseases of organic origin ( Julius Caesar , for example , was epileptic ) .
13 Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal .
14 A further controversy was over whether the girls could be considered to have brought the rape on themselves by being out at night .
15 An outstanding example of this sort of pattern in our own field is the synthetic fibre business which , historically , could be considered to have started in the days of rayon at the turn of the century .
16 To this extent the law can be considered to have endorsed the corporatist perspective .
17 This segregation of the sexes in paid employment may be considered to have both a vertical and a horizontal component .
18 Both judges expressed the view that the payments could not be considered to have been voluntary .
19 It is not clear how this issue could be resolved , other than by stipulation , and hence rather than attempt to reach a conclusion we will proceed to the more fundamental question of whether the shareholders should , in the first place , be considered to have a moral right to decide how companies should be run in virtue of their ownership of corporate property .
20 Surely a person who had not been caught and killed by the Melanisms could be considered to have been inspected and found harmless .
21 More than this , he appears to have served on numerous committees dealing with a wide range of bills : in this way , perhaps more than any other , he may be considered to have , as he put it , ‘ done my country some good , whereunto we are all called ’ .
22 Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case .
23 The results indicate that both groups of patients can be considered to have primary sclerosing cholangitis .
24 The similarity of the clinical features , the frequency of associated inflammatory bowel disease , age at diagnosis , and radiological extent of disease all indicate that these patients can be considered to have primary sclerosing cholangitis rather than sclerosing cholangitis secondary to calculi damaging the biliary tree and resulting in stricture formation .
25 No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure .
26 Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health .
27 This is a difficult area in practice as the legislation specifies no age at which children may be considered to have the requisite degree of understanding .
28 On the other hand , the jury can be asked to take the plaintiff 's own conduct into account in reducing damages — if he has taken steps to refute the allegations publicly , or has been cleared of them after a publicised enquiry , or has obtained retractions and damages from other publications , his wounds may be considered to have partially healed .
29 From this it would appear that a party can be considered to have waived his rights without full knowledge of the facts .
30 Let us first recall the classical continuum definitions of stress and then consider in what ways these need to be modified to have meaning at the molecular level .
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