Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 2 | Young designers to have suffered a similar fate to Ronay include Val Piriou , Joe Casely-Hayford and John Galliano , although Galliano is one of the luckier ones . |
| 3 | Held up in a jam on , say , the M25 we curse the planners for not having the foresight to have built a five-lane motorway joining up to other five-lane motorways . |
| 4 | Taylor was the first to realize that , on linguistic grounds , Swahili-land should be studied as three regions ; he was the first to study in depth the phenomenon of aspiration in Swahili ; he was the first and ( with the exception of H. E. Lambert ) the only European to compose and publish Swahili poetry ; he is the only European to have caused a new genre to be introduced to Swahili poetry , ‘ mahadhi ya Tela ’ ( Taylor 's tune ) . |
| 5 | She added that Howarth 's failure to appear prevented a full debate on science policy . |
| 6 | It shows San Carlo to have had a big nose and long ears , features which must have been real as they also appear in several portraits . |
| 7 | You suggest , in effect , that for some reason it is justifiable for boat owners who , after all , must have some financial resources to have acquired a permanent mooring in the first place , to be supported by ordinary countrywide residents , many of whom genuinely have little or no financial resources and who could not care less about a handful of sailors . |
| 8 | ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year … |
| 9 | If there are substantial doubts as to whether the provision of charity schools was ever sufficiently widespread , directed or differentiated from earlier , or later , efforts to have constituted a special movement , there is none that school provision for the poor in the middle and later years of the century remained uneven and spasmodic . |
| 10 | Thus it was that the world took such note of Fleischmann and Pons ' claim to have found a novel approach . |
| 11 | ‘ The truth is men like gadgets , they like to control their environment , ’ points out Dr Margaret Shotton , author of Computer Addiction ? and one of the few academics to have taken a serious look at video game culture . |
| 12 | The sites now considered to illustrate undefended settlements have been chosen at random since it would have required much research and fieldwork to have presented a comprehensive list in time for this Conference ; attention is merely drawn to a number of sites with the hope that they , and others like them may be studied in more detail by local efforts . |
| 13 | Moreover , the intricacy of the colouring can , and seems to be , influenced by horizontal and vertical circulation patterns in the atmosphere and by waves , both of which can transport material to altitudes where its colours are unstable but where insufficient time has elapsed for chemical reactions to have reached a new equilibrium corresponding to different colours . |
| 14 | I think erm it 's interesting erm to listen to desert island discs the last two weeks that the luxury item chosen has been a piano and people are saying that they would like very often , there are a lot of people who 'd like the opportunity to have learnt a musical instrument . |
| 15 | On Oct. 13 Azerbaijan was reported on Russian radio to have offered a mutual withdrawal of forces from Karabakh and the stationing of observers to be provided by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 16 | Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title . |
| 17 | Sudden and final loss of ability to walk turned a chronic problem into a crisis : emotionally she could not face this added challenge , and her marital relationship collapsed . |
| 18 | It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer . |
| 19 | Given its pattern of development , we consider elite theory 's methodological approach under two main headings : its claims to have developed a scientific research method and its focus on power and domination . |
| 20 | The classical elite theorists , Mosca , Pareto and Michels , all made strong claims to have established a scientific theory proving that government by a small elite over the rest of society is inevitable . |
| 21 | Today the Garrett manufacturing vase shows the company to have come a long way from the first detectors built on the garage bench . |