Example sentences of "[verb] to have [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 More units might have been expected to have explored the extra income potential of specialised products .
2 In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career .
3 The new volume ties that information through its comprehensive indices , but also serves as a catalogue of Monet 's drawings , sketchbooks , pastels , caricatures and curiosities , which include three tapestries woven , with his approval , from his designs , and fragments of pictures which appear to have survived the ruthless pruning which he inflicted on works of insufficient merit .
4 Former Halifax man , Derek Hall was the executioner , who for once was devastated to have claimed the winning goal .
5 It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’
6 The other monks all claimed to have shared the same experience .
7 To this extent the law can be considered to have endorsed the corporatist perspective .
8 They also found that this same Robert Gravier was reported to have chartered the ill-fated Falcon Jet N888AR from Hansa Jet to take him from LaGuardia Airport , New York , to Acapulco .
9 In response an estimated 6,000 nationalists were reported to have demonstrated the same evening in Tirgu Mures , demanding that Hungarians not be granted separate education in their own language or minority rights .
10 The referee was reported to have blown the final whistle outside his dressing-room door .
11 On Dec. 6 , with the US Marine force offshore awaiting orders to land , a 100-truck aid convoy with armed guards was reported to have transported the first food aid to leave the port for over a month .
12 Milongo , who received only 10.18 per cent of the vote , was reported to have petitioned the Supreme Court on Aug. 11 to have the result of the first round annulled because of irregularities .
13 Although the sentences were to run consecutively , the court was reported to have reduced the total period of imprisonment by two years as a gesture of goodwill .
14 New York private dealer Stephen Hahn is reported to have sold the priciest picture of the show — ‘ Bertele Chat Sauvage ’ , a rare , early oil by Jean Dubuffet .
15 The annual award is for the trainee deemed to have made the greatest contribution to the Trainee Solicitors Group .
16 will deliver the Converted Text of the Work to no later than 30 days after the execution of this contract and will be deemed to have accepted the Converted Text of the Work within 30 days after the date of delivery , unless is notified to the contrary .
17 So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature .
18 This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality .
19 He believed there was nothing that medical science could have done to have changed the tragic outcome .
20 Yet in some strange way the bird seemed to have affected the easy relationship that had previously existed between them and , in trying to analyse her own feelings , Lucy knew that she now felt shy and rather embarrassed .
21 When Russian forces finally retreated from the Danubian Principalities in 1834 , Nicholas seemed to have achieved the final stabilization of his southern frontier .
22 Among the main Democratic contenders Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton seemed to have overcome the recent spate of " character issues " which had threatened to destroy his candidacy , but finished second to the former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas in the New Hampshire contest .
23 And in the September 1957 election the FDP seemed to have chosen the wrong course when its share of the vote fell below 8 per cent , whilst the CDU — strengthened by the 1957 pension reform — won just over half the votes cast .
24 His gargantuan repast seemed to have put The Fat Controller in a better mood and avuncularity seeped back into his tones the further we got away from the pizzeria .
25 Throughout Cecil was followed by a bobble-hatted man , who seemed to have forgotten the former party chairman was not standing in the election .
26 No one , in those early days of nuclear weaponry , seemed to have anticipated the adverse effect it would have on the men sheltering below .
27 It was then still some twenty minutes short of midnight , though they seemed to have devoured the greater part of the night already in this improbable interview .
28 The economic miracle of the decade seemed to have passed the inner city by , leaving a few localities outside the new society .
29 Rambo the lamb is reckoned to have broken the local record , weighing in at twenty two pounds .
30 If this was the overall assumption then , given that the communists were reckoned to have captured the nationalist movement in Vietnam , there could , logically , be no other course open to the US — France , naturally , would have her own reasons — than to resist .
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