Example sentences of "[adv] to have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 2 | Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction . |
| 3 | By then hundreds of customer-nominated staff , lucky enough to have won in a quarterly draw , will have been presented with Ovations cheques which can be exchanged for a wide range of goods in a special catalogue . |
| 4 | Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species . |
| 5 | If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ? |
| 6 | He turned out to have escaped from an open prison in Dorking . |
| 7 | In fact and in fiction , not only in the Regency but in the eighteenth century as well , the upper classes seem rarely to have ventured beneath an impoverished roof , much less imagined what it would be like to live beneath one . |
| 8 | The proportion of the final value of silk goods returned to producers is substantial , sufficient indeed to have led to a major expansion of the industry in recent years , with visibly greater prosperity in sericultureal areas . |