Example sentences of "[adv] to have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 2 | Few of us are lucky enough to have escaped the shattering sensation of pure terror generated by nightmares : the experience can haunt our every action for days afterwards . |
| 3 | They are simply people who are lucky enough to have landed a free trip to a holiday destination , a trip paid for by an airline , a tour company , a hotel chain or any combination of the three . |
| 4 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 5 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 6 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 7 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 8 | The court found that the pilot appeared to have confused the vertical speed instruments with the altitude indicator , and thus to have selected an inadequate altitude shortly before landing . |
| 9 | Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression . |
| 10 | He is a spy , he is a traitor , perhaps he is fortunate not to have faced the extreme penalty provided for in the Criminal Code . ‘ |
| 11 | And , of course , every official New Zealand or British sitting in the stand claimed not to have witnessed a gross act of violence , right in front of their eyes . |
| 12 | ‘ If the author be a wealthy man ’ , said a reviewer in 1799 , ‘ he ought not to have suffered the poor peasant to part with the last of the flock ’ . |
| 13 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 14 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 15 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 16 | On the other hand , she comforted herself , the modern Dane , from what she had read and the little she had seen , appeared not to have inherited a great deal from his pillaging ancestors ! |
| 17 | It was also a mistake not to have organised a separate workshop on Islamic fundamentalism and Salman Rushdie 's book , because this ended up dominating discussion in the International workshops making it difficult to discuss other anti-imperialist issues . |
| 18 | Not to have mentioned the strong interaction and the quarks and gluons thereby made necessary is barely forgivable , the omission of neutrinos and the lepton generations other than the electron ( the and particles ) is less so . |
| 19 | He appears not to have had a ready answer to this question ! |
| 20 | That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum . |
| 21 | Soccer legend Sir Stanley Matthews , one of the best players ever to have graced the English game . |
| 22 | SOME GENTLE arm-twisting from President Bush appeared yesterday to have persuaded the Angolan rebel leader , Jonas Savimbi , to accept a resumption of a ceasefire in the Angolan civil war , and to re-open the peace process with the Soviet-backed government in Luanda . |
| 23 | The one study on which this latter conclusion is based can not be generalized to demonstrate that there is a specific deterrent effect for all other corporate offences , and in any case , it should be treated very cautiously , not only because a single study can often be shown later to have missed the general condition , but also because it flies in the face of empirically grounded deterrence theory . |
| 24 | Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , this doctrine has become especially important to those who feel as a matter of Marxist science that the proletariat ought by now to have enacted a revolutionary response to the crises which are seen as always present ; and their failure to do so is therefore commonly explained as an aspect of false consciousness , which prevented them from recognizing their proper historical duty . |
| 26 | The quivering net of light from the river seemed now to have set the whole room trembling . |
| 27 | Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic met Panic in Sarajevo on July 19 , and on July 30 , returning to Belgrade from a wide-ranging foreign tour , Panic claimed to have improved Yugoslavia 's image abroad , and particularly to have obtained a positive response from France 's President Mitterrand for his policy , which featured a proposed demilitarization in Bosnia-Hercegovina , observance of the UN peace plan for Croatia , restoration of links between the FRY and the other ex-Yugoslav republics , early elections , and restructuring the economic system as a market economy . |
| 28 | These included two of the incidents which were believed effectively to have triggered the civil war , namely the assassination in February 1975 in Sidon of a prominent left-wing politician , Maarouf Saad , and , two months later , the attack by armed Phalangists on a bus carrying Palestinians through the Beirut suburb of Ain Rumaneh [ see p. 27287 ] . |
| 29 | For Rome , the Old Testament had become increasingly incidental and the Mosaic Law superfluous ; Jesus was believed effectively to have abrogated the Mosaic Law . |
| 30 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |