Example sentences of "[adv] to have [vb pp] a [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 ) .
8 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 !
9 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 .
10 Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme .
11 He appears not to have had a ready answer to this question !
12 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 .
13 Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole can be seen once again to have had a dramatic effect on the outcome of this particular question , with over three-quarters of the 55% who answered negatively being sole practitioners .
17 Nineteen of the 25 children were reported never to have established a regular sleep pattern , and 22 were classified as having severe sleep problems .
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