Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] to have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unpredictably it is Cambridge that may claim to have played a major part in his developments . |
| 2 | I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her . |
| 3 | Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge . |
| 4 | Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked . |
| 5 | I would like to have had a good first round match first . |
| 6 | ‘ Personally , I would liked to have done a little bit better in the Tests . |
| 7 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 8 | Only Basel can claim to have maintained a strong international list of exhibitors . |
| 9 | Yet I perceive there is still some way to go before voluntary and statutory bodies can claim to have made a serious break-through in mobilising action . |