Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US in the first half of the 1980s appears to have had such a mechanism whereas in the UK the real wages of employees did not respond flexibly to high unemployment by falling . |
| 2 | The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people . |
| 3 | However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths . |
| 4 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 5 | The Church of Ireland appears to have had this in mind when it invited the well-known English Roman catholic marriage consultant , Dr Jack Dominian , to provide a report on divorce for the Church of Ireland General Synod . |
| 6 | As a result , there are a lot of out-of-work would-be finance directors willing to work for much much less than their previous salaries , not that that appears to have had any effect on those in stable positions . |
| 7 | None of the tribes to the north and west of this divide minted coins or appears to have had any contact with Rome in the pre-conquest period . |
| 8 | He appears to have had some sort of vision or dream , or perhaps both , in the precincts of a pagan temple to the Gallic Apollo , either in the Vosges region or near Autun . |
| 9 | He appears to have had some doubts about the establishment of the Protectorate , but accepted the reassurances of the Admiralty secretary , Robert Blackborne . |
| 10 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 11 | Viscount Eversley , who as Charles Shaw-Lefevre had just retired as Speaker , like the Duke of Buccleuch , appears to have had few qualifications to enable him to assess the competition and in the end , like the Duke , was not involved in the final outcome . |
| 12 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 13 | ‘ Your brother seems to have had little use for credit cards . ’ |
| 14 | Thereafter it seems to have had several changes of ownership . |
| 15 | By 1794 he seems to have had enough of undisciplined emotion and of the actions of Robespierre , Rousseau 's fervent disciple ; and therefore rushed to embrace a new philosophy of reason and nonviolence . |
| 16 | Dill , the ‘ boarded meeting place ’ , was one of the few Sussex hundreds that seems to have had any accommodation specially provided ; what effect the winter conditions had on the conducting of business can only be imagined . |
| 17 | This argument seems to have had some effect , for while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to look more closely at the dollar costs of overseas forces , the Defence Ministry 's view that no further cuts in forces should be sought was accepted . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it seems to have had some effect on Sandys . |
| 19 | For so much was untrue , and Margaret never doubted her sister 's integrity ; they really believed , poor things , that what they said was true , and Miss Ironside or whatever her name is seems to have had some grudge against her . |
| 20 | In common with the men of Qumran , with whom he seems to have had some links , John saw washing with water as merely a preparatory rite , while the great cleansing and the gift of the Spirit lay in the future ( I QS : 9–1 of and 4:21 ) . |
| 21 | In addition , Humphrys seems to have had some difficulty in adjusting to the fact that Afghanistan was no longer a dependency of British India . |
| 22 | Despite his obvious scientific expertise , the Board of Excise seems to have had some doubts and in 1845 instructed him and nine other officers to matriculate at University College London and attend classes in general and analytical chemistry . |
| 23 | The Trojan story is first recorded in Fredegar , and it seems to have had some vogue in seventh- and eighth-century Francia , where other Trojan legends were preserved . |
| 24 | To understand it , it helps to have had some experience of a bartering society . |
| 25 | There is , then , no reason to believe Freemantle when she claims to have had little interest in poetry . |
| 26 | As , chairman of Dundas & wilson who claims to have had little problem in providing other specialist services to clients , small and large , the exercise becomes on of ‘ not cross-selling but cross-advising ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ For a woman who claims to have had little to do with my countrymen , ’ Nicolo said coldly , ‘ you seem very well informed . ’ |