Example sentences of "[vb infin] to have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |
| 2 | They do not cover the Mediterranean , where England does not appear to have played a substantial part in trade until at least after the accession of the Tudors . |
| 3 | We do not appear to have received the signed documents back from you yet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | True , Mr Taylor does now appear to have safeguarded the contractual rights of players who soon will be working in the new League for their old employers . |
| 6 | Sixteenth-century towns do not appear to have had a solid group of stable families in the same way as so many contemporary rural parishes . |
| 7 | ‘ The Budget does not appear to have had a positive effect on the attitudes of the consumer towards the market and investment . ’ |
| 8 | Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked . |
| 9 | I do not expect to have to remind a senior staff nurse that she should have more consideration for my dining-room staff ! ’ |
| 10 | If this occurs , the buyer can no longer claim to have suffered a total failure of consideration . |
| 11 | Unpredictably it is Cambridge that may claim to have played a major part in his developments . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Committee concluded that the broadcasters could legitimately claim to have made a praiseworthy attempt to deliver the sort of programmes they had promised . |
| 14 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 15 | Although Darlington , and her partner of Middlesbrough , can not claim to have started the Indian connection , by 1860 her foundries were indelibly etched into the Railways for the Raj title especially locomotives , rolling stock , rails , bridges , station steelwork and coal . |
| 16 | I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her . |
| 17 | I must say , I was rather disappointed , for I would like to have discussed the bantering question with him . |
| 18 | For they would have to have escaped the very apparatuses which constitute subjects , and thus would not be subjects at all . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yes , I think we 'll have to have have a good look , yes it 's alright when you 've got a few things to get , but when when you 've got the whole list . |
| 21 | For the Tories to have any credibility as trustees of the environment they would have to have to change the whole basis of their philosophy . |
| 22 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 23 | I do not want to have to found a Royal College of Ships ' Surgeons to carry on practising my brand of general practice . |
| 24 | Yet all her precautions do not seem to have prevented the 26-year-old woman from abduction . |
| 25 | It might seem surprising , then , that Chancellor Kohl should seem to have accepted the French position , until one reflects for a moment on the implications . |
| 26 | The farmers and shepherds in the valleys may seem to have lived an isolated existence , if one thinks of Michael , but the wool from the sheep would be carded and spun in the cottages , and ultimately sent to the towns . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't seem to have made a brilliant start so far — getting lost and being late on my first day must be something of a record ! ’ |
| 28 | But Prestel does seem to have made a convincing case for its role in educational computing . |
| 29 | A notable exception to this was the adviser responsible for multicultural education who argued that since the school did not seem to have developed an overall policy for multicultural education he could not conduct an appraisal of it . |
| 30 | The peasant , says Lancaster , would thus seem to have paid a high price for protection from foreign invasion and for increasing immunity from epidemics : which probably represented the principal benefits derived from the French occupation . |