Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 2 | Held up in a jam on , say , the M25 we curse the planners for not having the foresight to have built a five-lane motorway joining up to other five-lane motorways . |
| 3 | Taylor was the first to realize that , on linguistic grounds , Swahili-land should be studied as three regions ; he was the first to study in depth the phenomenon of aspiration in Swahili ; he was the first and ( with the exception of H. E. Lambert ) the only European to compose and publish Swahili poetry ; he is the only European to have caused a new genre to be introduced to Swahili poetry , ‘ mahadhi ya Tela ’ ( Taylor 's tune ) . |
| 4 | ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year … |
| 5 | Thus it was that the world took such note of Fleischmann and Pons ' claim to have found a novel approach . |
| 6 | The sites now considered to illustrate undefended settlements have been chosen at random since it would have required much research and fieldwork to have presented a comprehensive list in time for this Conference ; attention is merely drawn to a number of sites with the hope that they , and others like them may be studied in more detail by local efforts . |
| 7 | I think erm it 's interesting erm to listen to desert island discs the last two weeks that the luxury item chosen has been a piano and people are saying that they would like very often , there are a lot of people who 'd like the opportunity to have learnt a musical instrument . |
| 8 | On Oct. 13 Azerbaijan was reported on Russian radio to have offered a mutual withdrawal of forces from Karabakh and the stationing of observers to be provided by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 9 | Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title . |
| 10 | Today the Garrett manufacturing vase shows the company to have come a long way from the first detectors built on the garage bench . |
| 11 | Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , who claimed at the weekend to have uncovered a further £10 million in sweeteners above the £38 million disclosed last week , continued yesterday to press the Prime Minister for details of the tax benefits offered to BAe , and to explain why Parliament has been deceived for more than 16 months about the true cost of the sale . |