Example sentences of "[adv] to have [verb] [art] [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 | Few of us are lucky enough to have escaped the shattering sensation of pure terror generated by nightmares : the experience can haunt our every action for days afterwards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 5 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 6 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The court found that the pilot appeared to have confused the vertical speed instruments with the altitude indicator , and thus to have selected an inadequate altitude shortly before landing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Soccer legend Sir Stanley Matthews , one of the best players ever to have graced the English game . |
| 11 | SOME GENTLE arm-twisting from President Bush appeared yesterday to have persuaded the Angolan rebel leader , Jonas Savimbi , to accept a resumption of a ceasefire in the Angolan civil war , and to re-open the peace process with the Soviet-backed government in Luanda . |
| 12 | The one study on which this latter conclusion is based can not be generalized to demonstrate that there is a specific deterrent effect for all other corporate offences , and in any case , it should be treated very cautiously , not only because a single study can often be shown later to have missed the general condition , but also because it flies in the face of empirically grounded deterrence theory . |
| 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 | The quivering net of light from the river seemed now to have set the whole room trembling . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These included two of the incidents which were believed effectively to have triggered the civil war , namely the assassination in February 1975 in Sidon of a prominent left-wing politician , Maarouf Saad , and , two months later , the attack by armed Phalangists on a bus carrying Palestinians through the Beirut suburb of Ain Rumaneh [ see p. 27287 ] . |
| 18 | For Rome , the Old Testament had become increasingly incidental and the Mosaic Law superfluous ; Jesus was believed effectively to have abrogated the Mosaic Law . |
| 19 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |
| 20 | He seemed quite to have lost the preoccupied air that had troubled Hazel the night before . |
| 21 | Japan seems again to have become an honorary Westerner . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | First , at the time Jones had no idea what a storm was going to erupt about test-tube fusion and in notifying the DOE of his possible conflict of interest he was already being exceedingly conscientious and could , for example , have chosen instead to have remained an anonymous reviewer as far as the chemists were concerned . |
| 24 | Gómez , who was judged seriously to have weakened the conservative constituency by breaking from the PSC to form the MSN , had also proposed that cocaine be legalized internationally in order to undermine cartel power , and that the UN narcotics commission should directly intervene to produce a peace formula which would enable the cartel chiefs to surrender themselves . |
| 25 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 26 | Nineteen of the 25 children were reported never to have established a regular sleep pattern , and 22 were classified as having severe sleep problems . |