Example sentences of "be [adj] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ I am grateful to have found a man of such sincerity in your position . |
| 2 | It would have been impossible to have brought an airliner into the gallery — they must remain at the Museum 's ‘ out-station ’ at Wroughton , Wilts , but the next best thing was achieved . |
| 3 | And they 're supposed to have improved a lot through pressure . |
| 4 | When dawn comes , some individuals will have been unlucky and return completely empty , while those individuals that have managed to find a victim are likely to have sucked a surplus of blood . |
| 5 | Girish Naik , UK marketing manager for business communications with DEC , says that Ericsson 's use of HostBridge illustrates a requirement typical of many large organisations , which are likely to have acquired a mishmash of software and hardware over the years . |
| 6 | It is also an immensely difficult decision for the doctor , who will have established over time a relationship of confidence with all but the most severely unfit of his patients ( who anyway are unlikely to have expressed a view ) , which confidence will be shattered if the patient 's request is ignored , thereby adding , if possible , to the unhappiness of the patient . |
| 7 | Let me tell you something , Mam : I 'd have been happy to have had a bastard and to have taken my chance on never being married . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry to have made a fuss ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm relieved to have got a run into Mukddaam , ’ Hern said . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't mind if the lads have a laugh at my expense , that 's all part of the dressing-room banter , but it does upset me that I 'm supposed to have had a row with the manager . |
| 11 | ‘ It will not be satisfactory to have marched a lot of money up the hill , only to march it down again . |
| 12 | But them I 'm lucky to have have a job really . |
| 13 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 14 | She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , being over-anxious has caused a barrier . |
| 16 | She did n't envy anyone really ; but it would have been nice to have had a father , or at least to be able to remember him , and no matter how often her mother spoke about him and told her what he was like , there was a sort of emptiness inside her , and she was beginning to think there always would be There was a day in September which her mother kept special to remember her father . |
| 17 | Squeezing the string works onto three generously filled discs makes good economic sense , though it is annoying to have to experience a break between the first and second movements of the Op. 67 Quartet . |
| 18 | The library is fortunate to have acquired a text book concerned with the details of a ) perfusing the tissues with agents to minimize freezing injury and b ) transporting to minimize the interruption of circulation and respiration after cardiac and respiratory arrest . |
| 19 | It is sad to have to make a living by grubbing around in the dirt of a national calamity . ’ |
| 20 | The German chancellor beset with the economic burdens of absorbing the old East Germany is delighted to have found an ally , John Major . |
| 21 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |
| 22 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 23 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 24 | Afterwards Churchill is supposed to have sent a note to the Marshal , thanking him for his hospitality and reminding him of the details of their verbal agreements of the night before the morning after . |
| 25 | During a visit to him there , Mary is supposed to have written a letter to Bothwell which , discovered later in a silver casket with some poems in French and a written agreement to marry Bothwell , pointed clearly to her complicity in a plot to murder her husband . |
| 26 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |
| 27 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 28 | And that 's after she 's supposed to have put a curse on him ! |
| 29 | Unless the reading teacher has a microcomputer at home with a lot of memory , he or she is unlikely to have seen an adventure game . |
| 30 | Slough , Berkshire-based T IS Ltd has launched a telephone call logging system aimed specifically at UK local authorities : dubbed Genesis MX , the system is claimed to produce cost centre recharge reports and time-to-answer reports in line with Citizen 's Charter recommendations ; personal computer-based , the product is also claimed to provide flexible recharge reports ( allowing for cross-billing of departments ) which can be linked to micro and mainframe systems for automatic accounting ; no word yet on list price , but T IS is also introducing a rental scheme for the system . |