Example sentences of "to have [verb] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They seem to have moved firstly to the coastal places of the west , and then inland along the river valleys — natural enough for groups who rowed across the North Sea and the Channel in open shallow-draught boats .
2 Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed .
3 This ended in the closure of the French Consulate in Canton , and a freeze on contracts to French companies — and the company 's ultimate ownership does not seem to have got through to the Chinese .
4 In general , DATEC courses seem to have got off to a reasonable start in the art colleges .
5 The School appears to have got off to a flourishing start .
6 Meanwhile , the company 's entry into the largely unchartered bagged sector with Strollers seems to have got off to a fair start .
7 Polar plants appear to have adapted positively to the long days , long nights , low light intensities and other special conditions ( Chapter 2 ) of their environment .
8 The shortage of walnut resulting from this winter combined with the heavy demand for walnut gunstocks during the War of the Spanish Succession appears to have led directly to the French ban on exports in 1720 .
9 And the observation , without further discussion , that the omission of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ is deliberate seems to have led directly to the erroneous conclusion that a supposed appropriation with the consent of the owner is one of the four ingredients which are required ( and which suffice ) to constitute theft .
10 The pious and happy deaths of good little boys and girls , with , for variety , the occasional frightful deaths of irreligious children who were assumed to have passed straight to the eternal fires of hell , are continually described and lingered over in children 's books of the eighteenth and nineteenth century , from Janeway onward .
11 He is the first of the so-called Marcos cronies to have stood up to the Presidential Commission on Good Government , and as a result is seen as a man of action .
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