Example sentences of "to have [verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not claim to have undertaken a comprehensive content analysis of the literature , but it is very unusual to find systematic analysis of the ‘ state ’ as such in works on Japan written in English . |
| 2 | By the Spring of 1992 the IHM expects to have added a further six helicopters to the collection , including a Kaman HH–43 Huskie and at least two Russian types , bringing the total fleet list to over sixty rotary winged aircraft . |
| 3 | Today that strong man was shown to have dropped a massive political clanger . |
| 4 | To the purist it would seem regrettable to have included a modern 14-carat gold box by Cartier ( although decorated with a nineteenth-century mosaic ) as the last entry in this book . |
| 5 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme , the Daily Telegraph reports . |
| 6 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 7 | But you appear not to have noticed a few glaring facts like that women in general do n't rape men , or beat them up , or design weapons or make the laws and enforce them or hold enough jobs of influence and authority to make an iota of difference to the way this bloody patriarchal shit-heap is run . ’ |
| 8 | Riva seems to have undergone a total physical transformation — her hair is cropped short , and her long , full skirt is wrapped round her legs like a strange pair of baggy breeches . |
| 9 | If so , it would have been splendid to have seen a small blue Ford Anglia spluttering along the road as I descended , with a tiny white face peering from a condensation-covered back window . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me about this woman who claims to have seen a large blue car near the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 11 | The scandal , reportedly involving between Rs10,000 million ( US$420,000,000 ) and Rs23,000 million ( US$915,000,000 ) , was believed to have ruined an estimated 2,600,000 depositors . |
| 12 | Kuwait was thought to have made a major financial grant to the new Iraqi regime as an incentive to improve relations , which , whilst remaining peaceful during the 1960s , were nevertheless marred by a dispute centring on Iraq 's interest in Bubiyan and Warba . |
| 13 | Although I could not claim to have made a detailed ethnographic study of the school , the many visits enabled me to gain a fairly broad picture of its ‘ ethos ’ . |
| 14 | Bell Communications Research Inc , owned by the US Baby Bells , claims to have built an all-metal microelectronic storage device that could replace silicon transistors in memory chips . |
| 15 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 16 | Whatever the relative order of gesture , speech and structure thereof , my quasi-conceptual evolutionary thesis would still be pressing : iterable contribution to significant structure across the whole language , be it gestural or symbolic , is almost certain to have needed a shrewd intentional grasp by communicators of what they were up to . |
| 17 | It would be too much to expect convergent evolution to have produced a single thrifty genotype in all populations by chance , and the most likely situation is that several genes have been selected in different combinations , in different populations , to produce a phenotypically similar syndrome . |
| 18 | Editor , — Does the surgical senior registrar who seems to have performed an unnecessary internal examination under anaesthesia without consent before an appendicectomy realise how lucky he is not to have been charged with battery ? |
| 19 | On the whole , up to 1780 the group seems to have lost population , then to have shown a small net gain before a more general movement becomes clear after 1801 . |
| 20 | On Sunday West Germany had complained about the police presence around its embassy , and the slackening of restrictions is thought to have reflected an apparent Czechoslovak desire to remain as far as possible on good terms with both Germanies . |
| 21 | Diuretics seem to have had a better protective effect than β blockers . |
| 22 | Daytime and mixed day and night wetters have certain aetiological differences from night wetters , although there is much overlap : they are more likely to have had an adverse perinatal history , their bladder capacity tends to be smaller , and they are more likely to suffer urinary tract infection . |
| 23 | Mr Casey and the archbishop were judged to have followed a conservative catholic viewpoint and the |
| 24 | What bliss not to have to eat a huge fried breakfast to please a bacon-happy landlady ! |
| 25 | He expected to have to face an immediate follow-up attack , but nothing of the sort happened . |
| 26 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |
| 27 | Yet in May , the most august of all such journals , the Proceedings of the Royal Society , will carry a paper claiming to have identified a new evolutionary force . |
| 28 | Only Basel can claim to have maintained a strong international list of exhibitors . |
| 29 | An outbreak of cholera in the Zambian copper-belt town of Kitwe , first detected in late October , was reported on Nov. 10-11 to have killed an estimated 350 people [ see also p . |
| 30 | No parish seems to have achieved a full choral response . |