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 | Today that strong man was shown to have dropped a massive political clanger . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me about this woman who claims to have seen a large blue car near the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Casey and the archbishop were judged to have followed a conservative catholic viewpoint and the |
| 14 | What bliss not to have to eat a huge fried breakfast to please a bacon-happy landlady ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Only Basel can claim to have maintained a strong international list of exhibitors . |
| 18 | No parish seems to have achieved a full choral response . |
| 19 | INVESTIGATORS hunting the Darlington man alleged to have managed a nationwide counterfeit video business were told he had committed suicide . |
| 20 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |