Example sentences of "to have [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GKR claim to have developed a uniquely effective research procedure , but it is such a closely-guarded secret that its uniqueness and efficacy is impossible to judge . |
| 2 | All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture . |
| 3 | In its location there , on the Atlantic coast of north-western Spain , it appears to have received a constantly renewed nourishment and impetus through the maritime trade routes from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 4 | Cotter seems to have enjoyed a fitfully co-operative relationship with Wilson until 1921 , when the NSFU seceded from the National Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 5 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 6 | But Morse appeared to have boarded a completely different train of thought : ‘ I was just wondering about their dates of birth … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You seem to have adopted a very cynical viewpoint , Matthew . ’ |
| 8 | During the night , it might have been useful to have adopted a more individualised approach . |
| 9 | That is why talks with GM are rumoured to have been more extensive than those with Ford , which appears to have adopted a more aggressive stance . |
| 10 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 11 | Otherwise members seem to have exhibited a fairly normal range of personality and most seem to have been socially well-adjusted despite the extremism of their anti-semitic views . |
| 12 | Governments appear to have drawn a purely tactical conclusion from the ERM 's ordeal : never underestimate the strength of the financial markets . |
| 13 | Subsequent research seems , in fact , to have shown a very weak relationship between recall ( however measured , which is a technically very complex question in itself ) and other measures of advertising effectiveness . |
| 14 | I seemed to have got a significantly better offer on this . |
| 15 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 16 | The Solihull booklet seems to have had a powerfully benign effect on the attitudes towards SSE of Solihull secondary teachers in general . |
| 17 | Nixon had tried to govern without congress and Ford had been pathetically inconsequential ; Carter , in his memoirs , claimed to have had a reasonably good relationship with the legislature , but this was not a widely shared view . |
| 18 | Even the Greatest himself , Cassius Clay , alias Muhammed Ali , who seemed to have had a highly successful career during which a minimal number of punches were landed to his head , has suffered a brain condition which it is difficult to believe is unconnected with his trade . |
| 19 | Virtually any Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau building can be assumed to have had a highly elaborate shopfront beneath . |
| 20 | This fact is of great importance , for it carries within it irrefutable evidence that whatever definition of ‘ god ’ is finally accepted , mankind must be , if not the sole architect of it , then at least to have had a very considerable influence on it . |
| 21 | Fourteen years later , Atkinson might claim , at best , to have had a very modest effect . |
| 22 | No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights . |
| 23 | San Gimignano is slightly apart from the other cities of Tuscany in that it seems to have had a relatively small element of hereditary feudal warriors among its citizens or in its contado . |
| 24 | Certainly , Supreme Court judges are likely to have had a much wider variety of governmental and legal experience than their counterparts in Britain where the rather narrow process of socialization into the law and recruitment process seems to ensure less variation . |
| 25 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 26 | Like Alciston and most other Sussex parishes it seems to have had a fairly prosperous time until the mid-fourteenth century ; the early over-large tax demands of the Norman overlords had been replaced by a much more balanced local appreciation of the revenue possibilities . |
| 27 | Equally importantly , those which were remembered appear to have been unusual in more than the fact that they were busier than other situations , risk appears to have had a quite separate effect . |
| 28 | When I tell him that Fairfax seems to have played a very big part in Claudia 's life , he does n't see any problem . |
| 29 | Others make more noise ; but he may prove to have played a more effective part . |
| 30 | The much maligned Constanze seems to have played a more dominant role in Mozart 's later life than many biographers have given her credit for . |