Example sentences of "to have [be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a change in the approach of local government to compulsory competitive tendering , but it appears to have been lost on the Labour party . |
| 2 | An English Requiem is centred around one of the finest works to have been written in the past ten years . |
| 3 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 4 | When they finally appear , they turn out — in what for this play amounts to a considerable comic twist — to have been fitted with the wrong plug . |
| 5 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 6 | Thus the data for this e.p.s.p. are very unlikely to have been generated from the smooth distribution , but are more typical of samples drawn from the quantal simple binomial generator . |
| 7 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 8 | That principle now seems to have been conceded despite the stiff resistance of Bloomberg 's biggest opponent — the Nihon Keizai Shimbun , Japan 's main financial newspaper . |
| 9 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 10 | Despite her questionable health , Leapor seems not to have been troubled by the physical demands of her work . |
| 11 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 12 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 13 | Seven million dolphins are estimated to have been killed in the eastern tropical area of the Pacific since the 1950s . |
| 14 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 15 | This latter finding implies that the hypocholesterolaemia is unlikely to have been caused by the metabolic effect of an occult tumour . |
| 16 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 17 | The first published tensile tests seem to have been done by the French philosopher and musician Marin Mersenne ( 1588–1648 ) who was interested in the strength of the wires used in musical instruments . |
| 18 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 19 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 20 | Military commanders were reluctant to lose the momentum of their campaign against the rebels , who they judged to have been weakened by the Indian authorities ' clamp-down on their organization in Tamil Nadu state [ see also p. 37964 ] . |
| 21 | On a range of issues from river pollution to waste incineration at sea , from airport expansion to noxious exhaust emissions , the opposition seems to have been led by the non-British north-west Europeans , with the Germans to the fore . |
| 22 | He is said to have been deprived of the royal household and nobles with the counsel and consent of all his people , and to have fled from Bamburgh with only a few companions , which would suggest an almost outright rejection . |
| 23 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 24 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 25 | The film appears to have been shot with the favoured European approach to sound — filming it silent and post-dubbing all the dialogue . |
| 26 | Paulinus of Pella provides an unusual example of a member of the senatorial aristocracy known to have been bankrupted by the barbarian invasions . |
| 27 | The brick wall faced by virtually all suppliers attempting to win modernisation contracts for city telephone exchanges in the larger cities of the Russian Federation seems to have been breached by the Slovenian firm IskraTEL . |
| 28 | The Berlin Wall is not the only boundary to have been breached in the past seven weeks , and who can say where the process will end ? |
| 29 | In this connection , she was reported to have been co-opted to the Judicial Studies Board . |
| 30 | Tam Dalyell 's thoughts on the need for lead in petrol ( Forum , 31 March , p 908 ) seem to have been shaped by the glossy publications of a lead alkyl manufacturer . |