Example sentences of "to have [be] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | In this connection , she was reported to have been co-opted to the Judicial Studies Board . |
4 | The attempt then appears to have been transferred to the Daily Mail . |
5 | The attack was believed to have been linked to the second anniversary on Dec. 9 of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories . |
6 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |
7 | Nevertheless , the number of committed Jacobites in Parliament , although greater than at any other time in Anne 's reign , was still a small minority , and most Tories appear to have been committed to the Hanoverian Succession , though with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |
8 | In the 1930s , both Nicolae Ceauşescu and Elena Petrescu seem to have been introduced to the Communist Party by relatives who had already made their way to Bucharest from the country . |