Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have required an enormously creative imagination to have foreseen the kinds of jobs that the children and grandchildren of those farmworkers would now be engaged in . |
| 2 | ‘ It will not be satisfactory to have marched a lot of money up the hill , only to march it down again . |
| 3 | A committee of shaikhs representing Yemen 's highly armed traditional leaders was reported to have given a warning on Dec. 15 that the tribes would intervene unless order was restored . |
| 4 | One of those charged was George Finbar O'Doherty , who was alleged to have given a command in Irish to the colour party . |
| 5 | To the man on whose support he would now increasingly depend , he wrote a little before the end , ‘ It is not pleasant , Thomas Poole ! to have worked 14 weeks for nothing — for nothing — nay — to have given the Public in addition to that toil five & 40 pounds ! ’ |
| 6 | Although only fragments remain , Dunseverick manages not to be outdone in the legend stakes ; Conal Caernach who lived here is said to have witnessed the crucifixion of Christ while serving in the Roman army . |
| 7 | Mr Genscher , who appears to have arranged the solution in talks with his East German , Czechoslovak and Polish counterparts in the United Nations , said his trip to Prague was the most moving of his career . |
| 8 | It is in the battle scenes that the new film differs most from Olivier 's prototype , and Branagh can fairly claim to have stripped the veneer of jingoism from the play , by showing war in its true horror . |
| 9 | Cyngen ap Cadell , king of Powys in the mid-ninth century , erected a monument , Eliseg 's Pillar , to his great-grandfather , Eliseg , who is said to have annexed the inheritance of Powys from the power of the Angles . |
| 10 | You do n't want all the wedding party to have heard the speech in advance of the wedding . |
| 11 | In the one such study reported , 91 women who had had a hysterectomy were more likely than age matched controls to report infrequent defecation and to have consulted a doctor for constipation . |
| 12 | Horticulturists appear to have joined the legion of defectors from the practice of assuming that their customers or clients are all dedicated part-time classicists , with comprehensive dictionaries at their elbows . |
| 13 | Those whose interests were prejudiced by the events of 787 are likely to have joined the ranks of Offa 's enemies , and it was later believed that Archbishop Jaenberht even plotted with Charlemagne against Offa to guarantee him free entry into Kent if he should invade . |
| 14 | Léger appears to have joined the circle at Mercereau 's later in the same year , probably introduced by Delaunay with whom he was becoming very friendly at this period . |
| 15 | In the tradition of Wilfrid , he seems to have taught the men of Lewes and Bramber how to fish ( they must have been very forgetful ) , or at least blessed their nets . |
| 16 | He never married , though he is understood to have received a number of proposals . |
| 17 | This case rested , as did the Harms Commission , on the credibility of former police Captain Dirk Coetzee , who claimed to have received the poison from Neethling [ for his allegations , first published in November 1989 , see p. 37033 ] . |
| 18 | An Abkhaz nationalist grouping , Ayglara ( Unity ) , had been formed , and the Abkhaz party secretary ( dismissed in early April ) was reported to have favoured the idea of secession . |
| 19 | The rival claims of the two departments never became a contentious matter among the ‘ boy labour ’ group of reformers , though the majority appear to have favoured the Board of Trade . |
| 20 | The Duke , like many Englishmen of his time , seems to have regarded the whole of Scotland with almost pathological aversion . |
| 21 | The male nurse , who is not being named , is alleged to have committed the crime at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral . |
| 22 | In Estonia and Latvia , pro-independence candidates seem to have won a majority of seats in the republics ' parliaments even in the first round of the local elections on March 18th . |
| 23 | In the simultaneous elections for 300 municipalities the UCN and PDCG were reported to have won the majority of mayorships . |
| 24 | Paul , 36 , said he was proud to have won the title against guards from across the UK and Eire . |
| 25 | He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off . |
| 26 | President Bush was said to have addressed an appeal to Mengistu in April and to Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka on May 21 concerning the Ethiopian Jews , and press reports focused on the role of US envoy Rudy Boschwitz . |
| 27 | THERE was no particular reason to have expected the creator of Asterix , the cuddly but cute Gallic mini-hero , or Obelix , the hefty menhir delivery-man , to be anything like his cartoon characters . |
| 28 | Alcester appears to have contained a number of buildings of quality , both inside and outside the fortifications . |
| 29 | ( Marco Polo is known to have carried a number of goldfish with him in case his lodestone ever broke down . |
| 30 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani 's moderation in foreign policy seems to have carried the day in Iran ; hardliners are vociferous in parliament and elsewhere ( the Islamic Republic allows more debate than the shah ever countenanced ) , but they are out of power . |