Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
2 | She knew , however , that her mother could be relied upon to have fastened up the hens before coming up to the Oaks ' farm for the supper , so she settled her fears . |
3 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
4 | Indeed these officials are likely to have carried out the duties of assistant commissioner , resident magistrate , general arbitrator , tax-collector and market supervisor all rolled into one . |
5 | According to press reports the guerrillas claimed to have carried out the attack in support of a state-wide bandh ( political strike ) backing the implementation of the Mandal Commission report . |
6 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
7 | The crew of the Type 21 frigate HMS Avenger also claims to have shot down an Exocet with one . |
8 | The devil , or alternatively the giant , Wade , is supposed to have scooped out the hole during a quarrel with a neighbour , and thrown it at his adversary . |
9 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
10 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
11 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
12 | The largest landslide of all in the Alps , that of Flims in Switzerland , is calculated to have brought down a mass of three cubic miles of material . |
13 | He stumbled into the blackness and made his way to the wreckage , where Miller was meant to have found out the location of the Home Guard HQ . |
14 | A government communiqué was also reported to have ruled out the possibility of FARC and ELN delegates being allowed to sit in the new Constituent Assembly to be elected in December . |
15 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
16 | This was a memorandum that seemed to have taken on a life of its own : now here , now there , now one , now several , now alone , now gone , now lurking . |
17 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
18 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
19 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
20 | Incredibly , no one seems to have worked out the cost of the season as a whole . |
21 | Both derive from a deep sense of grievance and resentment against those Western powers led by the United States which are seen to have carved up the world for their own convenience . |
22 | ‘ It would have to have been a very strange accident , ’ he cut in grimly , ‘ to have singled out the contents of the security cupboard for its main target , would n't you agree ? ’ |