Example sentences of "[noun] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , in their programmes of records , of which there are many , it is common practice to have to endure several minutes of discussion on the item to be played . |
| 2 | The CC is greatly at fault to have ignored this . |
| 3 | Ackner , L. J. in the more recent case of A. Lambert Flat Management Ltd. v Lomas pointed out the need for the defendant to have encountered some ‘ special difficulty ’ preventing compliance with the nuisance order , such as illness , or non-receipt of the notice . |
| 4 | Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped . |
| 5 | One of the few companies to have had any serious success in selling generic products is Interactive Information Systems ( IIS ) who offer their customers the opportunity to lease the hardware needed to run the laser disc applications . |
| 6 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 7 | Shortly after this , Iraq decided to modify its position and was reported on 27 February to have accepted all the relevant UN resolutions unconditionally . |
| 8 | At last she said , ‘ I was a fool to have made that idiotic statement . |
| 9 | I 've begun to think more and more like this — it is terribly cruel of fate to have put these twenty years between us . |
| 10 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 11 | Although they are generally regarded as being tender , many gardeners in cold northern areas have reported these plants to have survived several recent winters without harm . |
| 12 | When I reply to debates , it is my custom to have heard all the speeches that have been made , so it is unfortunate that pressing circumstances outside the House have led me this evening to commit the grave discourtesy of not being in my place to hear as many speeches as I should have liked . |
| 13 | Dworkin himself suggests that no one has an individual right to have enforced all the laws of the nation , only those which he would have a right to have enacted if they were not already law . |
| 14 | It 's a shame to have to write that sort of thing into a contract , but you ca n't trust the buggers . ’ |
| 15 | Gleeson is the only other author to have documented this pattern of organ involvement . |
| 16 | Judging from his stock , funerals must have held some position of importance to have merited such an impressive display of hatchments . |
| 17 | Perhaps de Gaulle was enough of a pragmatist to have made those adjustments himself , had he remained in power . |
| 18 | His statement was considered to have gone sufficiently far towards an apology to have enraged many nationalists within his own party , without having satisfied those who demanded a clear-cut official apology as a key part of an acceptance of responsibility for initiating the Pacific War . |
| 19 | However , it goes against the grain to have to say this , as it is our land after all . |
| 20 | The budget gives them a get-out option but the CPL and Marjorie Roberts are grinning like Cheshire cats to have extracted such a promise . |
| 21 | It was a very small wound to have caused such concern . |
| 22 | New points in the revised announcement 47 from the OPB include additional stress on the need for trustees to have considered all the options and the application should demonstrate that this has been done ; that they had sought independent legal advice ‘ from lawyers who do not advise the company on such matters ’ ( the OPB does not regard another partner in the same firm as ‘ independent ’ ) and the OPB would find it ‘ helpful ’ to see copies of correspondence between them ; and specific details of the information sent to members which should be contained in the application . |
| 23 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 24 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm simply pointing out that there were better ways to have made this trip today . ’ |
| 26 | Sean must have driven home with dire tales to have brought such a gathering to the bus stop . |
| 27 | President Gorbachev claimed on Soviet television to have found many supporters of perestroika in SED . |
| 28 | Moreover , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that people who had ended up using bank loans were more likely than other borrowers to have considered some other forms of credit too — usually HP . |
| 29 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 30 | There are not many yews of this age left in Britain ; in fact if the tree is 2,000 years old it 'll be one of only about 40 trees in western Europe to have reached this age . |