Example sentences of "[verb] to have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 2 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 3 | There are five million people out of work and in 1995 this figure is expected to have risen to six and a half million . |
| 4 | The Foreign Ministers signed an accord granting approximately US$53,000,000 in immediate EC aid ( which was expected to have risen to a total of approximately $147,000,000 by 1993 ) to help reactivate Central American trade as a means to strengthen the region 's current peace initiatives . |
| 5 | 1.2 Our terms of reference define attainment targets as : ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ and programmes of study as : ‘ describing the essential content which needs to be covered to enable pupils to reach or surpass the attainment targets ’ . |
| 6 | The Working Group 's terms of reference defined attainment targets as ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ . |
| 7 | For each key stage , programmes of study are to be drawn up specifying what pupils of different abilities are to be taught in each subject , and attainment targets set out specifying the knowledge , skills and understanding that they are expected to have acquired by the end of the stage . |
| 8 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 9 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 10 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 11 | In 1991 it is expected to have grow to £17 million and to double in 1992 . |
| 12 | Midfielders Jon Gautrey and John Roche are both expected to have recovered from injuries suffered last weekend , although they may not be risked in view of next week 's F.A . |
| 13 | The bones of the arm had for the most part fused but fusion had not yet taken place between the radius and ulna , which would be expected to have occurred by the age of twenty-one . |
| 14 | As was said by Staughton LJ in United Bank of Kuwait Ltd v Hammond [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 1051 , advising that older judicial authorities should be treated with a degree of caution : the work that solicitors do can be expected to have changed since 1888 ; it has changed in recent times and is changing now . |
| 15 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 16 | This is expected to have doubled by the end of 1990 . |
| 17 | But that was when women still expected to have to fight for their rights . |
| 18 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 19 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 20 | An official closure date for the yard has not been announced , but the majority of the 500 workers are expected to have left towards the end of July , with the bulk going after this month 's commissioning ceremony . |
| 21 | Jan. 7 President 's family reported to have escaped to Abu Dhabi . |
| 22 | A Royal Navy spokesman said : ‘ They appear to have gone off course and were about five miles from shore . ’ |
| 23 | A few of the clauses in the Declaration appear to have referred to what could only be Whig grievances . |
| 24 | Forty of the escapees were killed by local hunters but the remainder appear to have survived by hiding in inaccessible rocky areas and adapted to the local terrain , which is similar to their natural habitat in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 25 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 26 | Both main parties appear to have fallen for the rhetoric about the rising tide of crime among the young despite statistical evidence which plainly suggests that the problem has declined in recent years . |
| 27 | The Inspirals appear to have fallen into a crack in the US market . |
| 28 | Besides the meetings at Mercereau 's and the Closerie , the painters began meeting regularly at Le Fauconnier 's studio in the rue Visconti as well , where during the closing months of the year they watched with interest the development through successive stages of his Abondance , a painting that all appear to have regarded as an important , revolutionary work . |
| 29 | The fact that the tropics appear to have remained at approximately the present temperature despite major changed in the Equator-to-pole temperature difference ( and the associated heat flux out of the tropics ) strongly suggests the presence of some stabilizing mechanism for the tropics . |
| 30 | AD 160 across the courtyard building , after which it was not rebuilt although the baths appear to have remained in use . |