Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such flexibility was easier to foster given a basic consensus amongst the staff . |
| 2 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 3 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
| 4 | But now a paper in The Lancet ( 341 , 889 ; 1993 appears to some to have thrown a spanner in the works : certainly it has caused a furore of misinterpretation by newspapers and others . |
| 5 | Busti , who completed the reliefs in the early sixteenth-century , was known as Il Bambaia , another to have acquired a curiously Milanese nickname . |
| 6 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 7 | To those brought up on E. alpinum , the viciously prickly glaucous sea holly , E. eburneum is novel if not a revelation and surprisingly easy to grow given a deep well-drained soil in sun . |
| 8 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 9 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 10 | If so , it would have been splendid to have seen a small blue Ford Anglia spluttering along the road as I descended , with a tiny white face peering from a condensation-covered back window . |
| 11 | It was a new experience for her to want to open up to someone , especially a man ; but another part of her was relieved to have found a kindred spirit she could confide in . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm relieved to have got a run into Mukddaam , ’ Hern said . |
| 13 | The US administration was reported on Nov. 10 to have begun a diplomatic campaign to discourage major industrial countries from exporting militarily useful technologies to Iran . |
| 14 | The library is fortunate to have acquired a text book concerned with the details of a ) perfusing the tissues with agents to minimize freezing injury and b ) transporting to minimize the interruption of circulation and respiration after cardiac and respiratory arrest . |
| 15 | She was a sweet-natured girl of a placid disposition , and considered herself fortunate to have found a suitor . |
| 16 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 17 | We waited patiently to see how the new Council would emerge , and we are now delighted to have established a Partnership Plan between ourselves and CCW . |
| 18 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |
| 19 | She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps she 's his paramour , ’ said Julia , delighted to have found a use for the word . |
| 21 | He dosed it up , obviously delighted to have found a reasonable explanation . |
| 22 | ( Meanwhile , Mitsotakis was reported on June 26 to have rejected a proposal from Milosevic for a " Yugoslav-Greek confederation " . ) |
| 23 | I note in particular the first meeting of the National Committee which I was glad to see made a good start . |
| 24 | ‘ It will not be satisfactory to have marched a lot of money up the hill , only to march it down again . |
| 25 | We are lucky to have secured a reliable supply of crosswords and will try to include a crossword in every other Journal — starting with this one : turn to page 17 |
| 26 | ‘ Vinny should count himself very , very lucky to have made a lot of money out of football without having any ability . |
| 27 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 28 | We must of course make full allowance for the disappearance of the most important historical sources of the third century B.C. Hieronymus of Cardia is likely to have given a precise account of the Celtic events of 280–275 B.C. Later Phylarchus continued the story . |
| 29 | Pollution is likely to have played a key role in the mass die-offs of seals , dolphins and fish and other natural disasters in recent years , she claimed . |
| 30 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |