Example sentences of "[adv] to have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it that this problem seems only to have emerged in the last few years . |
| 2 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 3 | I am concerned that your correspondent rang Climbline at 7.15pm only to have to listen to that day 's forecast . |
| 4 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 5 | Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction . |
| 6 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 7 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 8 | All we have are accounts , and in that part of the study our contrasting sources are those within the class and its social order , and those without , including , of course , the teacher unfortunate enough to have to tangle with the kids whose daily life-situation that classroom encompasses . |
| 9 | Only the grandmother was old enough to have lived in Palestine . |
| 10 | If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man , then wherever you go for the rest of your life , it stays with you , for Paris is a movable feast , Ernest Hemingway to a friend , 1950 . |
| 11 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |
| 12 | Since then I have also been fortunate enough to have played in ten Test Matches for England . ’ |
| 13 | So , we ca n't use the fact that Earth has life to conclude that life must be probable enough to have arisen on another planet . |
| 14 | She was not sensitive enough to have died in childbirth like the women in nineteenth-century novels . |
| 15 | So I do n't know if any of you are old enough to have worked in factories or have been in any in the services ? |
| 16 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |
| 17 | As I had suspected , we were the only folk rash enough to have booked into a cow shed for the night . |
| 18 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 19 | er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor . |
| 20 | Patients with the following characteristics were excluded : ( a ) women of childbearing age ; ( b ) patients with one or more of three established significant diabetic complications — namely , nephropathy with creatinine concentration >150 µmol/l ( proteinuria was not in itself an exclusion ) , ischaemia severe enough to have resulted in gangrene or amputation , and retinopathy worse than background in one eye . |
| 21 | My father protested but , as Mrs Clamp pointed out , it was quite enough to have to look after two invalids in the one house without having an infant needing constant care as well . |
| 22 | For one thing , she was n't cold-blooded enough to have capitalised on those moments . |
| 23 | By then hundreds of customer-nominated staff , lucky enough to have won in a quarterly draw , will have been presented with Ovations cheques which can be exchanged for a wide range of goods in a special catalogue . |
| 24 | Neurotic enough to have vanished of her own accord — or even to have got herself murdered . |
| 25 | As it turned out , she would have done better to have stayed on her pillow , for there she might have been found by Maud or Enid who would possibly have put two and two together at the curious sight of a cat and frog nestling on the same bed . |
| 26 | Better to have lain in the marshes of Halling than to end one 's time in a cardboard box in a steel locker with a fake ! |
| 27 | The so-called Stalker affair re-emerged throughout January 1990 following the collapse on Jan. 18 of fraud charges against Kevin Taylor , a Manchester businessman and alleged criminal with whom John Stalker , the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , was said to have associated and thus to have engaged in discreditable conduct . |
| 28 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 29 | This creature superficially resembled the modern amphioxus and had a bilobed head and pair of tentacles , as well as myotomes and a notochord which , unlike the amphioxus , appears not to have extended to the anterior . |
| 30 | Sometimes the question of what a public authority ought to have done in performance of its duties will be politically or morally contentious , and the court would prefer not to have to pronounce on the issue . |