Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to be positive about her inability so far to have a child , Wendy says she tells herself that the whole experience has made her a stronger person . |
| 2 | Gas has also been tested from numerous wells in the southern North Sea but the only commercial discovery so far to have been made is the Scram field . |
| 3 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 4 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |
| 5 | Her twin must love Roman very much to have let Claudia know how worried she was about his reaction to her escapade with Garry . |
| 6 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 7 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 8 | There are many fisheries throughout the Indian sub-continent and the Sri Lankan operation is the only one in this area so far to have been carefully studied . |
| 9 | When I had been in the attic long enough to have tidied and cleaned the cupboards , and put a shine on the ancient chest of drawers and wardrobe , I settled to knit Jean-Claude sweaters and socks . |
| 10 | OXTON are in championship form with their recent run of success almost enough to have landed a Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition title . |
| 11 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 12 | The first consequence of the battle of Maserfelth was that Penda was left as sole king of the Mercians , without question the most powerful Mercian ruler so far to have emerged in the midlands . |
| 13 | Prince , she suggests , never leaves the recording studio long enough to have time for anything romantic like a candelit dinner or taking lady-friends to the movies . |
| 14 | Certainly England will not complain if they are confronted with Costa Rica , and 1950 is a sufficiently dim memory now not to have bad vibes about the United States . |
| 15 | Certainly England will not complain if they are confronted with Costa Rica , and 1950 is a sufficiently dim memory now not to have bad vibes about the United States . |