Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of HCIMA 's presentation to the Tourism Intergroup of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in November , the Association was invited to have direct representation on the board of management of the European Foundation for the Accredition of Hotelschools ( EFAH ) . |
| 2 | From Boppard you can easily helm your car to view not just panorama after wonderful river panorama , but to great sights such as the Loreley rock , form which a rogue mermaid was said to have lured sailors to their death . |
| 3 | The failure of the United Airlines bid deal was thought to have triggered the selling . |
| 4 | The ULIMO force was reported to have taken part in fighting in recent months to repel Taylor 's invading forces from Sierra Leone . |
| 5 | THE MAN with the bulbous nose and large gold pinky ring was determined to have his photograph taken with Congressman Jim Florio . |
| 6 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 7 | Even so , it is recorded that the President was considered to have been at best somewhat opportunistic in ‘ taking advantage of the favourable atmosphere ’ of the April 27th meeting ! |
| 8 | Despite Mahdi 's calls for unity and negotiation , his appointment as President was reported to have been rejected by other rebel groups , notably the SNM , as well as by factions within the USC . |
| 9 | ‘ what estate the defendant was contended to have ? |
| 10 | However , the defendant was found to have been contributorily negligent in pressing the wrong signal and his damages were reduced by 20% . |
| 11 | However , the typology was intended to have a more general relevance and provides a useful starting-point for this discussion . |
| 12 | McCullough said : ‘ At first , a trapped facial nerve was thought to have caused the numbness in my face . |
| 13 | The murder was said to have been masterminded by Fabio Ravalli . |
| 14 | Special spiked fences were erected , there was the Arsenal cage , and one club was rumoured to have an underground room in which unruly fans were handcuffed to iron rings let into the walls . |
| 15 | On Sunday 17 June in Cork a priest was reported to have preached and behaved as follows : |
| 16 | The programme was estimated to have cost around US$1,000 million per annum , a sum used for the upkeep of the two test atolls and for the funding of a support centre on Tahiti , 1,000 km to the west . |
| 17 | The programme was estimated to have cost around $1,000 million per annum . |
| 18 | The study was designed to have 80% power to detect a treatment response of 20% with a standard deviation ( derived from existing data ) of 30% , at significance level 0.05 . |
| 19 | A leading presidential aide was reported to have admitted that " irregularities " had occurred in some areas , which he attributed to " a political culture that is hard to eradicate " . |
| 20 | One of the leaders of the coup attempt was believed to have been the renegade colonel , Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , a close associate of Enrile , whom the Senator was accused of having harboured in his home on the day before the coup attempt . |
| 21 | The attempt was said to have been led by former Minister of Territorial Administration Maj. Lamine Diabira ; eight other officers were reported to have been arrested . |
| 22 | The fighting was said to have displaced one in 10 of the republic 's 5,000,000 population . |
| 23 | Fighting was reported to have moved to Osijek , the capital of Eastern Slavonia ( Serb region of Croatia ) , and its surrounding area . |
| 24 | Reports from rebel-held territory that some 1,000 civilians had been killed by government troops were strongly denied ; however the number of dead in fighting was thought to have reached several hundred . |
| 25 | The presence of Barrett 's oesophagus was found to have a significant positive association with transit time in supine position ( p=0.003 ) and a negative association with lower oesophageal sphincter pressure ( p=0.05 ) . |
| 26 | Dream incorporation was judged to have taken placed on about half the occasions . |
| 27 | For the ultimate cultic sacrifice and voluntary shedding of blood was seen to have been achieved in the figure of the male , circumcised , saviour Christ . |
| 28 | About 70,000 vehicles are alleged to have been so financed last year and , by December , this figure was said to have risen to 17,000 a month at $25,000 ( £14,200 ) per vehicle . |
| 29 | A PLEA put out for bone marrow donors when a schoolboy soccer fan was found to have leukaemia was answered by 750 would-be helpers . |
| 30 | The action was alleged to have been initiated around Jan. 22 , at about the same time as other Kuwaiti oil wells and storage tanks had been set alight in an apparent attempt to disrupt the allied air campaign . |