Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , in their programmes of records , of which there are many , it is common practice to have to endure several minutes of discussion on the item to be played . |
| 2 | The CC is greatly at fault to have ignored this . |
| 3 | Ackner , L. J. in the more recent case of A. Lambert Flat Management Ltd. v Lomas pointed out the need for the defendant to have encountered some ‘ special difficulty ’ preventing compliance with the nuisance order , such as illness , or non-receipt of the notice . |
| 4 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 5 | At last she said , ‘ I was a fool to have made that idiotic statement . |
| 6 | I 've begun to think more and more like this — it is terribly cruel of fate to have put these twenty years between us . |
| 7 | When I reply to debates , it is my custom to have heard all the speeches that have been made , so it is unfortunate that pressing circumstances outside the House have led me this evening to commit the grave discourtesy of not being in my place to hear as many speeches as I should have liked . |
| 8 | Dworkin himself suggests that no one has an individual right to have enforced all the laws of the nation , only those which he would have a right to have enacted if they were not already law . |
| 9 | It 's a shame to have to write that sort of thing into a contract , but you ca n't trust the buggers . ’ |
| 10 | Gleeson is the only other author to have documented this pattern of organ involvement . |
| 11 | Judging from his stock , funerals must have held some position of importance to have merited such an impressive display of hatchments . |
| 12 | Perhaps de Gaulle was enough of a pragmatist to have made those adjustments himself , had he remained in power . |
| 13 | His statement was considered to have gone sufficiently far towards an apology to have enraged many nationalists within his own party , without having satisfied those who demanded a clear-cut official apology as a key part of an acceptance of responsibility for initiating the Pacific War . |
| 14 | However , it goes against the grain to have to say this , as it is our land after all . |
| 15 | It was a very small wound to have caused such concern . |
| 16 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 17 | President Gorbachev claimed on Soviet television to have found many supporters of perestroika in SED . |
| 18 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 19 | ‘ In the early days of my partnership with Graeme Souness , the first-team squad might not have had sufficient strength in depth to have handled this kind of troubled build-up , ’ said Smith . |
| 20 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 21 | And of course , how absolutely typical of this man to have caused that accident last night ! |
| 22 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 23 | By April 19 The Times reported that the police had visited the offices of a number of Istanbul publishing houses and that printers had cancelled orders to print 18 periodicals deemed in the past to have shown some sympathy to the Kurdish cause . |
| 24 | Shorts is not the only firm to have supplied both sides . |
| 25 | It 's been a privilege to have done this and I 'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I 've encountered . |
| 26 | It has never , of course , been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand , but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence : the English landscape at its finest — such as I saw it this morning — possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations , however more superficially dramatic , inevitably fail to possess . |
| 27 | Neither gave an inch all afternoon simply because it would have been an insult to have done any differently . |
| 28 | Or as Engels meditated , ‘ Irish history shows one what a misfortune it is for a nation to have subjugated another nation . |
| 29 | He is the first Catholic to have held this office in the 103-year history of the county council . |
| 30 | They are the ones who have been long enough in the profession to have lost some of their naivety and to have mastered the art of teaching , whilst they have not been teachers long enough to have become demoralized and cynical . |