Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] to have " in BNC.

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1 Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work .
2 This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times .
3 In 1985 , however , the Government specifically rejected calls for another inquiry like Lord Scarman 's , arguing that since the riots were a ‘ criminal enterprise ’ it was useless to search for social explanations or to have yet another report advising it about what to do .
4 Not that she read it ; it was just easier to bury her face in its glossy pages than to have to endure Nicolo 's stony-faced silence .
5 If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor .
6 Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) .
7 It is also expected to use the new 80Mbytes-per-second version of the Micro Channel and to have 16 slots against eight on the 950 .
8 Little is known of his activities there , but he seems to have resumed the preaching of similar views and to have been forced to leave the town .
9 It had been Exchange policy to allow only partnerships to come into membership , but in 1982 a a new rule was introduced which permitted members to become limited companies and to have an outside share ownership of up to 29.9% .
10 ‘ What an amazing man and to have him in your team is a real bonus , ’ he said .
11 The longer period of separation would have given time for the birds there to evolve as separate species and to have lost all connection with their original parent stock in India .
12 Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’
13 The best way to treat special damages is to deal with each item of special damage in a separate paragraph and to have a final paragraph totalling them all up and giving a global figure .
14 The focus of world attention on the region was also felt to have encouraged domestic pressure for political reform and to have influenced King Fahd 's November decision to revive plans , shelved since 1980 , for the creation of central and regional consultative councils .
15 Although these two types of margin are associated with distinct types of landscape , they may occur in close proximity owing to the tendency of transform faults to contain offset segments or to have a sinuous form rather than being purely straight ( Fig. 3.26 ) .
16 ‘ It was a little alarming ’ , I wrote , ‘ to think there was anyone so far above human weakness as to have none .
17 Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language .
18 To be awarded the Military Cross is a rare honour exemplyfying service to crown and a county and exemplifies a moment of persional bravery and to have that called into doubt is very shocking .
19 I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust .
20 From 1 September 1988 to 1 May 1991 , 194 consecutive patients were eligible for participation in the study and were invited to the outpatient clinic for an extra visit to answer a structured questionnaire and to have a cervical scrape taken for analysis for human papillomavirus .
21 by Sir Arthur Norman Chairman , WWF-UK To have influenced in one short lifetime fundamental changes in the attitude of hundreds of millions of fellow humans towards the natural world and to have seen his ideas take root and flourish all over the world , is surely the achievement of a very extraordinary and great man .
22 Quite apart from the leisurely beginnings and ends of terms , the examination time , unexpected holidays , and festivals , requests for children to parade or sing or help with community work , there are the apparently inevitable absences of teachers : the headmaster to collect salaries , the senior teachers to mark and supervise examinations or attend panels , the married ladies to nurse sick children or to have babies .
23 No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh .
24 Baker was reported to have spoken with Bufi about human and political rights and to have promised US$6,000,000 in immediate humanitarian aid .
25 In the one such study reported , 91 women who had had a hysterectomy were more likely than age matched controls to report infrequent defecation and to have consulted a doctor for constipation .
26 Each wing was to be of two storeys and providing two wards of twelve beds each with one of the ground floor wards to be reserved for mental cases and to have a padded room .
27 To have good point of contact , you have to have good footwork and to have good footwork you have to be very strong .
28 For all these purposes he needs not only to be a good lawyer but to have business acumen and an intimate knowledge of the problems of the trade or industry in question .
29 The right to legal advice and to have a person informed
30 Stavrogin ca n't , and in our definitive text does n't , claim to be a decent man or to have any other thing to be ; all his letter indicates is a deathlike mime or sleepwalk within behaviour patterns determined by upbringing , class , and kind .
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