Example sentences of "[adv] to have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 2 | Here Ipswich were unquestionably the better side , but Southend 's football was skilled enough to have beaten most teams in the Second Division . |
| 3 | Death happened — they were old enough to have acknowledged that . |
| 4 | Britain and America are worried enough to have produced enough serum to immunise their troops against anthrax , one of the biological agents he is most likely to have . |
| 5 | Any elderly crone , who happened to be ugly or misshapen enough to have repelled all potential husbands , and who was therefore forced to live a solitary life with no children of her own , often as an outcast on the edge of the village , was desperately in need of companionship . |
| 6 | Scriabin 's First Symphony is a cyclic , tautly structured work than can well manage without being manoeuvred towards the sound world of the Poem of Ecstasy , and Segerstam would have done better to have had more of an ear for pacing and projection than is evident here . |
| 7 | The direct action , by a well-organised union of skilled workers , seems sufficiently to have deterred most clothiers in Wiltshire from introducing machinery for around twenty years . |
| 8 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 9 | In some respects , he is the last major social theorist directly to have confronted this issue in its own terms , despite the fact that this same quantitative rise in material culture has continued , and appears set to continue , at a most extraordinary rate . |
| 10 | Yet it seems quite certain that our direct ancestors were walking around on two feet with an upright posture like our own at least four million years ago and no creature in the non-human line of descent seems ever to have done that . |
| 11 | The historians Ephorus and Timaeus , who in the fourth and third centuries B.C. were the first to collect extensive information about Gaul and Spain , do not seem ever to have visited these countries . |
| 12 | It is the fervent hope of most Celtic supporters that Rangers are eliminated from Europe , of course , so that their team retains the distinction of being the only one from Scotland ever to have won that trophy , albeit 26 years ago . |
| 13 | He is one of the two architects ever to have held this position twice , but this may have been more in recognition of his wealth and status as an MP , and for his interest in the organization of the profession , than for his abilities as an architect . |
| 14 | No one else seems ever to have encountered such a sight and I have had difficulty convincing friends of the truth of my tale . |
| 15 | Two-thirds , however , claim also to have made much use of information routinely available and to have collected information especially for the purpose of the review . |
| 16 | The Americans seem now to have taken this aboard . |
| 17 | We seem now to have exhausted all possible answers to our question . |
| 18 | and the money for your daughter in the future so do you feel that it 's been of some benefit to you today to have had this discussion ? |
| 19 | The idea of mixing social and competitive tennis seems again to have attracted many of the UK 's top companies . ’ |
| 20 | This assumption rests largely on the observation of high susceptibility to non-insulin dependent diabetes in populations known historically to have experienced such episodes . |
| 21 | The only scholar as yet to have followed this scent is Tom Paulin in his Thomas Hardy ; The Poetry of Perception ( Totowa , New Jersey , 1975 ) . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , the court seems never to have decided this ‘ territoriality ’ question in relation to the predecessor sections in the earlier Acts , such as sections 42 and 44 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 , section 320 of the Companies Act 1948 and section 172 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |