Example sentences of "[vb pp] to have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A law which came into force on March 1 required all yakuza groups to register themselves with the local authorities as criminal organizations , so that they could be better supervised ; in practice , most were reported to have re-formed themselves as limited companies instead . |
| 2 | Only the Japanese — at 8,000 the largest single contingent in the initial force — were reported to have conducted themselves in an honourable fashion . |
| 3 | He is reported to have invited himself to lunch with the Mayor of Bodmin , but firstly asked his worship for a gallows to be erected for a hanging . |
| 4 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 5 | She also hinted that the package may include a loosening of the benefit rules so that the long-term unemployed may take education or training courses to prepare for new jobs without being deemed to have made themselves unavailable for work . |
| 6 | Under the rules he was deemed to have disqualified himself . |
| 7 | For the purposes of 4 above the settlor shall not be deemed to have divested himself absolutely of any property if that property or any income therefrom or any property directly or indirectly representing the proceeds of or the income from that property or any income therefrom is or will , or may , become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor in any circumstances whatsoever ( TA 1988 , s685(1) ) . |
| 8 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 9 | This foolish lad was said to have gorged himself on an entire goose one Christmas Eve and , upon staggering home , was robbed and murdered . |
| 10 | So long as such men as Willaert , Verdelot , and Arcadelt held posts in Venice , Florence , and Rome that is , until the mid-century or after Italian music can not be said to have emancipated itself from northern tutelage . |
| 11 | In that time , Mr Hurd can not be said to have stirred himself . |
| 12 | Errors of fact or law will have to stand , provided the expert can be said to have asked himself " the right question " . |
| 13 | There was talk of one independent dealer losing £50,000 yesterday alone ; another was said to have found himself £150,000 out of pocket over the week . |
| 14 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 15 | Snow Queen : Winter-sports fan Queen Sirikit of Thailand is said to have modelled herself on our own Elizabeth II |
| 16 | In all the chain there are less than ten square kilometres left of glacier , or about a fortieth of what there is in the Alps , though , after many years of shrinkage , the Pyrenean ice-fields are said to have spread themselves a little since 1950 . |
| 17 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 18 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 19 | He did not accomplish much , beyond making it clear to the owners that , in return for their agreement to a national minimum , he would abandon Samuel and give them the eight-hour day ; but he was thought to have acquitted himself well . |
| 20 | By 1987 the INLA was thought to have destroyed itself , but some of the fragments joined disillusioned Provisionals to form the Irish People 's Liberation Organisation . |
| 21 | Blackadder felt that he had somehow betrayed Randolph Henry Ash , though he might more justly have been thought to have betrayed himself ; his grandfather , or possibly Dr Leavis . |
| 22 | The attempt on his life , in which he is understood to have injected himself with a drug overdose , was his third since his arrest . |
| 23 | The Committee held four meetings , and after hearing charges which had been formulated by the Professional Conduct Committee under Byelaw 5 , reprimanded two members who were found to have misconducted themselves and expelled two others from membership . |
| 24 | Access to Pharaoh : Ramesses II is known to have made himself available even to ordinary petitioners ( compare 5:15ff . ) . |
| 25 | Spiro , who also worked for the CIA , is believed to have killed himself after murdering wife Gail , 41 , and children Sarah , 16 , Adam , 14 and Deanna , 11 , at their California home . |
| 26 | The weed , caulerpa taxifolia , is believed to have established itself in 1984 , when tropical fish aquariums in a Monaco museum were emptied into the sea . |
| 27 | Shaken to have found herself so suddenly envious of Liz 's happy home life , and startled to realise that no amount of money could create these comfortable surroundings , Laura was jerked back to reality by the sound of Ross 's voice . |
| 28 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 29 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 30 | She always would have liked to have let herself be happy . |