Example sentences of "[vb infin] to have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.

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1 You do NOT need to have had any previous experience of working with mentally handicapped people as training is given , but you do have to be over the age of 21 .
2 Nor does it need any familiarity with the object ; that is , it does not need to have experienced those two views in association beforehand .
3 He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours .
4 If we can trust the figures which suggest that Christians tended to marry at a notably higher age than their pagan contemporaries , Christianity would appear to have reinforced these shifts towards marriage as a more personal and free partnership of equals .
5 Trafalgar House , for example ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) , does not appear to have breached any of the detailed requirements of the Companies Act or of accounting standards when it avoided putting £102.7m of write-downs through the p&l .
6 He also showed his face at some of the later Congresses , but he does not appear to have made any active contribution to any of them .
7 He did not appear to have noticed any extraordinary knowledge of Ash 's poetry in either Miss LaMotte or Miss Glover .
8 We do not appear to have received this year 's Statistics Form with details of your classes , and would be very grateful if you could send it back as soon as possible .
9 Most Western economies do not appear to have reached this position .
10 Even the United Nations Security Council , which has given thought and time to the plight of those troubled people , the Kurds , does not appear to have given any thought or time to the plight of the people in the south of Iraq , the Shia .
11 Justin , who would appear to have lost some of his old charisma , became the straight man of the act — always mending things .
12 The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective .
13 ‘ You do n't appear to have used this for some time . ’
14 It is your inheritance and your birthright , and although we may appear to have taken that from you , we have not really done so . ’
15 Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons .
16 The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) .
17 While the politics of the time may have been sterile , it does appear to have had more than its share of colourful characters ; bogus radicals like A.P.T.James and Chanka Maharaj ; the legendary and fabulously wealthy Bhadase Maraj , who was an American-style ward boss ; Norman Tang , whose mastery of the ‘ art ’ of inscrutability made it possible for him to ‘ develop the reputation of being the only minister never accused by the Civil Service of political interference ’ .
18 Despite their distinctive lifestyle , Puritans do not appear to have shared any distinctive social philosophy or consistent political outlook .
19 And , and I would expect to have completed that review by March .
20 The compensating disadvantage is that when conflict exists there will be more than one efficient solution , but at least we would expect to have excluded those non-preferred solutions which could never be optimal .
21 ISAAC ASIMOV , who has died in New York aged 72 , was best known for his works of science fiction , a genre in which he reigned supreme , but he could also claim to have written more books about more subjects than any other author .
22 ‘ I can hardly claim to have done that . ’
23 He himself did not claim to have originated many of his improvements , but his work is notable for the way in which many details of care and technique were combined to produce a dramatically improved outcome , and for the rigour with which he analysed his work .
24 Insofar as I can claim to have had any original scientific ideas , these have sometimes been misunderstandings , or misreadings , of other peoples ' ideas .
25 I 'd like to have seen that .
26 £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations .
27 I take this to mean that price leadership or parallel pricing are not in themselves regarded as anti-competitive : the firms would have to have followed some specifically anti-competitive course of conduct , for example exclusive dealing or discriminatory discounting , to fall foul of the law .
28 With regard to fees , earnings and profitability , the 1982 reforms do seem to have exerted some , albeit limited , downward pressure .
29 Although at first sight the quotations reproduced above may seem to have said all that needs to be said , it will be worthwhile trying to specify exactly the mechanisms by which associative mediation theory generates the effects that need to be explained .
30 ‘ We do n't seem to have seen much of each other since … since the snows , Carrie . ’
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