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

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1 But what do you think has made this one so special the By Request C D and video and everything ?
2 We are delighted to report that the ensuing debate we helped stimulate has transformed this orthodoxy into a vision now worthy of positive support .
3 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 .
4 Nor does it need any familiarity with the object ; that is , it does not need to have experienced those two views in association beforehand .
5 I do hope I will not need to have to have any fillings .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He did not appear to have noticed any extraordinary knowledge of Ash 's poetry in either Miss LaMotte or Miss Glover .
11 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 .
12 Most Western economies do not appear to have reached this position .
13 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 .
14 Justin , who would appear to have lost some of his old charisma , became the straight man of the act — always mending things .
15 The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective .
16 ‘ You do n't appear to have used this for some time . ’
17 It is your inheritance and your birthright , and although we may appear to have taken that from you , we have not really done so . ’
18 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 .
19 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 ) .
20 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 ’ .
21 Despite their distinctive lifestyle , Puritans do not appear to have shared any distinctive social philosophy or consistent political outlook .
22 Moreover , since the use of thrombolytic agents and aspirin in patients with myocardial infarction improves short and long term survival we would expect to have to give any additional treatment for a longer period to a larger number of patients to show a further reduction in mortality .
23 And , and I would expect to have completed that review by March .
24 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 .
25 She could smell the chemical effluent off the agricultural land : she could n't remember having noticed that stench before .
26 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 .
27 ‘ I can hardly claim to have done that . ’
28 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 .
29 Insofar as I can claim to have had any original scientific ideas , these have sometimes been misunderstandings , or misreadings , of other peoples ' ideas .
30 I 'd like to have seen that .
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