Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the collapse of the Taurus settlements system project , at massive cost , turns out only to have been the latest in a line . |
| 2 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 3 | Operation Desert Storm , by contrast , seems so far to have been supplied without a hitch — thanks to computers . |
| 4 | The law appears so far to have almost entirely failed to rise to the challenge of the vertical separation literature . |
| 5 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 6 | In the Inca state this process of regression seems not merely to have profoundly compromised the superego and to have replaced it with the person of the Inca and his fellow Children of the Sun , but also to have attacked the ego in general and to have reduced the Indians to an apathetic , dependent and passive state in which the higher ego-functions of decision-making , initiative , and individuality were markedly reduced . |
| 7 | Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states . |
| 8 | The Countess of Huntingdon 's Methodist Connexion , founded in the mid-18th century , was yet another Calvinistic organisation , we may note with interest ; what with Robert Titford being baptised at one of their chapels , and his sister Elizabeth having been registered with the Zion congregation in Frome , Calvinism seems once again to have cast its shadow across the family , even into the 19th century . |
| 9 | This was remarkably precise and remarkably misleading and seems once again to have been based essentially on Chinese communist capability . |
| 10 | She appears also however to have had in mind the entry to the trade of unequivocally middle-class girls , arguing that " the most cultivated class of women could become proof-readers ( which was almost like " working in publishing " ) . |
| 11 | While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period . |
| 12 | It seems almost wholly to have been the brain child of Gordon Thomas , appointed engineer to the Grand Junction Canal in 1894 and son of Hubert Thomas , general manager and clerk to the Grand Junction . |
| 13 | But they still received some protection from folk like the English kings who found profit in them , and especially from William Rufus , who seems quite sincerely to have disliked the Church 's intolerance ; and the Church itself strongly condemned violent persecution . |
| 14 | Marcel Proust was born in Paris , on the tenth of July , eighteen seventy-one , two months after the collapse of the Commune. erm His father was a well-known doctor , who seems curiously enough to have failed markedly to understand the causes of his son 's lifelong illness erm and his mother was the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker . |
| 15 | On one issue — the nature of the orcs — Tolkien seems very nearly to have arrived at a solution without quite being able to grasp it , a sign , perhaps , of exhaustion . |
| 16 | Once the notion of trust had become divorced from that of dependence on a testamentary heir ( which seems very soon to have happened ) , the way was open to set up trusts charged on beneficiaries under the will other than the heir , or even on persons who benefited where there was no will at all . |