Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , one needs to have walked these roads oneself if one is to locate ‘ the inn low by the river 's edge ’ . |
| 2 | Tie Rack opened nine stores and closed four in the first half , and plans to have opened another 14 by the year-end , of which at least five will be in the UK . |
| 3 | The Court concluded , rightly it is submitted , that the mere fact that the defendant happens to have committed another offence in addition to the one with which he has been charged should not preclude a conviction . |
| 4 | No one appears to have recognized any difficulties with that . |
| 5 | However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party . |
| 6 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 7 | The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive . |
| 8 | Here a combination of favourable ecological and economic conditions , at a particular historical moment , appears to have made this achievement possible . |
| 9 | This proposal aroused very considerable opposition from many of the institutions concerned and NAB itself made a reasoned case for some amendment , which appears to have made some impact . |
| 10 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 11 | Tom Patey appears to have soloed this first ascent on the buttress — of the area . |
| 12 | Multi-faceted influences have also clearly been poured into the Glebov melting pot , although he appears to have assimilated these with rather greater surety than Smolsky , who is very much the stylistic chameleon in comparison . |
| 13 | Above all , where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers . |
| 14 | Where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers . |
| 15 | No-one appears to have questioned this claim , examined the data , or checked whether any experiment had even been done . |
| 16 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 17 | He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression . |
| 18 | The phenomenon , which disrupts climatic conditions across the globe , normally appears every three or four years , but the latest El Niño , thought to have ended last summer , appears to have revived this spring , to the surprise of researchers who successfully predicted previous occurrences . |
| 19 | It does look , after all , as if respectability posed the greatest of all threats to the survival of Nonconformity ; the son and grandson of Baptist believers as he was , cousin to a family of ardent devotees of the Worship Street Chapel , William Charles appears to have paid little more than passing lip-service to the cause . |
| 20 | Which is that Quinn appears to have established some kind of wary empathy with this animal Zack . |
| 21 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 22 | Our problem is that while Mrs Iverson appears to have ingested that from which she died at the dinner party there is no dish from which some or all the guests did not share . ’ |
| 23 | The later case of R. v. Felixstowe Justices , ex parte Leigh appears to have clarified this point , and the position now is that standing is related to the applicant 's interest in the case and not to the remedy sought . |
| 24 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 25 | Israel appears to have shared many of the techniques and conceptions of sacrifice of her neighbours , but her own observances were set firmly in the framework of God 's revelation at Sinai . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock appears to have learnt all the answers to all the questions . |
| 27 | The US in the first half of the 1980s appears to have had such a mechanism whereas in the UK the real wages of employees did not respond flexibly to high unemployment by falling . |
| 28 | The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people . |
| 29 | However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths . |
| 30 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |