Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Which is that Quinn appears to have established some kind of wary empathy with this animal Zack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He appears to have had some sort of vision or dream , or perhaps both , in the precincts of a pagan temple to the Gallic Apollo , either in the Vosges region or near Autun . |
| 7 | He appears to have had some doubts about the establishment of the Protectorate , but accepted the reassurances of the Admiralty secretary , Robert Blackborne . |
| 8 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 9 | Gandhi seems to have felt some flicker of remorse about his treatment of the Sarabhai family ; at any rate , without confessing error , he preoccupied himself with working out rules for what might be termed the just fast . |
| 10 | The new art-form developed by Plato would not have existed without Socrates , who , in any case , seems to have felt some misgivings about the sufficiency of rationality himself . |
| 11 | As for the ruck/maul law , which seems to have excited some heated debate , we are quite clear as to how this should be refereed . |
| 12 | The introduction of Intercity 's Nightrider service seems to have caused some difficulty in the publicity department . |
| 13 | My hair seems to have lost some of its colour as I 've got older . |
| 14 | Kontrax Office Automation Plc and Kontrax Telecom Plc are 30% owned by the notorious Maxwell Group whose stake is currently being administered by Arthur Andersen — but Kontrax also seems to have borrowed some accounting techniques from Robert Maxwell . |
| 15 | This argument seems to have had some effect , for while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to look more closely at the dollar costs of overseas forces , the Defence Ministry 's view that no further cuts in forces should be sought was accepted . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it seems to have had some effect on Sandys . |
| 17 | For so much was untrue , and Margaret never doubted her sister 's integrity ; they really believed , poor things , that what they said was true , and Miss Ironside or whatever her name is seems to have had some grudge against her . |
| 18 | In common with the men of Qumran , with whom he seems to have had some links , John saw washing with water as merely a preparatory rite , while the great cleansing and the gift of the Spirit lay in the future ( I QS : 9–1 of and 4:21 ) . |
| 19 | In addition , Humphrys seems to have had some difficulty in adjusting to the fact that Afghanistan was no longer a dependency of British India . |
| 20 | Despite his obvious scientific expertise , the Board of Excise seems to have had some doubts and in 1845 instructed him and nine other officers to matriculate at University College London and attend classes in general and analytical chemistry . |
| 21 | The Trojan story is first recorded in Fredegar , and it seems to have had some vogue in seventh- and eighth-century Francia , where other Trojan legends were preserved . |
| 22 | Although the design lacked the copyism of Garling 's submission , it seems to have derived some elements from the Paris Hôtel de Ville , particularly the high-roofed central block and corner pavilions with their ornate single dormers . |
| 23 | In 1826 and 1827 it seems to have retained some trade union functions , including support for litigation on behalf of its members . |
| 24 | MIKE HOOPER hopes to have gained some consolation for last night 's defeat by Spartak Moscowa Premier League place . |
| 25 | To understand it , it helps to have had some experience of a bartering society . |
| 26 | Privately-held Neuron Data , which turned over $1.9m last December expects to have done some $20m in total by its year-end in March . |
| 27 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 28 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 29 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |