Example sentences of "[verb] have [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The attention these centres have attracted has made the illegal trade in baby orangs hard , if not impossible .
2 Since there has been no important relaxation of the qualifying conditions over the years , it is more than likely that social class access to benefit has remained the same .
3 He reported having enjoyed the weekly game of football with other members of the youth unemployment centre .
4 Bloomsbury was five years old in 1991 , and might have been expected to have outgrown the cash-hungry habits of the start-up .
5 More units might have been expected to have explored the extra income potential of specialised products .
6 In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career .
7 The new volume ties that information through its comprehensive indices , but also serves as a catalogue of Monet 's drawings , sketchbooks , pastels , caricatures and curiosities , which include three tapestries woven , with his approval , from his designs , and fragments of pictures which appear to have survived the ruthless pruning which he inflicted on works of insufficient merit .
8 However , these optimistic hopes , while not entirely misconceived , appear to have ignored the many formidable traditional obstacles to the emancipation of women that still remain in most Third World societies , as well as new obstacles created by the so-called ‘ modernization ’ processes themselves .
9 Some Viennese and Italian builders appear to have attempted the impossible .
10 Former Halifax man , Derek Hall was the executioner , who for once was devastated to have claimed the winning goal .
11 Whatever the mix of capital investment and labour , new designs only rarely emerge from Glascoed : each has to have survived the tortuous processes of ministry procurement and the logistical rigours of subcontracted production — often involving half a dozen other factories , sometimes more .
12 It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’
13 The other monks all claimed to have shared the same experience .
14 To this extent the law can be considered to have endorsed the corporatist perspective .
15 They also found that this same Robert Gravier was reported to have chartered the ill-fated Falcon Jet N888AR from Hansa Jet to take him from LaGuardia Airport , New York , to Acapulco .
16 In response an estimated 6,000 nationalists were reported to have demonstrated the same evening in Tirgu Mures , demanding that Hungarians not be granted separate education in their own language or minority rights .
17 The referee was reported to have blown the final whistle outside his dressing-room door .
18 On Dec. 6 , with the US Marine force offshore awaiting orders to land , a 100-truck aid convoy with armed guards was reported to have transported the first food aid to leave the port for over a month .
19 Planck is reported to have counselled the young Einstein in 1913 : ‘ As an older friend I must advise you against it ( the pursuit of the general theory of relativity ) , for in the first place you will not succeed ; and even if you do succeed no one will believe you . ’
20 Milongo , who received only 10.18 per cent of the vote , was reported to have petitioned the Supreme Court on Aug. 11 to have the result of the first round annulled because of irregularities .
21 However , Iraqi forces were reported to have mined the northern oilfields around Kirkuk , claimed by the Kurds as part of their territory .
22 Although the sentences were to run consecutively , the court was reported to have reduced the total period of imprisonment by two years as a gesture of goodwill .
23 New York private dealer Stephen Hahn is reported to have sold the priciest picture of the show — ‘ Bertele Chat Sauvage ’ , a rare , early oil by Jean Dubuffet .
24 The annual award is for the trainee deemed to have made the greatest contribution to the Trainee Solicitors Group .
25 will deliver the Converted Text of the Work to no later than 30 days after the execution of this contract and will be deemed to have accepted the Converted Text of the Work within 30 days after the date of delivery , unless is notified to the contrary .
26 Details of any such contract conditions will be supplied by us on request , but you will be deemed to have accepted the same as part of the terms of this order , whether such request has been made by you or not .
27 So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature .
28 The third was Private Eye 's Adrian Mole-style Diary of John Major , which it was claimed had made the Prime Minister such a figure of ridicule that it might be a significant factor in his losing this election .
29 ) Excluding Gibson and Fender , which guitar company do you feel has had the most impact on the guitar industry in the last decade , and why ?
30 This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality .
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