Example sentences of "[verb] have [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Author Maurice Baren has has uncovered some surprising facts about these household favourites … |
| 2 | Occasionally they appear to have had some direct influence on the formulation of the documents — the particular mention of the Anglican communion in the decree on ecumenism for example , as of the ‘ hierarchy of truths ’ — and their advice was sought , at least by the Unity Secretariat ( whose guest they were ) on religious freedom . |
| 3 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 4 | ANC leaders including its president Nelson Mandela had previously made similar allegations against the government , refusing to continue with constitutional negotiations until it acted to halt the violence [ see p. 38178 ] , which was reported to have claimed some 2,000 lives over 10 months to the end of June . |
| 5 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 6 | It is ironic that while scientific exploration has been producing incredible and exciting pictures of the world around us the technology it has spawned has had some depressing results — from atomic bombs to chlorofluorocarbons . |
| 7 | In her company he seemed to have shed some English drilling and become more American . " |
| 8 | Most importantly , even though such ‘ accidents ’ may be shown to have had some precipitating social factors in the past , there is no need to suggest that such factors are present today . |
| 9 | Not infrequently the father of a masochist can be shown to have had some abnormal development of the brain . |
| 10 | Knott claimed to have taken the mineral rights of " all the Isle of Man " , and claimed to have discovered some promising lodes there . |
| 11 | In addition to making large payments to the Inagawa-kai crime syndicate , Hiroyasu Watanabe , former president of the Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin trucking company , who was due to stand trial later in the year , was alleged to have paid some 70,000 million yen or more to around 130 members of the Diet . |
| 12 | The volcanic eruptions are thought to have finished some 1.7 million years ago , and the volcanoes are considered extinct . |
| 13 | Natural caves are the most obvious ; some of the earliest evidence for permanent dwellings comes from caves , and they also seem to have had some ritual function , connected with ancient cave paintings . |
| 14 | I do n't understand it but I seem to have found some extra money in my purse and I do n't know where it came from . |
| 15 | But both returned having learned some lasting truths about themselves and the country they call home . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | When the car was delivered it was found to have done some 550 miles . |
| 19 | On the one hand the theologians of the fifth century were also experts in rhetoric , even if the style they chose as being appropriate to their religious works was different from that used by Sidonius in his letters and poems ; on the other , Sidonius is known to have composed some ecclesiastical works including an epitaph for the ascetic Abraham , poems for various churches , as well as a version of the Mass which appears not to have survived . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Some captured males with orchid pollinia are believed to have flown some 45–50 km in seeking the orchids . |
| 22 | In August 1868 there had been terrible earthquakes in the Andean foothills of Peru and Ecuador , which were estimated to have cost some 25,000 lives ; these events made some stir in London and £11,000 was collected to relieve suffering . |
| 23 | In studying these to find their causes we need to have done some natural philosophy , because these motions of the mind have their causes in sense and imagination . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |