Example sentences of "[adj] to have be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | " We are delighted to have been awarded full Order off Merit status on the European Tour , and the fact that we are coming to Fulford and thereby preserving an unbroken record of 20 years championship golf in this region , is equally pleasing , " said Paul Vaughan , Sponsorship Director of Whitbread & Company . |
2 | Mike Queen , director in charge of the public sector , said : ‘ We are delighted to have been awarded this prestigious £4 million contract . |
3 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
4 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
5 | We heard today they were supposed to have been getting engaged to er a seventy year old woman ! |
6 | Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David . |
7 | The aid agency Care , the main distribution agency for all UN relief operations in the north , was reported on Nov. 18 to have been granted official permission to distribute food in southern and central parts of the country . |
8 | Human skeletons and a cannon-ball weighing twelve pounds have been unearthed in the garden , and the names ‘ Battle Well ’ and ‘ Battle Cottages ’ , both found close by , are unlikely to have been called this without good reason . |
9 | Mr Major said he was immensely proud to have been elected Prime Minister in his own right . |
10 | Five American nuns were reported on Nov. 1 to have been shot dead after disappearing between Oct. 20 and 22 in areas of Monrovia then controlled by Taylor 's forces . |
11 | The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all . |
12 | At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule . |