Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , Jean 's existence has not been known until now : Martin was thought to have been the only son of Jean and Marguerite Delalande to have held a court position . |
| 2 | But the Labour leaders ' caution was understandable in the light of the amendments made to the party constitution after the break with Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 , the last leader to have favoured a coalition government , whose action had led to a split in the party and his expulsion from membership . |
| 3 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 4 | P.S. I assume Tertje was only referring to players that have *left* Leeds in his time as a supporter when naming Cuntona as the most important person to have filled a Leeds shirt . |
| 5 | He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot . |
| 6 | It would seem strange for the lord to have pursued a policy of buying up freeholds while leaving undisturbed copyholders who for the most part were virtually owners too . |
| 7 | A group of people who practise transcendential meditation claim to have caused a drop in violent crime in America . |
| 8 | Researchers from Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Cambridge Laboratory , working with Cambridge University 's Microelectronics Research Centre claim to have fabricated a memory cell that uses a single electron to store one bit , vastly reducing the power that would be required by huge-capacity memory chips — a device the size of a silver dollar could store 1T-bits while drawing just 0.1W : in current technology it would be the size of a tennis court and dissipate 10KW . |
| 9 | His partner in the conspiracy , James Laming , who claimed during the trial to have invented a racehorse nobbling stun gun , was jailed for 14 years . |
| 10 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 11 | RESIDENTS who blockaded a road after a child was injured look to have lost a fight for traffic safety measures . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most appropriate nation that we could ask to accept the new headquarters of a strengthened and reformed IAEA is Japan , the one nation to have experienced a wartime nuclear attack . |
| 13 | After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings . |
| 14 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
| 15 | It is no hardship to have to carry a pail of water along a flat surface . ’ |
| 16 | The first company to have received a licence is due to begin operations by the end of this year . |
| 17 | Egypt is the only Arab country to have signed a peace agreement with Israel . |
| 18 | It would not have surprised him as he walked clockwise round the house to have met a policeman proceeding widdershins . |
| 19 | Newton seems at that time to have accepted a variant of the ethereal vortices that Descartes had set rotating around the Sun to carry the Earth and the planets in orbital motion . |
| 20 | If they had time to have had a look er , if someone could , could take the part of Maria . |
| 21 | We therefore expect the Tunguska fireball to have reached a height above its airburst altitude appropriate to a nuclear surface burst . |
| 22 | Why is it not a detriment to the mother to have to prove a fact to the father — something she has no prior obligation to do ? |
| 23 | ‘ It 's most unfair of the Labour Party to have imposed a burden such as this on a man of John Scott 's age , ’ he says . |