Example sentences of "[vb base] to have [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapeutic possibilities of the inhibitory substance appear to have received little attention from Fleming . |
| 2 | The authorities appear to have made little effort to identify the perpetrators of any of these attacks . |
| 3 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 4 | Companies thus appear to have made some strides towards repairing net worth , partly as a result of responding early to signs of recession . |
| 5 | Each of the major kingdoms appear to have had such trading centres in the eighth century ( Hodges 1982a ; Biddle 1976 ) , even an inland centre such as Northampton was a royal centre and is also described as a trading centre . |
| 6 | The stone circles appear to have had some sort of tradition of dancing , perhaps associated with these key times . |
| 7 | The people of Ghana appear to have taken this development calmly , but for White liberal friends of Ghana this seemed like the parting of the ways . |
| 8 | However , economic trends and social security changes appear to have undermined these strategies . |
| 9 | There will be some danger , but by the end of tomorrow I hope to have won this battle . ’ |
| 10 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 11 | Not many seem to have escaped this type of harassment . |
| 12 | Open OLTP monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , AT&T 's Tuxedo and Transarc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
| 13 | Open transaction processing monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Tuxedo and Transarc Inc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction Support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
| 14 | Such was the powerful rhetoric of Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that the very conducting habits in Paris which they denigrated in the mid-18th century seem to have affected all views about practice during the following decades . |
| 15 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |
| 16 | The uprising of 1848 gave them an opportunity to alter their status , but they did not take it and by and large seem to have accepted that industrialisation meant inevitable Germanisation . |
| 17 | The authorities seem to have adopted that slogan of the insurance company . |
| 18 | ‘ I seem to have done some shop-lifting ’ ? |
| 19 | They do not , however , seem to have possessed any programme for the betterment of lay society . |
| 20 | Although a number of deaf people , especially in London , Coventry and Southampton lost their homes , deaf institutes , churches and schools seem to have received more damage . |
| 21 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 22 | Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve . |
| 23 | Various threatened vested interests seem to have designed this portrayal specifically to discourage any honest , in depth inquiry into the actual tenets of the field . |
| 24 | Service If it all stopped there you 'd still be left with a very capable and complete utility , but the people at Rupp seem to have taken another class of user into consideration — the user who wants to ‘ dock ’ a portable into a desktop setup and use its drives and printers in a sort of client/server networking fashion . |
| 25 | Although , fortunately up to now , I never seem to have had many health problems with using opiates . |
| 26 | But once ashore , others seem to have had little difficulty in establishing new homes . |
| 27 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 28 | Generally , the small Wealden farmers seem to have had little incentive or commitment to improvement . |
| 29 | In some cases , though , reports seem to have had little impact , and in many others their effects are difficult to assess . |
| 30 | By contrast , the English seem to have had fewer ships at this period , although Edward III had some royal ships , and vessels were built for largely defensive purposes . |