Example sentences of "[vb base] to have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 2 | Food costs appear to have risen at both establishments , even though Marie has secured improved terms from the suppliers . |
| 3 | The implication was that the efforts to reduce the use of remands in custody , which appear to have met with some success in the last two years after the spectacular rise of the custodial remand population during the 1980s , were having unintended and unwanted effects on the crime rate . |
| 4 | The numbers recorded appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 5 | Numbers appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 6 | These did not result from the Pleistocene glaciation ( in fact none of the ice ages of the past appear to have coincided with mass extinctions ) , but all occurred after the final retreat of the ice . |
| 7 | The financial circumstances of the college also appear to have improved since 1988 when it was forced into an underfunded merger with Bedford College , and the state of the building does not seem to require the sum of £10.5 million originally put to the Commissioners . |
| 8 | But substantial beds of green algae are present and appear to have spread in recent years ; they are probably continuing to do so . |
| 9 | What I hope to have shown in this article is that the use of discourse analysis and pragmatics to reveal significant areas of Anderson 's character proves very successful in explaining more precisely how Anderson 's vagueness , loquacity , urbanity and pomposity are evinced in his linguistic performance . |
| 10 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 11 | I seem to have gone into this exactly the same somehow . |
| 12 | Sometimes the very old seem to have moved beyond that kind of fear . |
| 13 | Most seem to have developed between 1130 and 1200 , but on some estates the process must have been complete by 1183 when the Bolden Book was compiled . |
| 14 | The same inhibitions which kept clergy clean-shaven seem to have applied to clerical uniform . |
| 15 | Such low relief is found in Greek art too ; but Greek sculptors seem to have begun with free-standing statues , and when they came to relief their approach was affected by the conventions of that art . |
| 16 | Both seem to have tripped over some elementary physics . |
| 17 | I believe that both views of their writing are justified in that they seem to have oscillated between these two poles and such oscillations are noted in several places in this book . |
| 18 | In contrast to other schools of Judaism , they seem to have subscribed to some form of reincarnation . |
| 19 | Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly . |
| 20 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 21 | The balance between headings and text has been lost ; the typesetting is definitely more uneven and gappy ; and you seem to have switched to cheaper paper such that there is more show-through . |
| 22 | It was a separate company from the BCR , though some of the directors seem to have belonged to both . |
| 23 | The exhibits in the Brussels exhibition seem to have had in common only a concentration on clearly defined simple forms and a corresponding limitation of colour , and very few of them had anything at all in common with the work of Picasso and Braque . |
| 24 | Masons seem to have earned around 15s in London over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century , and if employment was regular , that seems to represent a " middle line " for metropolitan artisans until the steeply inflationary 1790s . |
| 25 | dolphins show marked development of those parts of the brain responsible for orientation , social skill , emotional self-control and perhaps even humour … . they seem to have responded to social and sexual pressures rather than to the purely physical . |
| 26 | Civilian casualties seem to have amounted to some 400 ( the exact figures are unknown ) , while the soldiers lost 26 dead with some 200 wounded . |
| 27 | Would not Opposition Members like to have thought of that idea and put it through in legislation ? |
| 28 | ‘ Value billing ’ should , in theory , be a consequence of the value-added auditing service that most firms claim to have offered for several years . |
| 29 | So what tends to happen is that world , world agricultural prices fall , right , and that trend has been observed erm , er , it 's an im empiric empirically , agricultural product prices tend to have fallen in general sort of , over the last sort of , eighteen hundred years . |
| 30 | So what you need to have done with this is to have all the puss got out . |