Example sentences of "[vb pp] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adding two hours to the period within which night visits may be claimed has caused a clear rise in claims , and this accounts for most , but not all , of the increase observed since the 1990 contract . |
| 2 | Agencies then had to develop procedures for the implementation of PPB by the end of December 1965 By 1 April 1966 agencies were expected to have developed a comprehensive , multi-year programme and financial plan . |
| 3 | The Gothic , a more formidable opponent , might have been expected to have had a greater impact on the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 4 | Many also claimed to have seen a banana-shaped object in the sky , and a characteristic illuminated sign . ’ |
| 5 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 6 | No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure . |
| 7 | A group of People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) officers was reported to have formed a secret group backing the reinstatement of the former party chief , Zhao Ziyang . |
| 8 | The landlady is reported to have seen a red stain on the ceiling of one room.She called the police , and they found the body . |
| 9 | In March 1989 Vietnam was reported to have repaid a token $5,000,000 in outstanding debts to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , in an attempt to secure fresh international aid . |
| 10 | The industry-backed " Competitiveness Council " , chaired by US Vice-President Dan Quayle , was reported to have played a key role in influencing Administration policy . |
| 11 | Maung Hla , a Myanma military commander in charge of border operations , was reported to have told a Thai delegation in Myawadi on Jan. 3 , 1990 , that the Myanma government was determined to " wipe out " insurgents operating along the Thai-Myanma border . |
| 12 | He was also reported to have told a white worker not to resign , as management was ‘ only after the blacks ’ . |
| 13 | On June 13 Cohen was reported to have proposed a partial withdrawal of rebel forces from the south and the opening of land routes to the town of Juba . |
| 14 | On March 20 the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) was reported to have allocated a further F8,500,000 francs ( US$1,500,000 ) for food aid to Sudan . |
| 15 | Police who searched the house of Baland in Blois after his arrest are reported to have found a wide range of forgeries including four Chagall drawings , four works by Dérain , ten by Dufy , two by Jean Cocteau , a Camille Pissarro and eighteen drawings described as being by ‘ Maîtres de l'école de Pont-Aven ’ . |
| 16 | The handsome Lotus marketing manager is reported to have rented a luxury cottage 25 miles from the Queen 's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk . |
| 17 | The UN special envoy to the territory , Yakoub Khan , was reported to have submitted a pessimistic report to the Security Council on Oct. 28 , emphasizing the difficulty of ascertaining who should vote in a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara . |
| 18 | None of the families interviewed had experienced a sudden infant death . |
| 19 | Since science 's primary role is that of commentator rather than practitioner , the set of transformation rules and practices by which the radical 's dilemma is resolved have taken a special form . |
| 20 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 21 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 22 | The original sin began in the first cabinet when treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was said to have misused a married woman and government funds . |
| 23 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 24 | Again , during the American War of Independence , their colonel is said to have given a long speech under heavy fire about Spartan discipline and the efficient military system of the Lacedaemonians . |
| 25 | The Smiths could be said to have done a final demolition job on punk rock '76 style . |
| 26 | Financially astute , Alice cultivated people like the financier , Sir Ernest Cassel [ q.v. ] , and is said to have realized a considerable sum by the sale of certain rubber shares presented to her by her royal lover . |
| 27 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 28 | Putting it crudely , a core of knowledge , such that if a student knew certain facts , he could be said to have reached a certain standard . |
| 29 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |
| 30 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |