Example sentences of "[vb pp] to have [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 2 | Storms and flooding at the end of August were reported to have killed more than 150 people and made thousands homeless in southern Bangladesh . |
| 3 | Igglesden , too , bowled well for 50 wickets and is reported to have wintered prosperously and without injury in South Africa . |
| 4 | The company was also reported to have paid more than 40,000 million yen to some 200 politicians , including members of the LDP and opposition parties . |
| 5 | A selection is being made of these authorities which are revealed to have diverged upwards or downwards by a statistically significant amount from the others in their class and a detailed investigation made in the authorities concerned to discover the causes . |
| 6 | It might be said to have gone further than Scandinavian legislation in distinguishing the position of the wife from that of her unmarried counterpart , since it would arguably have denied her equal access to the law . |
| 7 | Random inspections undertaken in England and Wales last year were said to have found more than half the sample failing to comply with statutory requirements . |
| 8 | The broker was said to have acted honestly and in good faith , and that was all that was required of him . |
| 9 | Koons 's last show at that New York gallery , which showed works depicting the artist in sex acts with his wife the porn star and Italian parliamentarian Ilona Staller is said to have sold badly and run up its own multi-million-dollar deficit . |
| 10 | A map of the London camera sights is said to have sold more than fifty thousand copies , but Thames Valley police refused to tell the publishers where their own cameras are . |
| 11 | His fleet is said to have numbered more than 200 vessels and his army had grown even larger since leaving France . |
| 12 | If you set unobtainable objectives you will be seen to have failed even if you do a wonderful job . |
| 13 | According to a spokeswoman for the Fraud Squad , he is alleged to have stolen more than £130,000 from the Inland Revenue over a four-year period . |
| 14 | The team at SAUS is collaborating with a team at the University of Bath in a study of Swindon , an expanding town on the M4 which is thought to have received more than its share of the benefits of economic change . |
| 15 | By an Act of 1808 ( 48 Geo III cap 123 ) , anyone who had been a year in prison for a debt of less than £20 was thought to have suffered enough and must be allowed to go home . |
| 16 | Fighting around Kupres , in which Yugoslavian federal fighter jets have been used to attack Croat positions , is thought to have claimed more than 100 lives , although there has been no independent confirmation . |
| 17 | Particular attention centres on four pubs the Owton Lodge , the Traveller 's Rest , the Hour Glass and the Smiths Arms at Greatham which Mr McEvoy is known to have visited just before he was gunned down outside his home in Greta Avenue last Saturday . |
| 18 | He is known to have resided there and in 1480 he extended his Craven estates by buying the manor of Carleton in Craven and associated land from William Singleton . |
| 19 | He is known to have resided there and in 1480 he extended his Craven estates by buying the manor of Carleton in Craven and associated land from William Singleton . |
| 20 | The police operation is believed to have begun more than five weeks ago |
| 21 | Ordnance is believed to have paid less than £10m to buy British Manufacture and Research from Cork Gully , the Astra receivers . |
| 22 | The grid street plan is believed to have originated earlier and further east , possibly in Mesopotamia , but the concept is familiarly associated with the name of Hippodamos , a Greek philosopher and town planner who lived in the early fifth century B.C. This is due to Aristotle who ascribed its invention to Hippodamos who was born in Miletos . |
| 23 | Each of the bombs is believed to have contained less than 1lb of explosive but caused panic and paralysed Central London . |
| 24 | Furthermore , although he was believed to have committed more than one murder , he enjoyed a surprisingly mild and genial reputation . |
| 25 | Since Jan. 17 the allies were estimated to have flown more than 110,000 sorties and to have lost 36 aircraft in combat ( USA 27 ( plus one helicopter ) , UK six , Kuwait one , Italy one , Saudi Arabia one ) . |
| 26 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 27 | It is in line with the precedent of the timetable motion on the Local Government Finance Bill , which is generally held to have worked well and provided for effective consideration of the Bill . |
| 28 | If the agency then acts differently it may be held to have acted unfairly and illegally , at least if it has not given the citizen a chance to make representations as to why he or she should be treated in the way expected . |
| 29 | On these facts the plaintiff was held to have acted reasonably and the defendant was liable for her injuries . |
| 30 | Many countries , mainly those in the civil law tradition , have made this declaration , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Egypt , France , Germany , Luxembourg , Norway , Portugal , Seychelles and Turkey ( but not Italy ) ; accordingly an attempt to serve process via a United States Vice-Consul in the German Federal Republic has been held to be ineffective and the Netherlands Ministry of External Affairs was held to have acted properly when it refused to accept a document intended for service via the diplomatic channel on a defendant in France . |