Example sentences of "[vb pp] to have have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure .
2 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 .
3 However , of Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Nixon , Ford and Carter , none could be said to have had a decisive impact on the direction of domestic policy .
4 Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ .
5 Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year .
6 Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms .
7 The book was said to have had a sizeable effect .
8 Even the railway system constructed under British rule can now be seen to have had an ambiguous role in relation to the Indian economy , for its benefits have to be set against its encouragement of export-based production and its role in opening up India to the inflow of manufactures , mainly from Britain ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 85-.6 ) .
9 However , publication of a poll of Rabin 's fellow retired generals and of senior officials of Mossad , the intelligence service , the same day , was thought to have had a decisive effect in allaying public fears over the security aspects of Labour 's policies .
10 Recent warnings by prominent Quebec business leaders concerning the negative economic consequences of independence , coupled with the current economic recession , were thought to have had a sobering effect upon public opinion .
11 Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed .
12 The royal dynasty , thus , was thought to have had a supernatural origin .
13 The continuation of high risk behaviour in this group , who would have been counselled about safe sex when tested for HIV-1 infection , is of particular concern , as are seroconversions in those known to have had a negative test result .
14 Kim , who had transformed Daewoo from a small textile-exporting company into the country 's fourth-largest conglomerate , was renowned as an entrepreneur and was known to have had a huge amount of personal wealth with which to have supported a presidential campaign .
15 The earliest place of worship would appear to have been the chantry , constructed , it is said , as early as 1332 and rumoured to have had a secret passage running to Mere House .
16 Greek tragedy is generally assumed to have had an original connection with Dionysus .
17 The robber , aged about 20 and wearing a green hat , escaped in a G-registered burgundy-coloured Vauxhall Cavalier and is believed to have had a trilby-hatted accomplice in the car .
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