Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these cathedrals were intended to have many towers surmounted by spires . |
| 2 | These drugs were intended to have specific effects and on the whole it was hoped that they would have as few other effects as possible . |
| 3 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |
| 4 | After eight weeks , a further four patients eventually underwent surgery for failure to heal , two were lost to follow up , and four were deemed to have resistant ulcers ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 5 | These findings were considered to have direct implications for the development of depression . |
| 6 | They were claimed to have stabilizing qualities in a cross-wind . |
| 7 | Hatters were said to have long hours — " a man goes early and stays late " — but no fixed hours . |
| 8 | The three other countries were said to have better systems of information — information used by communities , by employers and by individuals . |
| 9 | As stated earlier , certain plants were said to have supernatural powers , often revealing an interesting combination of Christian and pagan beliefs in the one element . |
| 10 | He knew that Grainne was gentle and strong and sensitive ; he knew this as if it was something he had been born knowing ; even so , he found himself remembering that the Wolfline were said to have old enchantments in their blood , and that the old enchantments were tinged with the dark sinister magic of the first sorcerers , and that the descendants of those long-ago Wolfkings could still spin their own bewitchments and weave their own spells . |
| 11 | Its prevalence is unknown except that , in a retrospective analysis two years after cholecystectomy , eight of 93 patients were said to have loose stools and bouts of watery diarrhea . |
| 12 | Women were seen to have complete breasts with nipples on them . |
| 13 | The two projects were seen to have differing conditions of implementation and are therefore unlikely to be synchronised in a ‘ revolutionary moment ’ , but nonetheless they can be seen as mutually supportive : struggles for democratic forms within enterprises may help to build support for broader democratic planning , while a sympathetic government pursuing the latter project could also greatly expand the opportunities for enterprise democracy by means of legal changes and financing . |
| 14 | This campaign was directed principally at naturalized Englishmen of German and Jewish extraction who were thought to have conflicting loyalties . |
| 15 | Five people also had epilepsy , two were suspected of autism , two were thought to have psychiatric disorders and one had phenylketonuria . |
| 16 | Cosmopolitans and locals were shown to have different degrees of influence , participation , attitudes towards the solution of problems by means of formal rules and patterns of informal social relations . |
| 17 | Tonight these dames were going to have greener fingers than Percy Thrower . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't tell me you did n't think you were going to have any brains ! ’ |
| 19 | The powers and authorities were understood to have particular forms in the first century . |
| 20 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 21 | Although outright bans on abortion had been passed only in Utah , Louisiana and the territory of Guam , many states were known to have anti-abortionist majorities within their legislatures and governors who were opposed to abortion . |
| 22 | They decided to study a group of workers in Luton because they were known to have high incomes . |
| 23 | We have been able to show in this population based study that at least 10% ( 12/123 ) of subjects over 40 years did not have a bowel cancer , including two cases who were found to have multiple polyps at 66 and 69 years of age , but no carcinoma . |
| 24 | Diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients were found to have normal numbers of high amplitude propagated contractions , although the amplitude of high amplitude propagated contractions was significantly reduced relative to controls . |
| 25 | He noted that virtually all houses were found to have standard amenities . |
| 26 | Kaolin , or ‘ china clay ’ , is formed by the decomposition of granite , and Cornwall and Dartmoor were found to have huge deposits which were soon exploited on a large scale . |
| 27 | Springs or wells which were found to have healing properties were especially venerated , and towns such as Bath , with its famous Roman baths , developed . |
| 28 | In addition , a total of 19 ( 29% ) patients treated with NSAID were found to have peptic ulcers , compared with seven ( 11% ) patients who were not taking NSAID . |
| 29 | The effects were believed to have enduring consequences on the child 's thought processes and predispose to ( rather than precipitate ) schizophrenia . |
| 30 | Since weak left handers were observed to have sinistral relatives more frequently than strong left handers , Hécaen and Sauguet inferred that " the intensity of left handedness is not directly related to bilaterality of language representation or to familial left handedness . |