Example sentences of "[vb infin] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not cover the Mediterranean , where England does not appear to have played a substantial part in trade until at least after the accession of the Tudors . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , fascism does not appear to have gained a strong or permanent foothold within most Conservative constituency parties . |
| 3 | Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge . |
| 4 | Sixteenth-century towns do not appear to have had a solid group of stable families in the same way as so many contemporary rural parishes . |
| 5 | ‘ The Budget does not appear to have had a positive effect on the attitudes of the consumer towards the market and investment . ’ |
| 6 | Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked . |
| 7 | Only Basel can claim to have maintained a strong international list of exhibitors . |
| 8 | I can not claim to have undertaken a comprehensive content analysis of the literature , but it is very unusual to find systematic analysis of the ‘ state ’ as such in works on Japan written in English . |
| 9 | If this occurs , the buyer can no longer claim to have suffered a total failure of consideration . |
| 10 | Unpredictably it is Cambridge that may claim to have played a major part in his developments . |
| 11 | Yet I perceive there is still some way to go before voluntary and statutory bodies can claim to have made a serious break-through in mobilising action . |
| 12 | The Committee concluded that the broadcasters could legitimately claim to have made a praiseworthy attempt to deliver the sort of programmes they had promised . |
| 13 | But a formally established exchange can also claim to have made a formal ( and , in the case of an RIE , a legally binding ) commitment to establish and maintain such features . |
| 14 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 15 | Although I could not claim to have made a detailed ethnographic study of the school , the many visits enabled me to gain a fairly broad picture of its ‘ ethos ’ . |
| 16 | I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her . |
| 17 | I would like to have had a good first round match first . |
| 18 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't seem to have made a brilliant start so far — getting lost and being late on my first day must be something of a record ! ’ |
| 20 | But Prestel does seem to have made a convincing case for its role in educational computing . |
| 21 | The peasant , says Lancaster , would thus seem to have paid a high price for protection from foreign invasion and for increasing immunity from epidemics : which probably represented the principal benefits derived from the French occupation . |
| 22 | Overall , the liberalisation which has taken place in the architectural profession since the early 1980s does not seem to have had a revolutionary effect . |
| 23 | And although Times sales are up about one hundred thousand in a month , it does n't seem to have had a big impact on the Independent . |
| 24 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |