Example sentences of "[vb infin] to have [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked : ‘ Will you seek to have published the report on these matters prepared by the DTI which has recently been the subject of much press speculation . ’ |
| 2 | If the conclusions derived from the analysis of the content of Merovingian gold coin and Anglo-Saxon jewellery are correct ( Hawkes , Merrick and Metcalf 1966 ) , the jewellers do not appear to have refined the gold . |
| 3 | This model not only represents the simplest type of search but it would appear to have become the basis for subject searches as well , over-simplifying what is in fact a very complex process . |
| 4 | The inequality of wealth and income was still gross , although the rise of unemployment does not appear to have worsened the position of the working classes . |
| 5 | It is in the battle scenes that the new film differs most from Olivier 's prototype , and Branagh can fairly claim to have stripped the veneer of jingoism from the play , by showing war in its true horror . |
| 6 | And I can claim to have seen the film years before its TV appearance . |
| 7 | By the time of his retirement in 1974 , with one-man operation established and costs reduced , the future was more secure and Joe Franklin — like Charles Furness — could claim to have saved the tramway from certain extinction . |
| 8 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 9 | Beto describes diagnostic units as the Ford Edsells of American corrections , although he does not claim to have invented the metaphor . |
| 10 | He bellowed with laughter after she had said it , but later was serious and said , ‘ I would n't like to have to see the suffering . ’ |
| 11 | And he said , he supposed that an abortion would be the sensible thing , but he would like to have kept the child . |
| 12 | It must be a nice spot to live , though I would n't like to have to pay the window-cleaner 's bill . |
| 13 | If she laid at dawn , like most birds , she would have to have prepared the day before . |
| 14 | On reflection , I thought it less and less probable that he had done any such thing : he would have to have bypassed the dragon-lady , Leslie Brown , for a start . |
| 15 | Of course , we do n't have to have experienced the suffering in question to bring comfort . |
| 16 | She felt flattered by the suggestion , not that any of it was true of course , but she did n't want to have to explain the time she spent on her own in the flat , inventing things to do . |
| 17 | We do n't want to have to do the work twice . " |
| 18 | God help you want to have seen the size of him and how young he was . |
| 19 | I have n't been in yet because when I do I want to have bought the silk flowers for the old lady . |
| 20 | On Silver and Knitmaster punchcard machines , you will sometimes want to knit circular rows with the punchcard in. ( if the garment is knitted using a punchcard , you do n't want to have to remove the card every time you cast on ) . |
| 21 | Perhaps they did n't want to have to share the world . |
| 22 | Some are published by Kenny McKenzie 's Taranis , an imprint which does not yet seem to have hit the Spring and Autumn Books numbers of The Bookseller . |
| 23 | He did n't even seem to have noticed the opportunity . |
| 24 | The camera does not seem to have made the take-over bid for his active imagination that other people record . |
| 25 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 26 | I though it was scab , and followed a spraying treatment for that , but it does n't seem to have solved the problem yet . |
| 27 | Her early school reports were peppered with comments , complimentary or judgemental , depending on the teacher : ‘ Margaret has a very active imagination ’ , ‘ Margaret must learn not to go off into day-dreams ’ , ‘ Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction ’ . |
| 28 | But the reorganization does seem to have marked the end of any assumption that East Anglia might become another major sphere of ducal influence . |
| 29 | But the reorganization does seem to have marked the end of any assumption that East Anglia might become another major sphere of ducal influence . |
| 30 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |