Example sentences of "to have [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
2 | His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere … |
3 | He was alleged to have diverted public funds through front companies to himself , his friends and the PS , leaving the municipality with creditors claiming a total of F1,200 million . |
4 | Wilfrid is claimed to have baptised 250 slaves of both sexes at Selsey and there is the celebrated case of ‘ Angles ’ from Deira , an area approximating to the historic county of Yorkshire , being sold in the market-place of Rome c . |
5 | Yes , it would have been quite useful to have given that tape as some indication on that little diagram on the tape recorder , about a minute or , they 're all standard tape recorders , how much measure , how much is it in terms of time , a minute of your tape is ten minutes |
6 | Similarly , other Rowdies who have been shown to have given long service through organizing or chant leading might also have a chance of making the grade . |
7 | Unlike the previous year Mozart only appears to have given one concert during Lent ; was he simply too busy , or was he perhaps no longer in quite such demand ? |
8 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
9 | On Aug. 3 Pekka Tuomisto was appointed Trade and Industry Minister in place of Kauko Juhantalo , who was alleged to have given lucrative contracts to various firms he owned . |
10 | While he declared that the Lebanese , Syrian and Iranian governments were to continue to support resistance to Israel , he was believed to have given some undertakings to the Lebanese government on restraining Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon . |
11 | He was said to have given medical treatment to Iraqi soldiers who came to the hospital for treatment . |
12 | To have given full details at that earlier point would have been to remove the sting from the report to Eli , and spoil its shock . |
13 | TWO days after the US invasion of Panama , Britain is still the only member of the European Community to have given public support to the action . |
14 | Art-B was said to have arranged huge loans from Poland 's two biggest financial institutions , the National Bank of Poland ( central bank ) and the PKO ( the state savings bank ) , and was accused of illegal manipulation of bank deposits and loans , profiting illegally from the country 's 60 per cent interest rates . |
15 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
16 | Worse still , the unique Gynaecological Oncology Unit at Bart 's was full — she was going to have to wait two weeks for a bed there . |
17 | No one appears to have recognized any difficulties with that . |
18 | The release of Mandela on feb. 11 [ see pp. 37232-33 ] also appeared to have provoked new levels of violence , particularly in faction fighting in Natal townships ; by late March some 250 people had been killed since his release , mostly in Natal and the homelands . |
19 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |
20 | I am very sorry to have to report these words of the King 's , and I only do so because of my love of the truth . |
21 | Consequently , some experimental predestinarians would only associate with sub-groups of the elect within the established church , while others like William Bradshaw would have preferred to have limited communicant membership of the visible , national church solely to the elect . |
22 | Keynesianism seemed to have banished mass unemployment for ever and wage rises seemed as natural and regular as the tides . |
23 | Many mountain belts situated along present or past plate boundaries contain numerous individual slivers of crust some of which , on the basis of palaeomagnetic and structural evidence , together with their assemblage of rock types , appear to have travelled great distances before arriving in their present positions . |
24 | The situation temporarily stabilised , but in further unrest in November at least thirty deaths were reported and tens of thousands of refugees were reported to have joined fellow nationals in the other republic ( eventually about 130,000 Azeris left Armenia and 200,000 Armenians made the journey in the reverse direction ) . |
25 | Equally , they wanted to be able to reduce their manpower as orders were completed and did not want to have to carry excess staff during slack periods . |
26 | The therapeutic possibilities of the inhibitory substance appear to have received little attention from Fleming . |
27 | The government of North Korea , which was believed to have received advanced warning of the move from its longstanding Chinese ally , gave a muted reaction to the news . |
28 | Sharif 's candidacy was reported to have received strong backing from some sections of the army , including nine corps commanders , among them Gen. Hamid Gul , known for his links to the fundamentalist religious party , the Jamaat-i-Islami , which was also one of Sharif 's most committed allies . |
29 | The meeting , convened at the initiative of US President Bush following his appeal in May for an end to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East [ see p. 38217 ] , was reported to have received strong backing from French President Mitterrand who launched his own arms control programme in June [ see p. 38314 ] . |
30 | In addition to Kanemaru and Kaneko , numerous other politicians , particularly members of the LDP , were thought to have received illegal payments from Hiroyasu Watanabe , former president of Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin . |