Example sentences of "to have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , it is possible that the vet may not be able to come to your home immediately , and it can be extremely traumatic to have to wait a whole day until the vet is free to leave the surgery . |
| 32 | Bazin 's inauguration on June 19 was boycotted by local diplomats but was attended by the papal nuncio ( the Vatican being the only state to have recognized the army-backed regime ) . |
| 33 | Bloomsbury was five years old in 1991 , and might have been expected to have outgrown the cash-hungry habits of the start-up . |
| 34 | This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king . |
| 35 | They also found that this same Robert Gravier was reported to have chartered the ill-fated Falcon Jet N888AR from Hansa Jet to take him from LaGuardia Airport , New York , to Acapulco . |
| 36 | Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance . |
| 37 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 38 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 39 | Why , then , was John Titford a member of this glorified Home Guard when , at the age of 23 , we might have expected him to have joined the regular army or to have found his way somehow into the militia ? |
| 40 | Brooke appears to have joined the Alien Office around 1796 , and he was clerk from about 1798 to 1813 . |
| 41 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 42 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 43 | In the admittedly biassed complaint sent to the Duke of Montrose by Mungo Graeme of Gorthie in 1716 , Gorthie 's brother , John Graeme , does appear more likely to have proven an effective revenue officer than the man whom Campbell interest placed in the post of land surveyor : |
| 44 | Hekmatyar was reported on Aug. 23 to have received a joint mujaheddin peace delegation representing several provinces , but to have rejected a proposal from Rabbani that a ceasefire should not be conditional on the withdrawal from Kabul of the powerful Uzbek militia led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam . |
| 45 | While the fears of some that deals had been done are not justified by our data , in at least one school senior staff claim to have received a Minor Project grant as a retrospective reward . |
| 46 | Some ministers , like some clergymen and bishops in the Church of England , were extremely well paid : Parker appears to have received an annual salary of £1,700 ( nearly £60,000 in 1990 ) while Spurgeon received £1,500 . |
| 47 | We do not appear to have received the signed documents back from you yet . |
| 48 | Birkenhead , the chairman of the committee , which had produced rather limp conclusions , is reported to have broken an awed silence to announce that if the Prime Minister spoke to the House as he had just spoken to the Cabinet he would do so with unanimous support and triumphant outcome . |
| 49 | His relatively strong showing in the election , coupled with that of the MSN , was judged to have broken the traditional grip of the PL and PSC on the country 's political system . |
| 50 | Rambo the lamb is reckoned to have broken the local record , weighing in at twenty two pounds . |
| 51 | Fertiliser use is apparently very limited because of cost in spite of such grants and the RP seemed to have to peddle a narrow course between not stimulating significant agricultural change but allowing enough development to support a viable local economy . |
| 52 | Deng Yingchao 's authority arose not only from her marriage to Zhou in 1925 , but also from her status as one of only around 50 women to have completed the Long March of 1934-35 . |
| 53 | Pareto 's initial training was as a civil engineer ; he always seems to have regarded the natural sciences as superior to the social sciences , and he consistently attempted to apply models of equilibria derived from mechanics to society . |
| 54 | The basic principle of English criminal law , that a person should be presumed to be innocent until proven to have committed a criminal offence , produces another principle . |
| 55 | ‘ if it is demonstrated by reference to authority binding on this court , or by reference to clearly established principles of the common law , that the appellants were rightly held to have committed the actus reus of contempt of court , this court can not apply directly the terms of the Convention so as to reach a different conclusion . |
| 56 | Former Halifax man , Derek Hall was the executioner , who for once was devastated to have claimed the winning goal . |
| 57 | When the 1976 election returns were in , Jimmy Carter was found to have won a narrow victory over Gerald Ford . |
| 58 | As the votes were counted it became clear that the contest was the closest federal election for 30 years , with both sides claiming to have won a narrow victory . |
| 59 | In this instance all four parts are written in the same ink , but the inner parts contain numerous erasures and second thoughts , as well as a 16-bar gap in the viola part : as we shall see , Purcell seems to have added the entire movement later . ) |
| 60 | Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title . |