Example sentences of "to have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 2 | Thus the family , neighbourhood , or work-place groups of older and younger men and a sprinkling of women , which seem to have formed the basic unit of attendance between the wars and before , broke up . |
| 3 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 4 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 5 | Owner Lachie Stewart aims to have re-built the 16th-century fortress he bought two years ago by December 1999 . |
| 6 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 7 | McCann 's speech , with its suggestion that the police lines ought to be charged , while refusing to actually call for such action , seems to have typified the confused militancy of the radicals , who were suddenly precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared . |
| 8 | ‘ The Slav idea , indirect Austrian control over Serbia or even German domination of the Straits do not , in the light of cold reason , ’ concludes a recent review of Russia 's options , ‘ seem to have justified the appalling risks Russia faced in entering a European war . ’ |
| 9 | An immediate option for Tottenham was to have stripped the big centre-half of the captaincy at Elland Road and hit him with a hefty fine . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Bloomsbury was five years old in 1991 , and might have been expected to have outgrown the cash-hungry habits of the start-up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Brooke appears to have joined the Alien Office around 1796 , and he was clerk from about 1798 to 1813 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We do not appear to have received the signed documents back from you yet . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rambo the lamb is reckoned to have broken the local record , weighing in at twenty two pounds . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Former Halifax man , Derek Hall was the executioner , who for once was devastated to have claimed the winning goal . |
| 24 | 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 . ) |
| 25 | Nothing is known of Bishop Æthelric 's connections , but it could be that if he had relatives they were among Cnut 's supporters , or that as an individual he was prepared to back the king , for he is said to have enjoyed the royal favour . |
| 26 | The party was delighted to have got its hands back on to the levers of power and to have smashed the Labour Party in the process . |
| 27 | In fact , David himself believed it would have been far better to have let the whole matter drop . |
| 28 | He seemed to have forgotten the traumatic revelations of the previous evening , smiling and giving her a peck on the cheek as he left . |
| 29 | Apparently Chéron hid Modi 's clothes to keep him in , for Brancusi claimed to have rescued the stranded painter by buying him a jersey and a pair of trousers so that he could go out into the street . |
| 30 | The consortium 's spokesman Chris Rowley claims his group is the only one to have cracked the retuning problem . |