Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The vugs , fractures and intercrystalline pores , on the other hand , are thought to have formed in response to late leaching ( Clark 1980a ) . |
2 | Generally speaking the sin-offering seems to have referred to offences against God , and the guilt-offering to social offences . |
3 | When tested at the end of the first year they were found to have developed on average at about half the rate that is usual , though there were indications that at birth they had been potentially normal . |
4 | The best friend of Princess Diana 's brother was said to have arranged for bullion to be secretly exported to India . |
5 | The words ‘ office ’ and ‘ employment ’ are not further defined anywhere in the Act , and , somewhat surprisingly , appear rarely to have fallen for consideration by this court . |
6 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
7 | What Morrissey still ca n't come to terms with is that now , for some strange reason , hordes of people profess to have fallen in love with him and previous to the band , he often states , no girl ever even took him into consideration . |
8 | He is reputed to have fallen in love with Rose Baring , who was the ward of the tenant of Harrington Hall . |
9 | ‘ But I happen to have fallen in love with your mother and , well , you 're part of the package , if you see what I mean . ’ |
10 | How could she have confessed , in that split second of agonised honesty , that she was sufficiently stupid to have fallen in love with him … ? |
11 | There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution . |
12 | At a time when Pound was principally a student of Provençal poetry , he appears to have been as good as his word , and to have travelled on foot over the terrain in question . |
13 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
14 | Even her heart seemed to have stopped in mid-beat in her breast . |
15 | The court reform is sometimes thought to have originated in concern for the peasantry . |
16 | Before the end of August he was turning north again leaving affairs in Aquitaine to be looked after by Duke Warin and by Egfrid , whom Charles seems to have installed as count of Toulouse shortly before . |
17 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan was said on Dec. 11 to have resigned as head of the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait , reportedly in the hope of assuming overall charge of UN relief efforts . |
18 | Spain was reported to have come under pressure from the EC 's Schengen group to tighten up immigration control ; the ultimate aim of the current Schengen Agreement signatories ( the Benelux countries , France , Germany and Italy ) was the abolition of border controls throughout the EC with an accompanying strengthening of external frontiers . |
19 | On the one hand , having been ‘ on the scene ’ for some time , they were more likely to have come into contact with other injectors . |
20 | In the sixth century they were said to have come originally from the island of Scandza , to have migrated to the Black Sea , and thence to have come into contact with the Roman Empire . |
21 | More than 500 staff and 450 GPs who are believed to have come into contact with the man are being tested separately . |
22 | Health officials at the Countess of Chester Hospital , where the man works , have set up an emergency clinic to carry out skin tests on the youngsters and 500 staff who are known to have come into contact with the man . |
23 | Certainly geography helped and prevailing economic conditions played an important part , but most towns seem to have come into existence as a result of conscious decisions . |
24 | But cumulative selection can not work unless there is some minimal machinery of replication and replicator power , and the only machinery of replication that we know seems too complicated to have come into existence by means of anything less than many generations of cumulative selection ! |
25 | We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully " designed " to have come into existence by chance . |
26 | The answer , Darwin 's answer , is by gradual , step-by-step transformations from simple beginnings , from primordial entities sufficiently simple to have come into existence by chance . |
27 | Despite 19 years of close co-operation with Kohl , Teltschik was known to have come into conflict with Genscher at the Foreign Ministry . |
28 | A standard vessel in the later Greek period was the peniekonier , the fifty-oar ship , thought by Bury ( 1951 ) to have come into use in the eighth century BC , and it may be that the seal showing a vessel with thirty oars was intended to represent the Minoan forerunner of this Greek type of warship . |
29 | The term ‘ New Criticism ’ seems to have come into circulation with the publication in 1941 of a book of that title by the American poet and critic John Crowe Ransom . |
30 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |