Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then prices were estimated to have fallen by about 50 per cent . |
| 2 | The Great Plague of London is said to have broken out in 1665 in a marshy district known as the Seven Dials , and it was especially prevalent along the old river Fleet . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ On top of all his talent , to have come back from such a serious injury and regain his best form is supremely brave . |
| 4 | If it is , it has to have come about by Darwinian selection of fluke genes . |
| 5 | In a special note about the committee 's findings sent to its 1,250 members last week , Imro wrote : ‘ We can not claim to have come out of this very well : to an extent , Imro was thumped and that is not an agreeable experience . |
| 6 | ‘ One of the best things to have come out of this is the realisation that there are people who really do care about us and about Graham , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 7 | ‘ Unfortunately , in all the confusion of evidence , it seems to have come down to one brother 's word against the other . ’ |
| 8 | On June 19 security forces clashed with some 200 Islamic militants who were reported to have attacked up to 20 shops and homes of Christians in Sanabu . |
| 9 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 10 | Kenamun clearly hoped to reap the rewards of a quick and flashy double solution , and to have moved on to other work before the murders recommenced . |
| 11 | There is no suggestion in the that he was dismissed from the kazaskerlik ; he seems simply to have moved on to another job , one which , according to Hocazade 's own testimony , suited him very well . |
| 12 | Once more it was the terms used by people such as the Iroquois , who were believed to have moved on from this stage , who provided the evidence for its previous existence . |
| 13 | Emotional maturation is arrested during the active phase of addictive disease and therefore the counsellor who is in recovery will need to have made up for this lost time for emotional development . |
| 14 | To some extent , each pattern seems to have grown up for extraneous , though important , reasons to do with institutional or occupational history and student circumstances . |
| 15 | Most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in one or other of the many contemporary versions of what are often lumped together under the general label " modern industrial societies " . |
| 16 | The mala is the 14th of the 71 mammals unique to Australia to have died out since European colonization . |
| 17 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 18 | City directors are understood to have pulled out for financial reasons . |
| 19 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 20 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 've now had two further years when we do n't seem to have gone on from that . |
| 22 | ‘ We ought to have gone up to that barn right at the start , ’ said Nooty . |
| 23 | Demons of unbelief , demons responsible for masturbation , demons responsible for unhappiness and depression , demons that control our cities — all these and many more seem to have popped up with alarming regularity in recent years . |
| 24 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 25 | Beside her , however , Alan seemed suddenly to have sunk back into grim-faced absorption . |
| 26 | Following the introduction of a state of emergency in Moldova on March 28 [ see pp. 38828-29 ] , Moldovan Interior Ministry troops on April 1 made a raid on the town of Bendery in the separatist self-proclaimed ethnic Russian " Dnestr Republic " which was reported to have left up to 18 people dead . |
| 27 | ‘ I am sufficiently stupid to have put up with all that for a time , but I will not be cuckolded by a duck . |
| 28 | This view seems to have rubbed off on foreign , non-Marxist interpreters of the passage of NEP , who as a whole are inclined to think that a cultural policy of laissez-faire was pursued throughout NEP . |
| 29 | Sikh separatists were reported to have massacred up to 57 people , mainly police officers and their relatives , in the first two weeks of August in retaliation against the recent killing of three Sikh militant leaders , namely Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala , head of the Khalistan Liberation Force ( killed in July — see p. 39008 ) , his successor , Navroop Singh ( killed on Aug. 2 ) and Sukhdev Singh Babbar , chief of the Babbar Khalsa International ( killed on Aug. 9 ) . |
| 30 | They claimed to have killed up to 200 government soldiers , especially in the provinces of Chalatenango , Morazan and Usulutan where fighting had been fiercest , and to have " neutralized " the main Ilopango air base near the capital , San Salvador . |