Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of September an anti-Singh faction within the Janata Dal appeared to have coalesced around the Prime Minister 's arch-rival Chandra Shekhar . |
| 2 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 3 | A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble , but red-hot lava began creeping over it yesterday and into a private orchard . |
| 4 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 5 | Over recent years much work has been done to promote more positive images of women in mathematics , but this does not seem to have developed into a comparable awareness concerning race or class . |
| 6 | The particle ia , which functions as a relativizer , bracketing off relative from main clause , as in 55 , is shown to have developed from an earlier deictic function , as in 56 : |
| 7 | Much of this moral panic about population ageing seems to have developed from the widespread and possibly indiscriminate use of population dependency ratios ( Calasanti and Bonanno 1986 ) . |
| 8 | We 're still here , two extensions later , and very happy not to have jumped on the house-moving bandwagon . |
| 9 | Nevertheless taxation does not seem to have fallen on the whole population . |
| 10 | Bolger claimed success for Richardson 's strategy when in mid-1991 the inflation rate was shown to have fallen to a 25-year low of 2.8 per cent , compared with 7.6 per cent a year earlier . |
| 11 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 12 | She is thought to have fallen from an eighth floor window . |
| 13 | As we walked around the town I witnessed several incidents as girls who had been known to have collaborated with the German forces were seized by members of the Resistance and had their hair chopped off , to the jeers and cat-calls of those standing around . |
| 14 | Even more dramatically , Darren Coulbourn , the white boy from Burnage High School who murdered Ahmed Iqbal Ullah and triumphantly proclaimed ‘ I 've killed a Paki ’ , was also known to have collaborated with an Asian boy in burning down the art block and ‘ used to get into trouble ’ at school ( as the Burnage Report puts it ) in the company of an Afro-Caribbean boy . |
| 15 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 16 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 17 | Union Discount claimed to have relied on the 1982 accounts in deciding in late 1983 and early 1984 to discount four bills of exchange , totalling £550,000 , drawn by Berg . |
| 18 | Union Discount was found not to have relied on the 1982 accounts and the deficit on liquidation arose largely because of unsuccessful commodity trading in 1984 and the failure of an £8m debtor , Esal . |
| 19 | Contracts for services are commonly personal as in such circumstances the customer is likely to have relied upon the individual skill and identity of the vendor . |
| 20 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
| 21 | At first sight , Holly Aylett appears to have stumbled on the ideal Arena subject with her A Spanish Odyssey — A Portrait of Javier Mariscal ( BBC2 on Friday : 9.30–10.30 pm ) . |
| 22 | The proportion of the London equity market accounted for by private shareholders appears to have stabilised in the past two years at about 18 per cent . |
| 23 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 24 | The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s . |
| 25 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 26 | Both his father and his uncle had been Stickies , while several younger relatives were reputed to have broken with the official wing and gone over to the Provies . |
| 27 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 28 | Besides the meetings at Mercereau 's and the Closerie , the painters began meeting regularly at Le Fauconnier 's studio in the rue Visconti as well , where during the closing months of the year they watched with interest the development through successive stages of his Abondance , a painting that all appear to have regarded as an important , revolutionary work . |
| 29 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 30 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |