Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British men 's magazine market seems never to have outgrown its tedious fascination with fast boats and faster cars . |
| 2 | The Court , however , found on July 29 that there was no case for an interim ruling against the bridge , since Denmark had given assurances that there would be no obstruction of the channel before end-1994 , by which time the Court would expect to have completed its full consideration of the case . |
| 3 | The first Persian king who seems to have accepted its basic doctrines was Darius ( 522–485 BC ) , but Achaemenid Zoroastrianism departed in certain respects from the original teachings of Zarathustra . |
| 4 | The emergence of the SCCs and the ASEA , for example , has been shown to have arisen from the work of the COS , and to have copied its basic committee structure , together with its use of a few paid organizers supervising a large number of volunteers . |
| 5 | It has preferred to follow rather than lead the majority of the industry 's employers and seems to have interpreted its own role as that of a safety net to protect the worst-exploited workers . |
| 6 | Controversy over who was entitled to vote in the referendum had begun in July 1991 , when Morocco had appeared to have retracted its previous acceptance of the 1974 census as a basis [ see also p. 38410 ] . |
| 7 | In the IBM case , IBM was considered by the Commission to hold a dominant position ( inter alia ) in the supply of two key products for a particular computer system , and was found to have abused its dominant position by refusing to supply other manufacturers in sufficient time with technical information to permit the interfacing of those other products with IBM equipment , particularly by tying in the supply of IBM software and hardware and by discriminating between users of IBM software . |
| 8 | Akzo , the Dutch multinational chemical company , was found to have abused its dominant position in a particular chemical market by reducing its prices with the objective of driving out of business a competitor in the market in which Akzo held a dominant position . |
| 9 | The interview seemed to have reached its natural conclusion . |
| 10 | The Dominican Republic was widely held to have undermined its own efforts to become a full member of CARICOM following the announcement in January 1990 of a plan to export up to 763 tonnes of bananas per week to Europe from April 1990 . |
| 11 | Scientific opinion was divided over the consequences of the war , and some environmentalists were felt to have overstated its negative effects . |
| 12 | For example , Great Northern Knit wear seems to have increased its total number of employees from 80 to 105 in September 1987 following £717 000 of new investment . |
| 13 | Ultimately the baron paid only half the total price , a record for a Gauguin , though Sotheby 's is believed to have charged its full commission to both buyer and seller , as usual . |
| 14 | Here then was an instrument that might be confidently expected to have retained its historical integrity . |
| 15 | And indeed , reality seemed to have lost its accustomed hold , just as the day wavered uncertainly between night and morning . |
| 16 | Thus , the symbol of science in this case seems to have lost its scientific elements and have become anchored in much older images ( perhaps even in the image of a wise man , who has constructed his own Golem within his own brain ) . |
| 17 | Gold seems to have lost its old role as a safe haven . |
| 18 | The national conference was reported to have held its concluding session on Dec. 6 , after electing a 453-member High Council of the Republic under the chairmanship of the Most Rev. Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya , the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kisangani , who had chaired the conference . |
| 19 | The painting seems to have acquired its present name after the war , when it entered the possession of M. Jacques Doucet . |
| 20 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |