Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been a privilege to have done this and I 'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I 've encountered . |
| 2 | At last she said , ‘ I was a fool to have made that idiotic statement . |
| 3 | It 's a shame to have to write that sort of thing into a contract , but you ca n't trust the buggers . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps de Gaulle was enough of a pragmatist to have made those adjustments himself , had he remained in power . |
| 5 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 6 | Or as Engels meditated , ‘ Irish history shows one what a misfortune it is for a nation to have subjugated another nation . |
| 7 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 8 | Now that 's a bit of a change for a recruiter to have to do that . |