Example sentences of "was [vb pp] have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiduciary relationship can not be superimposed upon the contract in such a way as to alter the operation which the contract was intended to have according to its true construction . |
| 2 | Fighting was reported to have moved to Osijek , the capital of Eastern Slavonia ( Serb region of Croatia ) , and its surrounding area . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Maxwell was reported to have moved to France after her husband 's death , leaving behind the family mansion , Oxford 's Headington Hill Hall . |
| 4 | Watanabe was reported to have written to US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills and EC Commission Vice-President Frans Andriessen , expressing disappointment over US and EC proposals for exemptions for trade in services , and over their failure to submit detailed proposals for industrial tariff reductions as they were supposed to by the end of March . |
| 5 | A Sendero Luminoso attack on a military base in the province of Satipo , 370 km east of the capital Lima , on Oct. 2 was reported to have led to the deaths of 21 people , including an estimated 16 guerrillas , four civilians and one soldier . |
| 6 | Her own mother was reported to have bowed to her outside a London restaurant . |
| 7 | Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest . |
| 8 | President Joseph Saidu Momoh was reported to have fled to neighbouring Guinea on April 30 after mutinous soldiers said that they had seized control of the country . |
| 9 | One of the most damaging allegations in Potoy 's report was that lbarra , who was reported to have fled to Miami , had spent approximately US$400,000 to induce five centrist members of the National Assembly to vote for legislation favouring the Sandinistas . |
| 10 | Faced with revolt in the north by anti-government guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , the Djibouti government was reported to have appealed to France for military support , on the basis of the 1977 defence treaty between the two countries , and for the intervention of French forces stationed in Djibouti . |
| 11 | Farah Aydid was reported to have agreed to the deployment of UN guards and unarmed observers , but had rejected the sending of armed soldiers . |
| 12 | In the face of continuing Hungarian objections , Meciar was reported to have agreed to consultations involving the European Communities , but only on ecological aspects ; the findings would be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague . |
| 13 | The Foreign Ministers signed an accord granting approximately US$53,000,000 in immediate EC aid ( which was expected to have risen to a total of approximately $147,000,000 by 1993 ) to help reactivate Central American trade as a means to strengthen the region 's current peace initiatives . |
| 14 | About 70,000 vehicles are alleged to have been so financed last year and , by December , this figure was said to have risen to 17,000 a month at $25,000 ( £14,200 ) per vehicle . |
| 15 | On Nov. 4 , the 13th anniversary of Iranian revolutionaries ' takeover of the US embassy in Tehran [ see p. 30150 ] , the authorities announced the arrest of a US resident , Milton Meier , a travel agent , who was said to have confessed to spying . |
| 16 | Walsingham arrived on the pilgrim 's map in the 11th century when the Virgin Mary was said to have appeared to Lady Richelda , a citizen of the Norfolk town . |
| 17 | After the war the site for the statue was chosen at Terreiro da Luta , near the Fonte da Telha where the Virgin was said to have appeared to the little shepherdess . |
| 18 | He was said to have returned to his own room to finish a card game of patience before reporting finding the body . |
| 19 | The government 's chief negotiator , Mr Rafael Vera , was said to have returned to Algiers , where the talks ere held . |
| 20 | Everyone knows the story of the ass which was said to have starved to death between two exactly equal bundles of hay because it could not decide ( choose ) which one to approach . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) A licensing board shall not entertain a request to declare the provisional grant of a licence final unless the person to whom the grant was made has given to the board such notice of his intention to make the request as may be prescribed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After interviewing more than 50 witnesses and reviewing tapes and papers from the security services , Hamilton stated that " all credible evidence " suggested that George Bush had been in the USA on Oct. 18-22 , 1980 , when , as vice-presidential candidate , he was alleged to have flown to Paris to negotiate the deal with representatives from the revolutionary government of Iran . |
| 24 | Roderick Newall , 27 , was alleged to have confessed to his uncle at a Scottish hotel in July . |
| 25 | The one ‘ dreadful ’ home was thought to have contributed to the death of the man admitted there : |
| 26 | The total number in India was thought to have fallen to 2,500 , with perhaps another thousand elsewhere . |
| 27 | Joan Main was thought to have moved to South Wales after she disappeared , but despite a nationwide appeal for information the police have never tracked her down . |
| 28 | When John Profumo was found to have lied to the House this was a contempt . |
| 29 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 30 | The 12.9 per cent illiteracy rate in 1981 was admitted to have risen to over 20 per cent by the late 1980s . |