Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have been , not because of the doctrine of estoppel ( which would have required either a deliberate misleading or negligence by her ) , but because of her signature on a document which , as was apparent on the face , was intended to have legal effect and which she had authorised the trader to complete . |
| 2 | To assist with these tasks each policy and resources committee was recommended to have four sub-committees : finance , land , personnel , and performance review . |
| 3 | These included Dr J.H. Clarke , chairman from 1918 — 31 , who was chief consulting physician to the Homeopathic Hospital in London , and was claimed to have some influence with the Conservative Die-hards in the 1920s ; Walter Crick , the Northampton boot manufacturer , who was vice-president from 1925 — 36 ; and Arthur Kitson , the inventor , currency reformer and entrepreneur who provided another link with manufacturing industry . |
| 4 | Terre Lliure , which was reported to have 60-100 members , had renounced its armed campaign on July 6 , as it negotiated integration with the ERC . |
| 5 | Miss Gregory was reported to have 150 grammes of heroin , carried internally in three condoms . |
| 6 | Admittedly , RDS , unlike Carfax , was designed to have many functions for home as well as in-car listeners . |
| 7 | Another patient was considered to have irritable bowel syndrome at the age of 54 years . |
| 8 | Born and educated in the city , but subsequently crowned with an Oxford MA and a Harvard MBA , Miss Forbes was considered to have exceptional abilities and was expected to go far . |
| 9 | Iraq 's invasion in August of Kuwait , and the Saudi Arabian government 's subsequent decision to invite coalition forces to defend the kingdom was expected to have profound effects on internal political and economic affairs . |
| 10 | The government in the 1930s saw the BUF as a nuisance which needed to be watched , but which was felt to have little impact on wider society and which suffered from grave internal weaknesses . |
| 11 | The emperor Jahangir , who ruled in the fifteenth century , was said to have 12,000 war elephants in his personal army and over 40,000 in his entire kingdom . |
| 12 | It was said to have two sets of strings only , at 8' pitch , and , on the evidence of its appearance , it was to be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 13 | Although the Revolutionary Command Council consisted exclusively of military men it was not devoted solely to military interests : Jallud , for example , was said to have strong support among the technocrats in the petroleum and development departments . |
| 14 | It was decided to have two selectors who have made significant contributions to contemporary art ; one artist and one critic . |
| 15 | It was decided to have 250 sets , each consisting of four postcards , printed . |
| 16 | But while Anselm was engaged in these researches , another definition of liberty was emerging , chiefly in the circle of Gregory VII , which was destined to have growing influence during the next hundred years and beyond . |
| 17 | Staphylokinase , a 136-aminoacid protein produced by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus , was shown to have profibrinolytic properties more than four decades ago . |
| 18 | It was agreed to have further meetings on the issue in advance of the US-Russian summit planned for June in Washington . |
| 19 | The feral Faenol or Vaynol herd of Bangor , North Wales , was of Scottish origin and was thought to have much Highland blood in it , but blood tests have disproved this ( though one animal was shown to have a trace of Indian blood from an experiment in the 1880s ) . |
| 20 | The animal was thought to have many tentacles and to spend most of its time sleeping . |
| 21 | Piano 's latest plan , produced in collaboration with the Soprintendenza of Verona , was thought to have more chance of success . |
| 22 | ‘ Urchin ’ is the Anglo-Saxon word for ‘ hedge-hog ’ , which , as its modern English name also implies , was thought to have some kind of affinity with pigs — undoubtedly because of the way hedgehogs snuffle and root . |
| 23 | As a result of HCIMA 's presentation to the Tourism Intergroup of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in November , the Association was invited to have direct representation on the board of management of the European Foundation for the Accredition of Hotelschools ( EFAH ) . |
| 24 | The patient was noted to have multiple skin cysts ( histology showed an epidermoid origin ) and osteomata of the skull . |
| 25 | One specimen was found to have 5,000 times the expected concentration of plutonium in its flesh . |
| 26 | When DDT was found to have carcinogenic properties it , too , was restricted . |
| 27 | There was the fictitious crisis involving tourists dying of food poisoning in Portugal , and another concerning a foreign minister who vanished without trace in Budapest , and there was the Chilean dope smuggler arrested in Miami who was found to have sixteen wives . |
| 28 | The chamomile was found to have antiviral properties that aid recovery from the viral infections that are a common cause of the diarrhoea which , in turn , causes the dehydration . |
| 29 | She was found to have total colitis on barium enema study . |
| 30 | In 1936 a patient , thought to be suffering from schizophrenia , was found to have abnormal activity in the EEG and then discovered to have a cerebral tumour . |