Example sentences of "have [verb] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many people will have heard of the Bloxham Tapes .
2 BY NOW employees will have heard of the proposals in the White Paper on local government reform .
3 Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor
4 Certainly most members of the general public will have heard of the Draize test for detecting the irritant potential of cosmetics , or perhaps the more widely used LD50 , nor will they have been spared photographs of immobilised creatures in plaintive lines .
5 Perhaps , among the 75 per cent who may have heard of the CAB but have never sought assistance , there are many who would come to a bureau if they could .
6 Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that .
7 You may not have heard of the journalist or author concerned but that does not mean that they are not engaged on a bona fide testing programme or working on a first-class magazine feature .
8 Patients should be disabused of any notion they may have developed of the possibility of becoming invalids as a result of the heart attack .
9 When we survey the reception of Darwinism ( chapter 8 ) , we shall have to beware of the temptation to assume that the success of the selection theory in the twentieth century was built upon foundations established in Darwin 's own time .
10 One can not help imagining , however , what Jean Gabin and Marcel Dalio would have made of the roles .
11 When we were on Skye I thought I should have died of the irritation of them . ’
12 Captain Picard would have approved of the game , though , which was all very innocent .
13 Howard would have approved of the improvement in pay and conditions of service and greater emphasis on training but he might have been quite surprised at the eventual outcome of well-meaning initiatives .
14 Salvidge proposed to delete these insulting words but could not even find a seconder ; nine MPs were present , including Younger , Sanders and Neville Chamberlain , all of whom must have approved of the resolution or seen the futility of attempting to amend it .
15 He blamed his parents for being over-ambitious on his behalf ; a claim denied , said the prosecution , by his sister , who would have talked of the love and support of their parents .
16 Any romanticised impressions I may have had of the East End were quickly tempered if not dispelled by the striking images of endemic poverty and a sclerotic political culture .
17 I should n't have thought of the blinking . ’
18 How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ?
19 Still , doing these rather than the outstanding equipment performance reports means that he does n't have to use of the typewriter .
20 The Javanese dignitaries , who would have disapproved of the suggestion , were already stirring to depart in their jeeps for Makassar to catch their plane home .
21 Many churchmen may have disapproved of the practice ; but to those who flocked for cure , it was a proof of the king 's holiness , and a sign that Helgaud 's miracle-worker king had not been entirely forgotten .
22 The ethics of restoring material in this way can be endlessly debated ; the matter is complicated in the case of Don Carlos because Verdi sanctioned four versions , and no one can be sure he would have disapproved of the restoration of his Paris excisions .
23 The Magill reporter concluded that the County Council officials ‘ must have known of the existence of the tailings pond soon after it began ’ .
24 The justices found that the appellant must have known of the possibility that a breach of the peace was a probable consequence of her conduct , and that she was not unwilling that this should come about .
25 Presumably Shakespeare researched his play in Holinshed 's histories — but how could he have known of the eeriness of atmosphere available all around here ?
26 If the police could not prove that the accident was of such force and severity that the driver must have known of the accident , then the defence could put forward the saving in Harding v Price .
27 This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin .
28 With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks .
29 Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily .
30 Possibly de Moivre was one of Bayes 's teachers , so that Bayes may have learned of the problem directly from him , although he may equally have encountered it first in his writings or in the Observations on Man , His Frame , His Duty , And His Expectations ( 1749 ) by David Hartley [ q.v . ] .
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