Example sentences of "she is [verb] to have " in BNC.

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1 30.0 She is understood to have a nine-year-old daughter and worked with her sister at Neill 's newsagent shop in the Co Antrim village .
2 She is understood to have become ill at a party after unknowingly taking the illegal drug .
3 No works of art were produced by Miss Wise , nor was she heard of again after 1918 ; she is believed to have been one of the victims of the influenza epidemic of that time .
4 She is believed to have discovered his body when she walked into his bedroom at around 7.30am as usual .
5 She is believed to have a £4.2 million fortune based solely on French property she owned before her marriage to the tycoon .
6 And she is believed to have banked £10 million since being booted out of Downing Street two years ago .
7 She is believed to have had a heart attack at Dingle Bay , Co Kerry .
8 In 1905 she was appointed a member of the royal commission on the poor laws , where she defended the role of organized private charity against the bureaucratic socialism of Mrs Beatrice Webb [ q.v. ] ; she is believed to have drafted many sections of the majority report .
9 Following her husband 's death , she is said to have been given Weston Hall as a Valentine present by her father [ Sitwell , 5 ] .
10 At a meeting of a cabinet committee early last month , she is said to have ‘ kicked over the table ’ in consternation at the proposals .
11 Following the much trumpeted loss of her maidenhood , she is said to have undergone a test to determine whether or not she has AIDS , an ailment prevalent in that part of the world .
12 She is said to have shot Robert Staudinger , 27 , in the head twice .
13 She is said to have beaten the girl , torn up her clothes and locked her in a bedroom after finding nude pictures of her in Allen 's Manhattan flat .
14 She is said to have confronted the Queen 's private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes to tell him : ‘ If I discover my calls are being bugged , I 'm off . ’
15 She is said to have put on 5lb in one week while on an eating binge — and husband Larry Fortensky is ‘ delighted . ’
16 She is said to have been caught by a Post Office detector van at her home in Chelsea , West London .
17 She is said to have told the soldiers : ‘ What , only three of you ?
18 She is said to have turned him down but that rebuff did little to dampen his ardour .
19 Not surprisingly she is said to have complained that Louis was more like a monk than a king .
20 In Sarrance she is said to have written a part of her celebrated Heptameron , which is the French equivalent , even if frankly not the equal , of Boccaccio 's Decameron , a collection of seventy-two intermittently salacious stories .
21 She is said to have been ninety years old in 1849 .
22 She rejected Christianity : ‘ I do n't want to hear any more about that poor man , ’ she is said to have told her governess .
23 By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 .
24 She is said to have suffered horrific hallucinations since her drink was spiked with the dance drug ecstasy at a friend 's 21st birthday party in Liverpool ten days ago .
25 She is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners ’
26 The martial-law administrator , Crown Prince Saad , says that nobody will be expelled unless he or she is known to have collaborated with the Iraqis .
27 Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die .
28 One of her greatest supporters and confidants tells me : ‘ She did get half her power from her husband and without him she is going to have to work twice as hard .
29 If Diana thinks she can just try to have a normal Christmas without the boys she is going to have a very miserable day . ’
30 Here is an example of this Board School artistry : ‘ This [ pointing to a drawing of a girl ] is fanny Ives and she is going to have a smack in the Jaw for hitting Nellie Western . ’
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