Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrests were widely believed to have inflicted a serious blow to the organization 's command structure and its ability to continue with its 22-year guerrilla war . |
| 2 | Aquino expressed her disappointment that , after an exhaustive legal process , the court had not directly implicated those , including the Marcoses , who were widely believed to have ordered the crime [ see p. 37716 ] . |
| 3 | The attacks coincided with an official visit by President Pierre Buyoya to France , and were widely reported to have been instigated by the exiled Palipehutu movement ( Parti pour la libération du peuple Hutu ) . |
| 4 | Aid workers in Somalia , including those with UN agencies , were widely reported to have been dismayed by the prospect of a US-led military intervention . |
| 5 | ‘ if it is demonstrated by reference to authority binding on this court , or by reference to clearly established principles of the common law , that the appellants were rightly held to have committed the actus reus of contempt of court , this court can not apply directly the terms of the Convention so as to reach a different conclusion . |
| 6 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 7 | Two , maybe three , parachutists were dubiously reported to have been sighted , but they were never heard of again . |
| 8 | You were only allowed to have it down to just below the bottom of your ears — which looked absolutely daft . |
| 9 | We were only going to have an hour together . ’ |
| 10 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 11 | They were so humiliated to have succeeded merely in killing unarmed children at the port — together with their incapacitated , grieving fathers — and in losing many , many of their tribe , that they set our boats on fire in a final gesture of spite . |
| 12 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 13 | The vigorous shower did not have any of the beneficial effects such things were generally said to have by public-school games-masters of a previous age . |
| 14 | The inability of the Fulton initiative to produce radical changes was only one of a number of administrative reforms which by 1979 were generally adjudged to have failed . |
| 15 | Looked like they were just going to have to get along with things the way they were until their time was up . |
| 16 | Another is that some guesses were quickly proved to have been wrong and ended up in bankruptcy . |
| 17 | And now we can be together again , and enjoy the life we were always meant to have . ’ |
| 18 | Relations between staff and management on the GWR were always thought to have been good , but the film calls that view into question . |
| 19 | Crewe are top of div 3 by 8 points , and had not lost for about 15 games , so were always going to have confidence , good organisation and scoring ability . |
| 20 | Several thousand new refugees were yesterday reported to have fled fighting near the town of Mostar . |
| 21 | Universities were genuinely held to have little legitimate right to say how this should be done . |
| 22 | Solomon and Rogachev were both reported to have expressed concern about China 's apparent volte-face over military assistance to the Khmers Rouges . |
| 23 | Telephone lines to the property were also said to have been cut . |
| 24 | In the course of a demonstration in Kinshasa , the capital , on May 14 , two training college students were reported shot dead and a further 15 wounded in a confrontation with security forces , five of whom were also said to have been wounded . |
| 25 | The engineers were also said to have become better dressed , improved in their conduct and manners and much less given to drink : " they are decidedly better men " . |
| 26 | Other NATO matters , such as the introduction of a multinational command structure with a European as supreme commander , and new ideas on changes which might enable France to rejoin NATO 's military command [ see below ] , were also understood to have been raised . |
| 27 | Argentina , Brazil , India and Nigeria were also understood to have favoured an enlargement of the Council 's permanent composition . |
| 28 | Separate allegations against Gates — suggesting that he might be implicated in illegal efforts to supply US arms and technology to Iraq via third countries such as South Africa and Chile — were also believed to have been made to congressional investigators and federal law enforcement officials . |
| 29 | Serious reservations were also believed to have been expressed by Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 30 | Most of the projects were also trying to have knock on effects , not just for their client group but for services which would benefit other people . |