Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , glider designers seem to have given up all-moving stabilisers in favour of a fixed tailplane and normal elevator . |
| 2 | He appears to have given up steady work . |
| 3 | The company thus boasts to have ironed out all the difficulties which can arise with such schemes . |
| 4 | He seemed to have let out sufficient steam and resentment for the moment and turned to flirt obligingly with a middle-aged woman who touched his arm in pleased anticipation . |
| 5 | The latest developer claims to have carried out extensive research into the feasibility of providing medical treatment in Darlington . |
| 6 | OH , what a stir was caused by Ghostwatch , the BBC Halloween programme which appeared to have conjured up evil spirits in a haunted house . |
| 7 | ‘ The visit , in view of the time allocated , was necessarily superficial and only likely to have picked up gross discrepancies , ’ it said . |
| 8 | Fortunately , after a visit to hospital he was found not to have picked up any poison . |
| 9 | Her visit to the Doctor seemed to have stirred up old memories , like sediment at the bottom of a pond . |
| 10 | The same day , the JNA bombed Ljubljana airport , causing the deaths of two Austrian journalists , and Slovenian troops claimed to have shot down six federal air force helicopters and one aircraft . |
| 11 | Iraq and the Mujahideen claim separately to have shot down one of the Iranian aircraft . |
| 12 | Shorts told the press : ‘ It is notable , even if regrettable , that the Argentine forces are believed to have shot down one Harrier GR3 and two helicopters with Blowpipe . ’ |
| 13 | Can you imagine it , to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity ? |
| 14 | A huge volume of Ferranti shares has changed hands since they returned to trading just over a week ago and a number of other potential bidders are believed to have built up small stakes . |
| 15 | He seemed to have slid over nearer to me , though I had n't seen him move . |
| 16 | Er we appear sort of miraculously to have got round all the other ones , er |
| 17 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 18 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 19 | Indeed one of the most compelling demonstrations of the elder 's power is his claim to have called down ancestral affliction upon a morally negligent member of his community . |
| 20 | Filgueira suggests that , since the major educational developments have taken place so recently , it may be too soon for them to have brought about greater reorganisation in society . |
| 21 | No oligarchy ever reforms itself willingly from within , and almost the only Areopagite with the necessary combination of prestige and radical views to have brought about such a reform is Themistokles . |
| 22 | Syrian troops are believed to have rounded up many militiamen in the Bourj Abou Haidar area , where the fiercest fighting erupted . |
| 23 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |
| 24 | But it was thought to have gone out unaltered . |
| 25 | The digesta version , contrary to its usual practice , seems to have struck out more unnecessary detail than the responsa , such as the lengthy description of the debts and the circumlocution referring to the time the will was made . |
| 26 | Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way . |
| 27 | Israel was reported to have stepped up military activity in the " security zone " in early October , including the shelling of villages and the overflight of Lebanese territory by the Israeli airforce . |
| 28 | Kuwait , for example , was only expected to have cut back half its pledged 400,000 bpd , maintaining production above its 1,500,000 bpd quota . |
| 29 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 30 | In one-day internationals he is the only bowler to have taken over 200 wickets , and his astonishing 175 not out against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup has been exceeded only twice — both times by Viv Richards — in limited-overs internationals . |