Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goldney garden , which appears to have developed to the whims and fancies of the women in the family , has the first two characteristics but not the last . |
| 2 | Furthermore we may appear , by using an epidemiological approach , to have added to the stigma of heroin use by comparing it with a ‘ disease ’ . |
| 3 | A fallacy of composition , involving the illegitimate transfer of microeconomic methods of analysis to macroeconomics , also appears to have added to the confusion . |
| 4 | In these cultures no great harm can be seen to have accrued to the children . |
| 5 | Two of Britain 's biggest fund managers are understood to have galloped to the rescue of beleaguered shareholders and will be lending their weight with proxy votes to scupper the controversial £113m takeover . |
| 6 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 7 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 8 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |
| 9 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 10 | There was likely to be more interest in a member of the family who seemed to have come to the boil than in Sara who would cost time and patience to bring to blood heat . |
| 11 | Mrs Gray seemed to have come to the end of what she wanted to say . |
| 12 | ‘ If they wanted to keep out of trouble they would n't have bothered to have come to the police station . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 14 | Had it been only the interests of traders that were being considered , there would have been no need for Britain to have responded to the competitive challenge of other European states by formalizing and expanding her own empire , with all that this entailed in provoking international tensions , arms expenditures , and general insecurity . |
| 15 | Some 3,000,000 workers nationwide were said by the organizers to have responded to the call . |
| 16 | The Allied artillery appeared to have moved to the south of Bavent and are concentrating their barrages during the hours of darkness , and the early morning , between three and four o'clock . |
| 17 | It should seem to have moved to the side . |
| 18 | Some 100,000 Germans from the five eastern Länder ( states ) in Germany were estimated to have moved to the western Länder in the three months following German unification [ see pp. 37826 ; 37829 ] . |
| 19 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 20 | Donegal Fine Gael TD Dinny McGinley is understood to have written to the Attorney General raising the case . |
| 21 | Donegal Fine Gael TD Dinny McGinley is understood to have written to the Attorney General raising the case . |
| 22 | Farah Aydid was reported to have agreed to the deployment of UN guards and unarmed observers , but had rejected the sending of armed soldiers . |
| 23 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |
| 24 | Subsequent re-opening to passengers on 11 December 1922 heralded a new era for the station and trade seemed to have awakened to the transport needs of the community . |
| 25 | Lawyers in the Environment Department are said to have drawn to the attention of senior staff that renewal of the contracts was in breach of community rules . |
| 26 | The corporation is understood to have appealed to the Department of the Environment to intervene . |
| 27 | This seems to have appealed to the Federal Commission because Mr Zecar came to Zagreb with the same proposition . |
| 28 | The UN , the US embassy in Khartoum and other foreign embassies were reported to have appealed to the government to halt the relocation programme . |
| 29 | The strain seemed to have got to the aged suspects . |
| 30 | Dido does n't claim to have got to the bottom of what she calls the Canine Predicament . |