Example sentences of "to have [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Regrettably , our ancestors of some thirty-five centuries back do n't seem to have given too much thought to posterity , by which I mean they left no records to satisfy their descendants ’ intellectual curiosity . |
| 2 | Ride do not seem to have developed very much since then , just quietly maturing into a dependable guitar band . |
| 3 | ‘ Dad is n't going to have to go away any more — he 's been made vice-president — gon na sit in an office all day right here in Tollemarche . ’ |
| 4 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 5 | Again , my aim is to have clarified as much as possible by the end of November , so we can bring it all together at the Senior Management Strategy Conference . |
| 6 | He did n't want to have to comment too much . |
| 7 | We had to have solved so much problems and I just this way and I just would n't have it you know it 's just impossible it 's impossible and I hummed and hawed which way and hummed and hawed which way . |
| 8 | Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals . |
| 9 | And , as I 've touched on that subject , as an engineer , I am glad to have seen so many ladies in the teams tonight ! |
| 10 | On the face of it , the Canadian legislation would appear to have done very little to tackle the issue of consent . |
| 11 | We were privileged just to be here ; to have attempted two new routes from this valley ; to have explored this unvisited glacier ; to have done all this with just one other person : a friend , a tent and a rope . |
| 12 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |
| 13 | If we were to say that the topic of this discourse fragment is ‘ the meaning of the expression ‘ smoke the houses ’ ' , we could not claim to have said very much of analytic interest . |
| 14 | He seems to have sought very little in return , apart from the satisfaction of knowing , in his own words , that he has ‘ benefitted society ’ . |
| 15 | They seem to have accepted both that ( a ) some interest payments had indeed — but for the special rules — stood to escape tax ; yet ( b ) the normal January 1986 tax payment covered liability for that fiscal year ‘ including tax on interest paid after the end of a society 's accounting year ’ — which was , ‘ in a sense , to tax [ those sums ] twice ’ . |
| 16 | To have saved so much from your stage success … ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , our understanding of the technique that is now used so widely and with such serious consequences seems to have made disquietingly little progress since the 1770s , when Franz Anton Mesmer first took Paris by storm with his new , bizarre technique . |
| 18 | Much relevant research has gone on since then , but it seems to have made very little impact upon the public debate about the ageing of British society . |
| 19 | Consequently , the figures do not appear to have risen as much as they actually have . |
| 20 | He is believed to have died there some time between A.D. 64 and 67 . |
| 21 | Leaders of some ECOWAS member countries were reported to have agreed privately that ECOMOG forces would be ordered on to the offensive should Taylor 's group renege on the agreement . |
| 22 | Despite widespread predictions of further unrest in the aftermath of 1981 , the scale and the location of the 1985 riots seem to have surprised even some of the most astute commentators . |
| 23 | Such a reading could well be found to have attributed too much to a recoil , a respite , a provisional position . |
| 24 | Yet , I always conclude , it might have seemed strange and unnatural to have shown too much feeling ; strange , and perhaps embarrassing and out of order , I being somewhat far down in the family hierarchy . |
| 25 | Blake and Bourke are supposed to have talked together each evening via two-way radios with Blake in his ground-floor cell and Bourke outside the walls . |
| 26 | Most of the destruction was caused by Iraqi sabotage , although allied bombing was reported to have ignited as many as 34 wells and to have damaged 13 of the country 's 18 oil-gathering facilities . |
| 27 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 28 | Surely it was enough to have got as much as she had . |
| 29 | In the same spirit , ISS drew attention to the importance of HMI work on ‘ areas of experience ’ which seem to have had so little influence on TNC . |
| 30 | William Beckford , Walpole 's successor as both Gothic novelist and builder , carried his imaginings too far to have had as much effect on either fact or fiction . |