Example sentences of "to have be [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sent the script for one of the episodes — she has never said by whom — and was so enraged by one scene in which the councillor was to have been seen leaving a prostitute 's room doing up his trousers , that she sent it straight to the Postmaster General , the Minister responsible . |
| 2 | Others had already leaped boldly in the expectation that others would follow , that it would prove wise to have been seen to take the plunge first . |
| 3 | Nick , 36 , who works for theatre impresario Cameron Mackintosh , is reported to have been seen having lunch with Mariella Frostrup , the 28-year-old presenter of ITV 's video review programme The Little Picture Show . |
| 4 | The man , who was wearing a rucksack , is thought to have been seen running along the lane by motorists . ’ |
| 5 | When we turn from LETTERS to Sabbatical ( 1982 ) , the latter seems almost to have been written to put into practice the theoretical position laid down in ‘ The Literature of Replenishment ’ . |
| 6 | There is interest also in showing Christ in the past to have been conceived to have more feminine , indeed female , characteristics . |
| 7 | To make them indicate seasonal hours , either the rate of flow or the scale of hours had to be varied according to the time of year , and considerable ingenuity appears to have been applied to achieve this . |
| 8 | Around this time , Bruckner likened himself to a watchdog that had slipped its chain ; and four-square as much of the Study Symphony is , it conveys just that sense of a barely-checked yearning for the epic symphonic tussles that Bruckner seems to have been fated to undertake . |
| 9 | The fact that the pilot had clearly demonstrated his incompetence at instrument flying by failing to pass the instrument rating test no less than eight times before finally obtaining a pass must have meant that he was incapable of meeting the required standard on a regular basis and in the circumstances ought not to have been licensed to fly a public transport aircraft . |
| 10 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 11 | The six others to have been convicted had received fines and periods of probation and , in the case of Oliver North , a suspended prison sentence . |
| 12 | ‘ This is apparently against prison regulations , but little seems to have been done to enforce the rule . ’ |
| 13 | It is , no doubt , already familiar to all those attending this meeting , yet still little appears to have been done to overcome it . |
| 14 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 15 | Little seems to have been done to repair the various bridges and now , — " Ballinaby having presented to this Meeting an Estimate of a Bridge to be built upon the water of Saligo … |
| 16 | Yet not very much seems to have been done to make that wall unclimbable . |
| 17 | ‘ My dear Jane and friends , ’ he said , ‘ I am greatly privileged to have been asked to say a few words today . |
| 18 | A vacancy arose on the committee and I am proud to have been asked to fill it . ’ |
| 19 | Yesterday Lucas factory manager Colin Hull said the firm was delighted to have been asked to host a visit from the princess as a result of her expressing a wish to include an industrial stop on her stay . |
| 20 | It read : I am so glad to have been asked to become Royal Patron of the British Deaf Association . |
| 21 | I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances . |
| 22 | The manifesto was something he had been ‘ blessed ’ to work on , ‘ honoured ’ to have been asked to help with . |
| 23 | In one or two places railways were said to have been built to alleviate famine . |
| 24 | The jaw muscles turn out to have been placed to generate the most powerful bite possible , especially when Diatryma brought into play the powerful downwards hingeing action of the upper beak on the skull . |
| 25 | Simple instances , on the other hand , are those in which the clause seems to have been adopted to cover the eventuality that there may be some defect in the will so far as the civil law is concerned . |
| 26 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 27 | The blast appears to have been timed to coincide with a political offensive . |
| 28 | Draftsmen often use the word " independent " , as in phrases like " an independent valuer " or " an independent accountant " : the latter is used in the precedents in Appendix A. Sometimes this wording seems to have been intended to draw a distinction between expert determination and arbitration , as in the clause in the lease which was disputed in North Eastern Cooperative Society Ltd v Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 142 , where the parties were supposed to agree on " an independent surveyor " , and if they could not agree , the RICS was to appoint an arbitrator . |
| 29 | As you know , we were most disappointed not to have been invited to give our views on the above consultation paper earlier this year . |
| 30 | That tour to Australia is just one highlight in a busy itinerary for the Gala stand-off : ‘ I have had am ambition to play at the Hong Kong Sevens and was simply thrilled to have been invited to join the Irish Wolfhounds squad for this year 's tournament . |